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In the Stripe API Documentation, they show that you can apply a coupon on a Customer.
cust = Stripe::Customer.retrieve("cus_asdasdad")
cust.coupon = "COUPONCODE"
cust.save
However, you can also apply a coupon on a Subscription:
cust = Stripe::Customer.retrieve("cus_asdasdad")
sub = cust.subscriptions.retrieve("sub_blablabla")
sub.coupon = "COUPONCODE"
sub.save
What is the difference between the two? Essentially, I'd like to give a customer $15 off their next subscription charge, and only the next one.
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In the Dashboard on the Create a coupon page, click the Use customer-facing coupon codes button. Enter a code. This is the code that a customer enters at checkout to redeem the discount. If you don't set a code, Stripe generates one for you.
When using the Stripe Payments Plugin coupon codes can be created where the discount amount is 100%. This means that the customer will not need to pay for the product.
Promotion codes are customer-facing codes created on top of coupons. You can also specify additional restrictions that control when a customer can apply the promotion. You can share these codes with customers who can enter them into Checkout to apply a discount.
Checkout. Promotion Codes is a Stripe Billing and Checkout feature which enables you to generate customer facing codes which can be redeemed to apply a coupon to an order. Promotion Codes have advanced validation features which allow you to specify when and on what orders the codes can be redeemed.
To make a coupon that can only be used once set the max_redemptions property to 1.
With regard to your question, the difference is that applying the coupon to the Customer will apply the discount to the sub-total of the Invoice created for that Customer. Meaning that if the Invoice includes a Subscription and multiple InvoiceItems, then the discount will be applied to the sum of all of them.
Conversely, applying the coupon to a Subscription only means the discount will be applied to the cost of the Subscription only. Other InvoiceItems within the Invoice will not be discounted.
Won't make a difference if the Coupon is a "20 dollars off" type, but it will if it's a "20% off" kind.
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A coupon applied to a customer will apply to all future invoices and/or subscriptions, even if the coupon has expired, dependent upon how you set the duration attributes for the coupon.
A coupon applied to a subscription will only apply to that specific subscription.
The duration attribute will determine how long this discount will apply, either once, repeated, or forever.
The max_redemptions attribute limits the the total number of coupons that you are willing to honor, e.g. the first 100 customers.
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