Day 2: Multi-Interval

If you've ever tried to offer a plan which has multiple billing intervals (eg. an annual base fee + some monthly usage fee), you know how janky implementation can get on Stripe

You have to hack around to create separate subscriptions for each billing cycle, then manage each of those and the whole thing becomes a headache.

The idea with this next launch is that we’ll handle all the headaches, and you simply create a single product on our platform comprising of both your annual and monthly fees!

How it works

To get started, all you need to do is create your annual and monthly price under the relevant product in Autumn — that’s all :)

But how do we handle this under the hood? Well, once you’ve /attach -ed the product to your customer, we basically create and manage 2 separate subscriptions on Stripe for each billing cycle. Take the example in the image above, it would translate to the following:

Additional notes:

1. Any upgrades / downgrades, whether it’s from annual to monthly or annual to annual, are all handled by Autumn

2. We treat the 2 subscriptions as one, so for instance if your user were to try cancel the monthly part of their billing, we’ll automatically cancel the yearly one too

Here’s what one of our customers has to say about this feature 😊

I spent a week revamping the billing flow for a monthly and yearly plan + usage on top, and I wish we could have discovered Autumn earlier. I ended up removing 80% of the billing code and swapped it completely to Autumn. The founders are so helpful that we migrated all of our customers and events data in just two days. And I never have to think about billing again. I wish this was built right into stripe!