Preview Plan Change
Preview the effects of a subscription plan change before committing to it. Returns the immediate charge amount and the new subscription details without making any actual changes.
Use Cases
- Checkout confirmation: Display the prorated charge before customers confirm a plan change
- Pricing calculators: Build upgrade/downgrade calculators in your application
- Customer self-service: Let customers explore plan options with accurate pricing
- Discount validation: Preview how stacked discount codes affect the plan change pricing
discount_codes (an array of up to 20 codes, applied in order) in the preview request to see how the stacked discounts affect the immediate charge and new plan pricing before committing to the change. The singular discount_code field is deprecated but still supported for backward compatibility; we recommend discount_codes going forward.Response Fields
The preview response includes:Authorizations
Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.
Path Parameters
Subscription Id
Body
Unique identifier of the product to subscribe to
Proration Billing Mode
prorated_immediately, full_immediately, difference_immediately, do_not_bill Number of units to subscribe for. Must be at least 1.
x >= 0Whether adaptive currency fees should be included in the price (true) or added on top (false). If not specified, uses the subscription's stored setting.
Addons for the new plan. Note : Leaving this empty would remove any existing addons
Cancel the payment link of a pending plan change, so that this change can replace it.
The link is cancelled only if the customer has not started to pay. A
paid or in-progress payment gives a 409. A failed cancel gives a
503, and a retry is safe.
The request is validated before the cancel. A later failure, for example an amount below the minimum, leaves the subscription on its current plan with no open link. A retry is safe.
The preview route shares this request body and ignores this field.
Replace a scheduled plan change with this one.
The scheduled change is cancelled by the transaction that applies this change. A change that never applies leaves the schedule in place.
effective_at: next_billing_date is allowed. The new schedule then
replaces the old one in the request transaction.
A pending plan change still gets a 409. This field does not affect it.
The preview route shares this request body, so a preview that sets this
field also passes the scheduled-change 409.
Collect the plan-change amount with a payment link. The customer then pays on a checkout page.
The business needs the allow_plan_change_via_payment_link capability.
The request needs effective_at: immediately. The request also needs
on_payment_failure: prevent_change.
The preview route shares this request body and ignores this field.
DEPRECATED: Use discount_codes instead. Cannot be used together with discount_codes.
Stacked discount codes to apply to the new plan. Max 20. Cannot be used together with discount_code. If provided, replaces any existing discount codes. Empty array removes all discounts. If not provided (None), existing discounts with preserve_on_plan_change=true are preserved.
When to apply the plan change.
immediately(default): Apply the plan change right awaynext_billing_date: Schedule the change for the next billing date
immediately, next_billing_date Metadata for the payment. If not passed, the metadata of the subscription will be taken
Controls behavior when the plan change payment fails.
prevent_change: Keep subscription on current plan until payment succeedsapply_change(default): Apply plan change immediately regardless of payment outcome
If not specified, uses the business-level default setting.
prevent_change, apply_change The URL that receives the customer after they pay the payment link.
Needs collect_via_payment_link: true. Without it, the request gets a
422. A change that collects no money issues no link and does not use
the URL. The preview route validates this field but does not use it.
The redirect adds subscription_id, payment_id and status. The
status value is the status of the plan-change payment. It is not the
status of the subscription. When that payment fails, the subscription
stays active on its current plan. To try again, call this endpoint
again to get a new link. The new plan can apply after the redirect,
when the payment webhook arrives.