est3ban129
Well-known member
Hello XenForo Community,
I'm looking for the best way to offer trial periods for my paid user upgrades using Stripe as the payment gateway.
My goal is to allow a user to sign up for a premium user group, get a 7-day free trial, and then be automatically billed by Stripe after the trial ends unless they cancel.
I have successfully set up Stripe within XenForo, and I'm familiar with creating standard User Upgrades. In my Stripe dashboard, I have already created a subscription product with a trial period configured.
However, my issue is connecting this to XenForo. When I go to Admin Control Panel -> Users -> User Upgrades to create or edit an upgrade, I can't see any native option to enable a "trial period". The settings only seem to allow for a recurring payment that starts immediately, not a trial that converts to a paid subscription later.
My questions are:
I'm looking for the best way to offer trial periods for my paid user upgrades using Stripe as the payment gateway.
My goal is to allow a user to sign up for a premium user group, get a 7-day free trial, and then be automatically billed by Stripe after the trial ends unless they cancel.
I have successfully set up Stripe within XenForo, and I'm familiar with creating standard User Upgrades. In my Stripe dashboard, I have already created a subscription product with a trial period configured.
However, my issue is connecting this to XenForo. When I go to Admin Control Panel -> Users -> User Upgrades to create or edit an upgrade, I can't see any native option to enable a "trial period". The settings only seem to allow for a recurring payment that starts immediately, not a trial that converts to a paid subscription later.
My questions are:
- Is there a way to integrate Stripe's trial functionality directly with the native User Upgrades system that I might be missing?
- If this isn't possible natively, what is the standard or recommended method for achieving this? I assume it requires a third-party add-on.
- Could you please recommend any specific, reliable add-ons that handle Stripe subscriptions and trials well? I've seen some eCommerce solutions mentioned, but I'd appreciate hearing about your experiences with what works best for this specific use case.
