Get start and end date of current billing cycle

[noah_haub]

Hi,

Im currently building an App that charges the user based on how many orders they get in one billing cycle.
To do that I need to know how many orders they received during the current billing cycle.

My thinking is this: Get the start and end date of the current billing cycle -> Get the orders during these dates.

But I do not know how to get the start and end date of the current billing cycle.

Is there some way to do this?

Would really appreciate your help.

Kind regards,

Noah

[ChaseKaneki]

Hello @noah_haub !

Yes, you can use the subscription billing cycle query. You can add any of the SubscriptionBillingCycle attributes for the response(cycleStartAt and cycleEndAt). 

Hope that helps!

[noah_haub]

Ah perfect thank you very much man! I didn't see that because I mostly use the REST API.

So thank you!

[noah_haub]

@ChaseKaneki is the subscription billing cycle used for customers of stores or for customers of apps?

Because to use the subscription billing cycle query, I need a subscription contract.
And to create a subscription contract, I need to include things like delivery address etc.

Also this query is under the "orders" tab.

What I need is the start and end cycle of the users of my app, not the customers of a store.

Did I understand the subscription billing cycle query wrong?

[noah_haub · Accepted solution]

I have sort of found a workaround.

What I am doing to get the start and end date of the current billing cycle is this:
- Get the currently active subscription (field needed: billing_on)

- I use the billing_on date as the end date of the current billing cycle

- I use the billing_on - 30 days as the start date of the current billing cycle (Because my billing interval is "EVERY-30-DAYS")

[danhho]

Hi @noah_haub, I have a question whether the billing_on field will be updated if shopify successfully pays the old invoice in recurring plan?
Example my current billing_on is 2023-09-05, and 30 days pass and they are charged again, now billing_on will update to  2023-10-05?