Initial billing attempt is not happening

Retired Boards Appdev Subscriptions
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Hi,

I have a subscription contract that Shopify created for me from a Selling Plan with the following billing policy:

"billingPolicy": {
  "anchors": [],
  "interval": "MONTH",
  "intervalCount": 1,
  "minCycles": 3,
  "maxCycles": 12
},

This comes from a selling plan with only a simple fixed pricing policy:

"pricingPolicies": [
  {
    "__typename": "SellingPlanFixedPricingPolicy",
    "adjustmentType": "PRICE",
    "adjustmentValue": {
      "amount": "12.95",
      "currencyCode": "EUR"
    },
    "createdAt": "2022-09-16T10:17:52Z"
  }
]

From the subscriptions documentation, I’d expect Shopify to create an initial billing attempt for me (and my app would have to create subsequent attempts). However, it appears this isn’t happening:

"lastPaymentStatus": null,
"billingAttempts": {
  "edges": []
},

Any help for debugging this? How can I find out why no billing attempts were created?

Thanks,

Martijn

2

According to this answer, there is no billing attempt for the initial order. This directly contradicts the Shopify.dev docs (in several places):

After the transaction and order are created, Shopify generates a subscription contract and creates a billing attempt on the initial purchase.

I guess I’ll just check the originOrder’s payment status then, though.