Preview Subscription
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The Chargify API allows you to preview a subscription by POSTing the same JSON or XML as for a subscription creation.

The "Next Billing" amount and "Next Billing" date are represented in each Subscriber's Summary. For more information, please see our documentation here.

Side effects

A subscription will not be created by sending a POST to this endpoint. It is meant to serve as a prediction.

Taxable Subscriptions

This endpoint will preview taxes applicable to a purchase. In order for taxes to be previewed, the following conditions must be met:

Taxes must be configured on the subscription
The preview must be for the purchase of a taxable product or component, or combination of the two.
The subscription payload must contain a full billing or shipping address in order to calculate tax

For more information about creating taxable previews, please see our documentation guide on how to create taxable subscriptions.

You do not need to include a card number to generate tax information when you are previewing a subscription. However, please note that when you actually want to create the subscription, you must include the credit card information if you want the billing address to be stored in Advanced Billing. The billing address and the credit card information are stored together within the payment profile object. Also, you may not send a billing address to Advanced Billing without payment profile information, as the address is stored on the card.

You can pass shipping and billing addresses and still decide not to calculate taxes. To do that, pass skip_billing_manifest_taxes: true attribute.

Non-taxable Subscriptions

If you'd like to calculate subscriptions that do not include tax, please feel free to leave off the billing information.

POST /subscriptions/preview.json

Authentication

This endpoint requires BasicAuth

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Responses

200

Content Type:

application/json

Type

Subscription Preview Response

{
  "subscription_preview": {
    "current_billing_manifest": {
      "line_items": [
        {
          "transaction_type": "charge",
          "kind": "baseline",
          "amount_in_cents": 5000,
          "memo": "Gold Product (08/21/2018 - 09/21/2018)",
          "discount_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "taxable_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "product_id": 1,
          "product_handle": "gold-product",
          "product_name": "Gold Product",
          "period_range_start": "13 Oct 2023",
          "period_range_end": "13 Nov 2023"
        },
        {
          "transaction_type": "charge",
          "kind": "component",
          "amount_in_cents": 28000,
          "memo": "Component name: 14 Unit names",
          "discount_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "taxable_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "component_id": 462149,
          "component_handle": "handle",
          "component_name": "Component name"
        },
        {
          "transaction_type": "charge",
          "kind": "component",
          "amount_in_cents": 2000,
          "memo": "Fractional Metered Components: 20.0 Fractional Metereds",
          "discount_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "taxable_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "component_id": 426665,
          "component_handle": "handle",
          "component_name": "Fractional Metered Components"
        },
        {
          "transaction_type": "charge",
          "kind": "component",
          "amount_in_cents": 0,
          "memo": "On/Off Component",
          "discount_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "taxable_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "component_id": 426670,
          "component_handle": "handle",
          "component_name": "On/Off Component"
        },
        {
          "transaction_type": "adjustment",
          "kind": "coupon",
          "amount_in_cents": 0,
          "memo": "Coupon: 1DOLLAR - You only get $1.00 off",
          "discount_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "taxable_amount_in_cents": 0
        }
      ],
      "total_in_cents": 35000,
      "total_discount_in_cents": 0,
      "total_tax_in_cents": 0,
      "subtotal_in_cents": 35000,
      "start_date": "2018-08-21T21:25:21Z",
      "end_date": "2018-09-21T21:25:21Z",
      "period_type": "recurring",
      "existing_balance_in_cents": 0
    },
    "next_billing_manifest": {
      "line_items": [
        {
          "transaction_type": "charge",
          "kind": "baseline",
          "amount_in_cents": 5000,
          "memo": "Gold Product (09/21/2018 - 10/21/2018)",
          "discount_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "taxable_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "product_id": 1,
          "product_handle": "gold-product",
          "product_name": "Gold Product"
        },
        {
          "transaction_type": "charge",
          "kind": "component",
          "amount_in_cents": 28000,
          "memo": "Component name: 14 Unit names",
          "discount_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "taxable_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "component_id": 462149,
          "component_handle": "handle",
          "component_name": "Component name"
        },
        {
          "transaction_type": "charge",
          "kind": "component",
          "amount_in_cents": 0,
          "memo": "On/Off Component",
          "discount_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "taxable_amount_in_cents": 0,
          "component_id": 426670,
          "component_handle": "handle",
          "component_name": "On/Off Component"
        }
      ],
      "total_in_cents": 33000,
      "total_discount_in_cents": 0,
      "total_tax_in_cents": 0,
      "subtotal_in_cents": 33000,
      "start_date": "2018-09-21T21:25:21Z",
      "end_date": "2018-10-21T21:25:21Z",
      "period_type": "recurring",
      "existing_balance_in_cents": 0
    }
  }
}

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Request

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Request Examples

Product Only

curl -X POST \
  --url 'https://subdomain.chargify.com/subscriptions/preview.json'  \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "subscription": {
    "product_handle": "gold-product"
  }
}'

Preview Subscription#