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Subscription Generators
Call Stripe from anywhere on the internet to set up the ongoing retainer for your services with your clients
How it runs
3 triggers
Form, CRM stage or booked call
Step 01
One webhook takes all three
Step 02
Find or create Stripe customer
Step 03
Create sub: delay, trial, prorate
Step 04
Confirm to Slack
Outcome
Sub ID written to client record
What it is
One endpoint that creates the right Stripe subscription, with the correct start date, trial handling and proration, triggered from wherever your process actually starts.
You need this if retainers get set up by hand in the dashboard, start dates drift, trials get keyed wrong, and the money you're owed depends on someone remembering.
If your billing is already tight, the subscription now starts on the same event as the work, so you never deliver unpaid weeks.
The actual build
What it does for you
Billing starts on the same trigger as delivery
so you stop giving away the first week of every engagement.
Hand-keyed subscription setup disappears, and that's where start dates, trials and proration quietly go wrong
The subscription ID lands on the client record
so payment status is visible next to the work rather than in another tab.
Built and running
School of Bots and Your Social Currency
LiveAt SoB the Stripe subscription gets created automatically once the onboarding call is booked, with trial handling and delayed start built in. YSC got multi-currency routing across UK and Dubai entities for international billing, part of the build behind helping them grow the team from 6 → 18 members and scaling from six figures → seven figures.
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