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Working with multiple subscriptions

Create multiple subscriptions for a single customer by subscribing them to more than one product or different price of the same product.

Stripe offers the ability to simultaneously create multiple subscriptions on a single customer. This capability is useful when you want to make it possible for your customers to subscribe to multiple products with separate intervals. Each subscription has its own separate billing cycle, invoice, and charge—even if the underlying prices have the same billing interval.

If you want to create multiple subscriptions for a customer with a single billing cycle and invoice, you can combine multiple products in one subscription instead of using multiple subscriptions.

Create multiple subscriptions on a customer by using the same create subscription code:

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/subscriptions \
  -u sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc: \
  -d customer=cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a \
  -d "items[0][price]"=price_CZB2krKbBDOkTS

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/subscriptions \
  -u sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc: \
  -d customer=cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a \
  -d "items[0][price]"=price_CZB1AX3KOacNJw

# Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
# See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
Stripe.api_key = 'sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc'

sub1 = Stripe::Subscription.create({
    customer: 'cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a',
    items: [{price: 'price_CZB2krKbBDOkTS'}],
})

sub2 = Stripe::Subscription.create({
    customer: 'cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a',
    items: [{price: 'price_CZB1AX3KOacNJw'}],
})

# Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
# See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
stripe.api_key = 'sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc'

sub1 = stripe.Subscription.create(
  customer='cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a',
  items=[{'price': 'price_CZB2krKbBDOkTS'}],
)

sub2 = stripe.Subscription.create(
  customer='cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a',
  items=[{'price': 'price_CZB1AX3KOacNJw'}],
)

// Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey('sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc');

$sub1 = \Stripe\Subscription::create([
    'customer' => 'cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a',
    'items' => [['price' => 'price_CZB2krKbBDOkTS']],
]);

$sub2 = \Stripe\Subscription::create([
    'customer' => 'cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a',
    'items' => [['price' => 'price_CZB1AX3KOacNJw']],
]);

// Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
Stripe.apiKey = "sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc";

SubscriptionCreateParams params1 =
  SubscriptionCreateParams.builder()
    .setCustomer("cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a")
    .addItem(
      SubscriptionCreateParams.Item.builder()
        .setPrice("price_CZB2krKbBDOkTS")
        .build())
    .build();

Subscription subscription1 = Subscription.create(params1);

SubscriptionCreateParams params2 =
  SubscriptionCreateParams.builder()
    .setCustomer("cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a")
    .addItem(
      SubscriptionCreateParams.Item.builder()
        .setPrice("price_CZB1AX3KOacNJw")
        .build())
    .build();

Subscription subscription2 = Subscription.create(params2);

// Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
const Stripe = require('stripe');
const stripe = Stripe('sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc');

const sub1 = await stripe.subscriptions.create({
  customer: 'cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a',
  items: [{price: 'price_CZB2krKbBDOkTS'}],
});

const sub2 = await stripe.subscriptions.create({
  customer: 'cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a',
  items: [{price: 'price_CZB1AX3KOacNJw'}],
});

// Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
stripe.Key = "sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc"

items1 := []*stripe.SubscriptionItemsParams{
  {
    Price: stripe.String("price_CZB2krKbBDOkTS"),
  },
}
params1 := &stripe.SubscriptionParams{
  Customer: stripe.String("cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a"),
  Items: items1,
}
subscription1, _ := sub.New(params1)

items2 := []*stripe.SubscriptionItemsParams{
  {
    Price: stripe.String("price_CZB1AX3KOacNJw"),
  },
}
params2 := &stripe.SubscriptionParams{
  Customer: stripe.String("cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a"),
  Items: items2,
}
subscription2, _ := sub.New(params2)

// Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
StripeConfiguration.ApiKey = "sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc";

var items1 = new List<SubscriptionItemOptions> {
    new SubscriptionItemOptions {Price = "price_CZB2krKbBDOkTS"}
};
var options1 = new SubscriptionCreateOptions {
    Items = items1,
};
var service = new SubscriptionService();
Subscription sub1 = service.Create(options1);

var items2 = new List<SubscriptionItemOptions> {
    new SubscriptionItemOptions {Price = "price_CZB1AX3KOacNJw"}
};
var options2 = new SubscriptionCreateOptions {
    Customer = "cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a",
    Items = items2,
};
Subscription sub2 = service.Create(options2);

A customer can be subscribed to multiple products or even to a single product multiple times. Each subscription has a unique ID and its state is handled independently from the customer’s other subscriptions. Each subscription also has its own independent billing cycle, based on the billing cycle anchor of the subscription.

When a customer has multiple subscriptions, the Customer object’s subscriptions property provides a list of every subscription:

{
  "id": "cus_4fdAW5ftNQow1a",
  "object": "customer",
  "subscriptions": {
    "object": "list",
    "data": [
      {
        "id": "sub_9RRl3XywPg2P5H",
        "object": "subscription",
        ...
        "price": {
          "id": "price_CZB2krKbBDOkTS",
          "object": "price",
          "amount": 2995,
          ...
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "sub_9RRlIq2t9obFLI",
        "object": "subscription",
        ...
        "price": {
          "id": "price_CZB1AX3KOacNJw",
          "object": "price",
          "amount": 1295,
          ...
        }
      },
    ]
    ...
  }
  ...
}

Next steps

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