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Deprecated Methods
Create a subscription
POST

/api/subscriptions/add/

X-API-KEY*
Authorization*
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.uselotus.io/api/subscriptions/add/ \
  --header 'Authorization: <authorization>' \
  --header 'X-API-KEY: <x-api-key>' \
  --data '{
  "customer_id": "<customer_id>",
  "start_date": "<start_date>"
}'

A subscription associates one of your customers with one of your billing plans. You can define multiple subscriptions of the same plan for a single customer by using the subscription filters.

lotus.create_subscription(
  customer_id='cust_0569173ee6654369',
  plan_id='premium_plan_7ui9op',
  start_date='2020-01-01',
)

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Authorizations

Authorization[header]required
string

Token-based authentication with required prefix "Token"

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Body

auto_renew
boolean

Whether the subscription automatically renews. Defaults to true.

customer_idrequired
string

The id provided when creating the customer

end_date
string

The date the subscription ends. This should be a string in YYYY-MM-DD format of the date in UTC time. If you don’t set it (recommended), we will use the information in the billing plan to automatically calculate this.

is_new
boolean
plan_id
string

The Lotus plan_id, found in the billing plan object. This field has been deprecated in favor of version_id for the sake of being explicit. If used, a best effort will be made to find the correct plan version (matching preferred currencies, prioritizing custom plans), but if more than one plan versions matches this criteria this will return an error.

start_daterequired
string

The date the subscription starts. This should be a string in YYYY-MM-DD format of the date in UTC time.

subscription_filters
array

Add filter key, value pairs that define which events will be applied to this plan subscription.

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Response

addonsrequired
array
auto_renewrequired
boolean

Whether the subscription automatically renews. Defaults to true.

billing_planrequired
object
customerrequired
object
end_daterequired
string

The time the subscription starts. This will be a string in yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss format in UTC time.

fully_billedrequired
boolean
is_newrequired
boolean

Whether this subscription came from a renewal or from a first-time. Defaults to true on creation.

metadatarequired
object
start_daterequired
string

The time the subscription starts. This will be a string in yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss format in UTC time.

subscription_filtersrequired
array
subscription_idrequired
string