How does uninstalling the Subscriptions plugin affect Stripe billing?

[MarkDoerr]

@RBoy

Can you elaborate on this, it’s not clear - when you say uninstall this plugin, what exactly does that mean?

Does that mean remove it from app.yml, rebuild and then take the site offline? If the site is offline, then plugin won’t be running so how’s that different from uninstalling the plugin?

Yes, to uninstall the plugin, you’d need to remove it from your app.yml file then rebuild the app. At that point the site is running, but the plugin is no longer installed/available.

If the site were offline, sure, the plugin wouldn’t be running but then neither would the site. Is that what you’re trying to accomplish?

@RBoy

Why would I need to uninstall this plugin if the subscription runs independently on strip’s cloud?

While subscriptions are maintained in Stripe, a benefit of the plugin is that subscribers are added/removed from Discourse groups automatically based on their subscription status. You could do that manually if you want, but the plugin makes it far easier to manage.

@RBoy

If I may suggest an enhancement, it would be cool to have an option to “Cancel all subscriptions” (with appropriate warnings and double confirmations) which can be a one click solution to taking the site offline.

Thanks for this. We’ll keep that in mind for future feature development.