POST /estimates/create_subscription
Generates an estimate for the 'create subscription' operation. This input will be similar to the Create Subscription API but no subscription will be created, but just an estimate will be generated.
Note:
- If you use the EU VAT tax option, you need to specify 'billing_address[country]' and 'customer[vat_number]' attributes for the tax calculation to happen. If these attributes are not passed, the tax will be ignored for this estimate.
- If you use the Customized Tax option, you need to specify the shipping address and billing address parameters for the tax calculation to happen. This is because Chargebee will use the customer's shipping address to determine the tax applicable. If the shipping address is not available, then the billing address will be used to determine tax. If both addresses are not available, tax will be ignored for this estimate.
Related Tutorial
- Check out this tutorial for when and how to use create subscription estimate API
Servers
- {protocol}://{site}.{environment}:{port}/api/v1
- {protocol}://{site}-test.{environment}:{port}/api/v1
Request headers
Name | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
chargebee-request-origin-device |
String | No |
The device from which the customer has made the request |
Content-Type |
String | Yes |
The media type of the request body.
Default value: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" |
chargebee-event-webhook |
String | No |
skip only webhooks Possible values:
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chargebee-event-actions |
String | No |
skip all actions to be done on the events Possible values:
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chargebee-request-origin-user |
String | No |
The email address of your customer/user. Use this when the email address has only ASCII characters. |
chargebee-request-origin-ip |
String | No |
The IP address of the customer where the request originated |
chargebee-request-origin-user-encoded |
String | No |
The Base64-encoded email address of your customer/user. Use this if the email address has UTF-8 characters. When this header is provided, the header |
chargebee-event-email |
String | No |
skip only emails Possible values:
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Request body fields
Name | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
shipping_address |
Object | No |
Parameters for shipping_address |
shipping_address.state_code |
String | No |
The ISO 3166-2 state/province code without the country prefix. Currently supported for USA, Canada and India. For instance, for Arizona (USA), set |
shipping_address.zip |
String | No |
Zip or postal code. The number of characters is validated according to the rules specified here. |
shipping_address.country |
String | No |
The billing address country of the customer. Must be one of ISO 3166 alpha-2 country code. Note : If you enter an invalid country code, the system will return an error. Brexit If you have enabled EU VAT in 2021 or later, or have manually enable the Brexit configuration, then |
customer |
Object | No |
Parameters for customer |
customer.taxability |
String | No |
Specifies if the customer is liable for tax * exempt -
* taxable - Computes tax for the customer based on the site configuration. In some cases, depending on the region, shipping_address is needed. If not provided, then billing_address is used to compute tax. If that's not available either, the tax is taken as zero. Possible values:
Default value: "taxable" |
customer.vat_number |
String | No |
VAT number of this customer. If not provided then taxes are not calculated for the estimate. Applicable only when taxes are configured for the EU or UK region. VAT validation is not done for this. |
subscription |
Object | No |
Parameters for subscription |
subscription.id |
String | No |
A unique and immutable identifier for the subscription. If not provided, it is autogenerated. |
subscription.start_date |
Integer | No |
The date/time at which the subscription is to start. If not provided, the subscription starts immediately. You can provide a value in the past as well. This is called backdating the subscription creation and is done when the subscription has already been provisioned but its billing has been delayed. Backdating is allowed only when the following prerequisites are met:
|
subscription.plan_id |
String | Yes |
Identifier of the plan for this subscription |
subscription.coupon |
String | No |
The id of the coupon. For validating the coupon code provided by the user , use the following codes in combination with the param attribute in the error response.
|
subscription.trial_end |
Integer | No |
The time at which the trial ends for this subscription. Can be specified to override the default trial period.If '0' is passed, the subscription will be activated immediately. |
subscription.plan_quantity |
Integer | No |
Plan quantity for this subscription Default value: 1 |
addons |
Object | No |
Parameters for addons |
addons.id[] |
Array | No |
Identifier of the addon. Multiple addons can be passed. |
addons.quantity[] |
Array | No |
Quantity of the addon. Applicable for addons with |
billing_cycles |
Integer | No |
Number of cycles(plan interval) this subscription should be charged. After the billing cycles exhausted, the subscription will be cancelled. |
billing_address |
Object | No |
Parameters for billing_address |
billing_address.state_code |
String | No |
The ISO 3166-2 state/province code without the country prefix. Currently supported for USA, Canada and India. For instance, for Arizona (USA), set |
billing_address.zip |
String | No |
Zip or postal code. The number of characters is validated according to the rules specified here. |
billing_address.country |
String | No |
The billing address country of the customer. Must be one of ISO 3166 alpha-2 country code. Note : If you enter an invalid country code, the system will return an error. Brexit If you have enabled EU VAT in 2021 or later, or have manually enable the Brexit configuration, then |
How to start integrating
- Add HTTP Task to your workflow definition.
- Search for the API you want to integrate with and click on the name.
- This loads the API reference documentation and prepares the Http request settings.
- Click Test request to test run your request to the API and see the API's response.