How to check user generic trial

[laravel]

How to check user generic trial

[driesvints]

Being on trial isn't the same as being subscribed. You're not paying at that time. This is just a difference of opinion. You can make combinations of the existing methods in userland to accommodate for your use case.

[yoeriboven]

If I understand your issue correctly, I had the same last week.

$user->subscribed() returns true if you have an active subscription or are on a trial attached to a subscription. It returns false if the trial is generic.

Personally, I think this should also look if a generic trial is active.

[driesvints]

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[yoeriboven]

Hi Dries, I disagree although OP might have worded it like that.

In my app I'm doing quite often something like this:

if ($user->subscribed() || $user->onGenericTrial()) {}

Just to see if they are allowed to do something since both subscribers as well as people on a trial are considered subscribed.

Don't you think $user->subscribed() should also return true if the user is on a generic trial?

If not, do you advice doing the if-statement as above or something different?

[driesvints]

We don't consider people being on trial to be subscribed.

[goranculibrk]

@driesvints your answer that you don't consider users on trial to be subscribed. My logic is the opposite of that, while they are on trial, users should have the access to all features, without the need to ask for the card upfront.
@yoeriboven I'll give it a try with your way, but I think I'll end up with adding trial field to the users table with default to true so new users will be always on trials and to set it to false on SubscriptionCreated or SubscriptionPaymentSucceeded events.