How to create discounts for app subscription when using managed billing via API?

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Hey! I sell my app for X$ and I want to give people a 10% off that use a discount code that I give them. How do I achieve this with managed subscriptions and billing.

I see I can do this from the UI, but how can I do it via graphql API?

It seems the only way is to create a discount after the subscription has already been created?

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Hey @Nikola_Milovic

Currently, with managed subscription billing, you can only create discounts through the Partner Dashboard as you’ve discovered, and that’s after the subscription has already been created.

To implement discount codes that give 10% off during subscription creation, you’d need to switch to the subscription billing API instead of managed billing. With the subscription billing API, you can apply discounts when creating subscriptions exactly as you’re looking to do.

I’ll make sure to pass this feedback along to our billing product team. It’s a solid feature request to have discount code functionality with managed billing subscriptions at creation time.

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Thanks for the swift reply. We already had our own billing setup but then decided to opt for a simpler solution with the managed billing system. I guess we’re going back to the previous implementation. Hopefully this will get supported in the future

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To give users 10% off on your app’s managed subscriptions using the GraphQL API:

  1. Create a discount code that applies a 10% discount to subscriptions.
  2. Apply the discount when users subscribe by passing the discount code.
  3. Verify that the discount has been applied by checking the subscription details.
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Could you share the graphql documentation for these steps you mentioned? (except the last one, that is the query to get the appSubscription). @Kinz_Bollim