# SubscriptionBillingAttempt - Failures on free orders

**URL:** <https://community.shopify.dev/t/subscriptionbillingattempt-failures-on-free-orders/15329>\
**Category:** GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting\
**Tags:** general-gql-troubles\
**Created:** [May 15, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://community.shopify.dev/t/subscriptionbillingattempt-failures-on-free-orders/15329 "2025-05-15T08:27:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![brett\_single](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@brett\_single](https://community.shopify.dev/u/brett_single)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://community.shopify.dev/t/subscriptionbillingattempt-failures-on-free-orders/15329/1 "2025-05-15T08:27:36Z")

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Our use case involves yearly subscriptions with free products shipped out to members on a monthly basis. Our process was to make a billing cycle edit for the month, add the free item along with free shipping, remove the original product, and commit the changes. We then submit a billing attempt for the $0 billing cycle, which in turn creates the $0 order in shopify.

Starting May 1, the free billing attempts began failing with error code “amount\_too\_small” and message “Amount must be at least $0.50 usd”. Nothing about our process has changed in months. We have had no issues submitting these $0 billing attempts until now. It seems like something has changed in shopify’s contract billing system that causes it to actually trigger a charge instead of skipping charging the user’s payment method on $0 orders.

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**Author:** ![KyleG-Shopify](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shopifycommunity/user_avatar/community.shopify.dev/kyleg-shopify/32/6799_2.png) [@KyleG-Shopify](https://community.shopify.dev/u/KyleG-Shopify)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.shopify.dev/t/subscriptionbillingattempt-failures-on-free-orders/15329/3 "2025-05-15T17:17:13Z")

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Hey @brett_single,

We can take a look at that change in behavior. I’m assuming you’re using the [subscriptionBillingAttemptCreate](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/subscriptionbillingattemptcreate) mutation?

Can you share the API version you are using and if possible, the request id from the response that returned the error?

UPDATE: Looks like another developer has reported this here. If you can, keep an eye on that thread for updates

> [@SubscriptionBillingAttempt - Failures on free orders](https://community.shopify.dev/t/subscriptionbillingattempt-failures-on-free-orders/14868/6):
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> Hey @josephtaylor waving_hand - just confirming that we’re looking into this as a potential bug on our end now and are currently investigating. Still can’t guarantee a turnaround time, but we’re triaging this now on our end. Wanted to touch base just to give you an update here.