Can not assign free plan

[sil2]

I created FREE plan with type ONETIME and price 0.00, on_install = 1

On my app install no plans getting assigned. By trying to call billing/1 (1 is my free plan ID) I'm getting RequestException

Client error: POST https://###.myshopify.com/admin/application_charges.json resulted in a 422 Unprocessable Entity response: {\"errors\":{\"price\":[\"must be greater than or equal to the equivalent of $0.50 USD\"]}} at /###/vendor/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Exception/RequestException.php:113)

I try to set plan to RECURRING, same error,

I added SHOPIFY_BILLING_FREEMIUM_ENABLED = 1, same :(

What I see from the code,

Traits/BillingController.php(52) index method calls GetPlanUrl()

Actions/GetPlanUrl.php(82) calls

Services/ApiHelper.php(265) createCharge() method

runs API request to create a new charge with 0 price (in my case)

$response = $this->doRequest( ApiMethod::POST(), "/admin/{$typeString}s.json", [$typeString => $payload->toArray()] );

throws this error.

I see 0 logic to avoid to create charges for free plans.

How come?

Can you help pls? What I'm missing here?

Should I do no calls for billing for free plans? How to assign my free plan then?

How on_install should work for free plan?

Laravel 10.28, "kyon147/laravel-shopify": "^19.1.0",

This issue is related to 0 price plan only. All my other plans works well.

btw, doRequest() method can return $response['body'] not as a string but array. 'Unknown error' is not a best way to see what's really going on here.

// Request error somewhere, throw the exception
            throw new ApiException(
                is_string($response['body']) ? $response['body'] : 'Unknown error',
                0,
                $response['exception']
            );

in my case, as you can see the body is

"body":{"price":["must be greater than or equal to the equivalent of $0.50 USD"]},

[nandpalmohit]

In the free plan, there's no requirement to add Shopify billing. The best idea is to follow one process outlined in your free plan to access an app.

[sil2]

Thanks for the quick response. this is exactly what I was going to do if I didn't get advice from you. There is one nuance. If I start processing the free plan myself, the request for billing/1 will still throw an error.

According your documentation here https://github.com/gnikyt/laravel-shopify/wiki/Creating-a-Billable-App

If you plan on creating a "free" recurring plan, and only utilizing usage charges, then you must set the plan's price to 0.00, set the capped_amount and the terms for Shopify to accept the 0.00 charge through the API.

This become all wrong. Shopify API require price to be > $0.5 US.

I can assign price_id = 1 on new user create, but there will be no charges in the DB and shopify API will have no idea about charges and plans for this user. As the result -> non of your logic will work.

Second....

idea of setting shopify_freemium =1 for the user is not the best too because Ill need to handle future plan updates for this user somehow manually, also.

it is all on you, but i would reccomend to update your logic and bypass new charge creation if price = 0 but just assign the plan

[Kyon147]

@sil2 try setting the capped amount to 0.00 I think they updated it to not allow a capped amount at 0.

When I create a monthly recurring free plan, this is what I do.

[Kyon147]

Closing this for now but reopen if my suggestion does not work

[cyberkishor]

@sil2 let's use my solution works https://github.com/Kyon147/laravel-shopify/issues/258 ;)