smirolo
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5 years ago Thank you for the question. There is an auto_renew in the Plan model and an auto_renew in the Subscription model. When a subscriber (i.e. Organization instance) subscribes to a Plan with auto_renew == True, a Subscription with auto_renew == True is created.
The manage.py renewals command calls saas.renewals.extend_subscriptions(at_time). The algorithm looks for all Subscription with auto_renew == True that are also ending within a day of at_time and extends those, creating a Transaction in the process that later is used to create a Charge in saas.renewals.create_charges_for_balance.
The idea behind manage.py renewals and all other complexities in the code base usually have to deal with making sure that running the script a second time with the same at_time will not create unintended charges, etc.
I will keep this issue open until this gets merged into the documentation.
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Hi, Thx for ur work on this saas app. I am also working on handling subscription stuff now and ur app really helps a lot. I have a question that how do u realize auto renew, is there any configs to set? Previously, I used celery to create scheduled tasks to check it daily. I read the document that u also run cronjob daily with renew commends but do not explain how it is implemented in detail. Thus I raise this issue here.