Unable to swap plans during trial with Laravel Cashier Paddle

Question

According to Cashier docs, you should be able to swap Paddle plans while being on trial, moreover trial itself should be maintained:

To update the subscription plan for a user, you should pass the Paddle plan's identifier to the subscription's swap method (...) If the user is on a trial, the trial period will be maintained.

However, when I'm using swap method:

$user->subscription('default')->swap($planId);

I'm getting an error: LogicException: Cannot swap plans while on trial. (\vendor\laravel\cashier-paddle\src\Subscription.php:767)

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This turned out to be an error in documentation itself because Paddle API does not offer swapping subscription during trial.

Subscribers cannot be moved to a different plan while on a trialing state.

GutHub issue's closed.