what options do you have in the manage subscription page

hey there thanks for responding

it redirects me to stripe, this is the menu

renew plan just reactivates the hobby plan

does it give you an option to renew with the credit plan?

nope, it just shows this when i click it

i didnt see any option for a credit plan

interesting

well I'm out of ideas, I'll flag the team for you and they will get back to you on a workday

ok sure thank you, so on monday the august 1st i assume railway will pull down my app as the payment failed?
nvm thats tuesday

but question, how where you able to subscribe to the usage based developer plan with your card?

railway accepted the card

and i was under the $5 limit

so it never charged me

heroku for example rejected my card on the spot, which is why i switched to railway

right but if railway accepted the card what makes you think payment would for sure fail?

it is a policy implemented by the RBI (reserve bank of india)

it doesnt not allow automated payments without an AFA (additional factor of authentication)

is this a visa or mastercard?

VISA

i found this in railway help

so i assumed my RBI card wont work when aug 1st rolls around

it doesnt work on all such automated payments services

I have seen people from India say they've used their visa card on railway

I don't think it hurts to try, right?

uh yeah sure, i dont mind the monthly automated payments

its just that IF it doesnt work, i would like to have prepaid as a backup i can rely on when aug 1st comes

the automatic payment based plan is honestly the way to go anyway

if it doesn’t work, you can buy credits

if the transaction fails you’ll get an email and you’ll have a day or two to buy credits

and if you miss that window the team will reenable your account and help you through the credit process

oh really? it will give you the option to buy credits even on the usage based plan?

oh so i can buy credits after i get that email? There's no option within the website itself in advance?

it should, just cancel the usage plan and join the credit based

we couldn't find the flow to accomplish that

hm

that’s a question for the team then

indeed

but in the mean time, try your visa anyway

yup

I would email billing@railway.app now and explain the situation

get them to move you over to credit based

good idea!

ok thank you so much, ill do that right away

Leaving this for anyone seeing this in the future:
After you cancel your hobby plan subscription, it won't give you the option to enable a prepaid plan until the beginning of the next month
After the month ends, when you have to choose a plan, it presents an option for prepaid in small grey text
After you make your first payment, you can restock on credits whenever on the Usage tab.

Thanks for leaving this here, was looking for this answer for hours.
Though it makes sense technically that the option would appear in the turn of the month, I find it quite inconvenient/confusing - why not give the option to jump back in with the credit-based plan right after you cancel your previous one?
(Apparently I'll have a very short window in the first week of next year to sort that out…)

we now have docs for this! -

!s