Laravel cashier : how to get plan name or id?

Question

I have 8 stripe plans. 4 monthly + 4 yearly. like

plan_one.monthly
plan_one.yearly
plan_two.monthly
plan_two.yearly
plan_three.monthly
plan_three.yearly
plan_four.monthly
plan_four.yearly

and here is user subscription row

id -> 1
user_id -> 1
name -> Plan-One Monthly
stripe_id -> sub_xxxxxxxxxx
stripe_plan -> plan_one.monthly
quantity -> 1
trial_ends_at - null
ends_at - null
created_at - datetime()
updated_at - datetime()

In this situation how can i get user active/current subscription plan name?

Answer 1

The subscription method on Billable trait setup to return the last row. So if one billable entity only has one active subscription on your app, this works just fine:

$user->subscription('default')->stripe_plan;

tested on laravel 5.6 / cashier 7.1

Answer 2

I'm late to the party but I was looking for a similar solution, in my case I only allow the user to have one subscription at a time but I wanted to programmatically fetch the users active subscription without looping through the available subscriptions, reading the laravel docs more throughly I found what I needed using subscription scopes.

$user->subscriptions()->active()->first();

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/billing#subscription-scopes