Subscription Metric Effective-Date Crosswalk

Tie subscription metric movements to source effective dates instead of mixing event, invoice and payment timestamps. Preparation only, not an account action.

What to provide

Subscription IDs; change events and effective dates; metric definition; invoices/payments dates; observation cutoff/timezone.

How it works

1. Choose the supplied metric date basis explicitly; retain all original timestamps.
2. Map each movement to that basis and identify events effective beyond cutoff.
3. Keep invoice and cash dates visible but do not substitute them for metric dates.
4. Return reconciled movements and held unknown effective dates; no subscription or billing change.

The output

subscription | event_time | effective_time | invoice_time | cash_time | metric_basis | included_period | hold

Worked fictional example

Fictional plan change loggedOct 8 but effectiveNov 1 stays outside anOctober effective-date metric. PaymentOct 9 does not move the change intoOctober; missing effective time is held.

Checks and limits

Keep source versions and original values. Unknowns stay unknown. Use qualified review for regulated, legal or hiring decisions. No live account compatibility test, send, share, schedule, ledger change or payment is authorized.

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Method: reviewed source. Demand lead: Oct8 live GSC through Oct5: marketing copilot 37 impressions, Planable/Claude 33 and Planable/ChatGPT 23, campaign brief 12 and reports 11. Marketing/social topics follow these parent-query leads; other professions follow method-source workflow needs, not exact query measurements. Exact monthly volume is unmeasured. Checked October 8, 2026.