#hakan_-change-invoice

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open nimbus
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Hello 👋
Not sure what you mean by live invoice numbers into test mode
Can you give me more details about what you're looking at?

hollow wagon
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lets say for example i have

mysoftware-0001 as next invoice number in live

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invoice being sent out so far so good

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now, I want to test my stripe integration again and I see in my test mode then mysoftware-0002 ?

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or can I change within test mode to mysoftware-test-0002 the prefix order

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so for all invoices in test mode it will be mysoftware-test and then the number

tawny sentinel
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👋 stepping in as hanzo had to step away

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This isn't possible.

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You can only determine whether the number will be sequential per your account or per customer.

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You can't control the prefix of the invoice number

hollow wagon
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thats bad because thenmy accountants would need to handle even the test invoices...

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which means i cant proper test

tawny sentinel
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Why would they need to handle test invoices?

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No need to reconcile test data at all

hollow wagon
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cause i am in germany

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its required to save even test data here

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its pretty common in europe you know

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we cant determine even if its a test invoice or live

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also what is not good

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because the number prefixes are the same

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what also is missing that this is for * invoices, what when I have 5 saas instead of 1 ? what do I do then?

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basic features that are missing 😦

hollow wagon
tawny sentinel
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It is easy to differentiate between test and livemode data.

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Based on how you retrieve it and store it.

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There is no reason you should be mixing up testmode and livemode data in terms of reconciliation.

hollow wagon
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which is = bad

tawny sentinel
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What does that mean... "forces"?

hollow wagon
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pretty bad

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what if I have 5 saas and I want to have for example

mysoftware-a-001

mysoftware-b-001

that will not be possible which is terrible to be honest

stripe forces me to make

mysoftware-all-001
mysoftware-all-002

hollow wagon
tawny sentinel
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How are you ingesting your data?

hollow wagon
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what you mean

tawny sentinel
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How are you intaking your data and storing it in your database?

hollow wagon
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from webhoos

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webhooks

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but is that important to know?

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im talking about invoices from stripe

tawny sentinel
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Yes it is important. Because you then use that to determine that an invoice is in testmode or livemode

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Because you webhook handler dictates that based on whether it is a testmode or livemode endpoint

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So when you store the data from your webhook you should indicate that it is a testmode or livemode invoice

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And that differentiates

hollow wagon
tawny sentinel
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There is really no reason that should be the case

hollow wagon
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i see, i can switch between test and live mode and see different invoices, okay that is somehow good so far

hollow wagon
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i dont understand why

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at least I have that kind of seperation, but what if I want to have seperate invoice prefixes for different software?

tawny sentinel
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As I noted, we don't currently support custom invoice numbering.

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There is a feature request in already for it. And I do hope it will be built in the future!

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But we don't currently support it.

hollow wagon
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I must say those kind of things are basic requirements, its not even a advanced thing like for managing invoices

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its super general that you have a seperate invoice prefix for different sotware

hollow wagon
tawny sentinel
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You can contact our Support team (https://support.stripe.com/contact/login) if you want to be kept up to date on when this is released. There is nothing external about it at the moment since it hasn't been built yet.

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