hakan_-invoice-number

[dusk kernel]

Hi 👋 no, it's not possible to trim the leading zeroes off the suffix of the automatically generated invoice numbers.

[sleek warren]

yeah thats the worst, in european its not possibel to change the prefix within a year just in a different format

its illegal to do that

stripe is absolut zero compliant with european companies... i cant believe it

[dusk kernel]

I'm sorry could you elaborate a bit, you keep referring to the prefix of that string, but the number portion is in the suffix. Am I misunderstanding something?

[sleek warren]

yeah my invoice numbers are currently this

software-300

and stripe forces me to make

software-0300

[sleek warren]

??

• I saw when someone signed up for a subscription stripe sends me the amount immediatly to my bank account. Can I stop stripe doing that?

[dusk kernel]

If you're referring to disabling automatic payouts, then yes you can turn that off and move to a manual payout approach as explained here:
https://stripe.com/docs/payouts#manual-payouts

[fervent dew]

@sleek warren
To reassure you, software-0300 is a valid invoice number in Europe, even if you started your invoices without leading zeroes this year.
You can still refer to this invoice as invoice #300.
The only requirement you have is invoices numbers to be unique (or to correct them if they weren't).

[sleek warren]

still its not really compliant to change just company prefixes

im woundering why stripe is doing that, its super basic requirements

[sleek warren]

how can I do that over the dashboard

[fervent dew]

What's your Company Prefix ?

[sleek warren]

STACKET-300 was it

stripe changed it to

STACKET-0300

[fervent dew]

In Europe, your prefix would be considered "STACKET" only

So STACKET300, STACKET0300, STACKET-0300, STACKET-300 are all valid 😄

[sleek warren]

still, even its valid my friend, stripe changes the original prexix which is bad 🙂

im just saying im saving the invoices into my database, now all the structure is broken because its a 0 within the invoice number now

migrated to stripe before using paypal

[sleek warren]

@fervent dew how can i do that over dashboard

[fervent dew]

Not that much of a deal breaker, you should have had the leading zero before, it's clearer for your customer

Let me give you the link 😉

https://dashboard.stripe.com/settings/payouts

Here

[sleek warren]

still i dont want that 🙂 i want my original one

[fervent dew]

You can change the automatic delay, or set to manual. I recommend using Automatic due to accounting in Europe being shit with bank transactions.

[sleek warren]

but stripe forces companies which is bad from a user perspective

you should take that as feedback you will also see european other companies in future 🙂 they will come and complain about this

[sleek warren]

defintily not automatic, my bank charges me each transaction 🙂 i would get poor with automatic

[fervent dew]

I'm not from support, I have a European company too, it wasn't that much of a problem, it was clearer even for us in accounting

Wait, they charges you for incoming transactions ? What is this bank lol

[sleek warren]

you not from stripe ? im confused

[fervent dew]

Also, if you aren't using the Invoice API, you can generate the invoices yourself and still uses your default prefix

[fervent dew]

Yes, I'm just a customer, I like to come here and help a bit, I learn a bit too lol

[sleek warren]

weird thougth you are from stripe

still bad 😄

im in germany here its super strict everything

even its valid people dont like that

a zero can destroy everything

its a change definitly

but looks like i need to live with it

[fervent dew]

haha let me present to you french accounting lol

[sleek warren]

nah 🙂 germany is top 1

[fervent dew]

still prefers germany to france tho'

here you refunded customers ? you better be ready for tax control next week

[sleek warren]

??

[fervent dew]

Yeah France is trash when it's about money transfers

I refunded a customer 20% of his invoice because he didn't wanted something anymore, no problem by me. Tax control the week because "oh but, you need to edit refund notes and notify blablablabla"

[sleek warren]

try to refund nothing