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mystic templeBOT Oct 5, 2022, 5:08 PM

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hidden berry Oct 5, 2022, 5:08 PM

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Hi there

obsidian sun Oct 5, 2022, 5:08 PM

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heyo! 👋

hidden berry Oct 5, 2022, 5:09 PM

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So you are looking to rely on the initial Price that is added to determine what other Prices should also be added to the Subscription?

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Is that correct?

obsidian sun Oct 5, 2022, 5:09 PM

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Basically, we want to make sure we have a single source of truth for what a Plan includes, as well as ensuring that we can easily grandfather clients when we update what a Plan costs, or how many of X or Y should be included

obsidian sun Oct 5, 2022, 5:10 PM

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hidden berry So you are looking to rely on the initial Price that is added to determine what ...

Close but not quite - the other prices we look up using the lookup key for each product

hidden berry Oct 5, 2022, 5:10 PM

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When you are using the term Plan here are you referring to a Stripe Plan object? Or just using that generally?

obsidian sun Oct 5, 2022, 5:11 PM

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(generally 🙈 )

hidden berry Oct 5, 2022, 5:11 PM

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Just want to clarify, as Plans are the legacy object for Prices

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Okay thanks

obsidian sun Oct 5, 2022, 5:11 PM

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let's say "Basic" at this point in time includes 10 API Calls or whatever, we want to generate usage records when the amount of API Calls exceed 10

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but tomorrow we might want "Basic" to include 15

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we could create a hard-coded object in our backend that maps the various price id's to included usage, but then we'd need to deploy new code before transferring the lookup key of the new plan price

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sorry for the noobing here. perhaps it's better to have a table in our database with this information, using the price id as a key

hidden berry Oct 5, 2022, 5:14 PM

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Yep so mostly you would track this in your own Database

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Yep exactly

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You can use metadata as well if you like

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To help align your data

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But really I'd recommend tracking this consistently on your end

obsidian sun Oct 5, 2022, 5:15 PM

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gotcha. that's good advice!

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thank you for the quick and helpful replies 🙂

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