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shell radishBOT Oct 10, 2022, 6:16 PM

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ocean palm Oct 10, 2022, 6:16 PM

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Hi there

latent turtle Oct 10, 2022, 6:16 PM

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hi

ocean palm Oct 10, 2022, 6:16 PM

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Can you provide a specific example that you are testing with and explain what you would like to happen

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Then I can see if it is possible and if there is any workaround

latent turtle Oct 10, 2022, 6:17 PM

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sure yep, I got to example customers I can link if that helps, not sure if you can view data in my test account, or I can post screenshots

ocean palm Oct 10, 2022, 6:17 PM

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Yep an example Subscription would be perfect

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The Subscription ID I mean

latent turtle Oct 10, 2022, 6:19 PM

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sure yep, so first this is the "normal" scenario, the subscription has not been discounted; the base price is $21 and additional units cost $1

sub_1LpibiAlWOZ9EtFQVDFSJ4zC

so in this case we did a prorated upgrade right at the start of the and it charged the customer $1 as expected (for both the first and second invoice)

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and this is the "problem" scenario

same sub and pricing, but this time when the customer purchased the subscription, they had a one-off discount of 99% applied, and the second invoice charges them $21.79 after a prorated upgrade, because the time remaining is only counted as $0.21, we would expect it to also charge $1

sub_1LpJCKAlWOZ9EtFQgEaDFusw

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so invoice in_1LpJDwAlWOZ9EtFQxliqJUJG specifically is what I am having trouble with

ocean palm Oct 10, 2022, 6:22 PM

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Gotcha

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Okay so yeah proration will always take the discount into account. If you don't want that to happen, then the workaround here is to preview the proration for the upcoming invoice using https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/upcoming where you would not have a discount set (you pass coupon with an empty strting). Then you create a one-off invoice item for that amount, and perform the Subscription update with setting proration_behavior: none.

latent turtle Oct 10, 2022, 6:25 PM

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ah ok

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ok just one more thing if you dont mind, i cant quite see it in the API docs

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is there a way to tell if a customer/last invoice has had a one-off discount applied?

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cos ideally we would only want to do this in that scenario as all the other scenarios work perfectly for us

ocean palm Oct 10, 2022, 6:29 PM

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Yep, if you are setting coupons at the Customer level then you either retrieve the Customer and check the discount object: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/object#customer_object-discount. Or you retrieve the Subscription and expand the latest_invoice: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-latest_invoice

latent turtle Oct 10, 2022, 6:29 PM

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ok awesome, thanks so much for clearing that up for me. Very much appreciated

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