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misty eagleBOT Oct 19, 2022, 4:43 PM

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lethal hare Oct 19, 2022, 4:43 PM

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shra1-invoice-oneoff

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Hello @outer kayak I'm sorry but I don't see what this could mean. If you create an Invoice manually, we will attempt payment for that Invoice now, not later when the next cycle comes in. What are you really trying to do?

outer kayak Oct 19, 2022, 4:58 PM

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what i'm trying to do is,
my customer will subscribe for X number of seats for monthly period. and in between the next billing cycle if number increases i'll update the subscription without any prorations, since i'm plannig to charge full amount for newly increased number by generating Invoice, now can I generate this Invoice and make its payment collection when stripe auto collects for recuring bill ?

lethal hare Oct 19, 2022, 4:59 PM

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that doesn't really make sense

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why would you disable proration?

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like I pay $10 on Oct 1st, and on Oct 30 I decide to add a second person and now I pay $20 when that second person only used a day of the month? It doesn't really add up as a business model

outer kayak Oct 19, 2022, 5:00 PM

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in our case it is only $1,

lethal hare Oct 19, 2022, 5:00 PM

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it's the same though $1 or $100 or $10k

outer kayak Oct 19, 2022, 5:01 PM

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but we want to collect full amount

lethal hare Oct 19, 2022, 5:02 PM

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sure but I'm saying it doesn't make sense

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obviously it's your business model, but as a customer, I'd never use you at least

outer kayak Oct 19, 2022, 5:03 PM

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is that achievable ?

lethal hare Oct 19, 2022, 5:04 PM

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I'm sorry I still barely grasp what you are trying to do. If you could give a clear example of what is paid when that would help

outer kayak Oct 19, 2022, 5:14 PM

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okay here we go, let's assume John subscribes for 10 seats(monthly) for his team on 1st March,
in between 1st march to 1st april, his team might keep increasing, so we will keep the count of increased members of team in our database, let's assume count as 6.
and we have enabled susbcription schedule trigger a day just before next Auto collect, so that we can generate invoice for 6 added members and collect payment for the invoice aswell along with recurring payment(tell me if this is possible ?).
and we'll also update the subscription quantity to 16. and we'll reset the count(6) to 0 so that invoice is not generated again unless new members are added.

outer kayak Oct 19, 2022, 5:31 PM

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anybody ?

humble shard Oct 19, 2022, 5:44 PM

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Apologies for the wait. The server is busy. I'm taking a look now

outer kayak Oct 19, 2022, 5:44 PM

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no problem

humble shard Oct 19, 2022, 5:47 PM

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and we have enabled susbcription schedule trigger a day just before next Auto collect, so that we can generate invoice for 6 added members
Why would you use a Subscription Schedule for this? Why not simply use a metered billing subscription plan and charge in arrears based on total number of seats?

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https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models#usage-based-pricing

Recurring pricing models

Learn about common pricing models and how to create them.

outer kayak Oct 19, 2022, 6:05 PM

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is this Post collection approach ?

humble shard Oct 19, 2022, 6:06 PM

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Yes. This charges at the end of the billing period

outer kayak Oct 19, 2022, 6:13 PM

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how do we start this with API, can you please help with relevant docs and examples

humble shard Oct 19, 2022, 6:16 PM

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I would start here: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions?ui=elements

Once you have a Subscriptions model set up this way, then it's not too hard to modify it so that it follows this usage-based guide: https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models#usage-based-pricing

outer kayak Oct 19, 2022, 6:30 PM

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thank you, i'll just look into this and get back if I have any issues

outer kayak Oct 19, 2022, 6:46 PM

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guide me here, now my customer starts subscription(by making payment) with 10 users for example, and 6 new users are added in between,
how to collect the full charge for these 6 new users added

humble shard Oct 19, 2022, 6:47 PM

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You would update the usage to indicate that the Subscription now has 16 instead of 10

outer kayak Oct 19, 2022, 6:50 PM

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yeah i'll update that, but it'll only collect payment for 16 users for next cycle,
and in previous cycle when ever they have joined in between, they'll be charged nothing(technically they'll have used the application free for some x, y, z number of days respectively)

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