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foggy forgeBOT Oct 20, 2022, 6:53 PM

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fading forge Oct 20, 2022, 6:53 PM

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Hello! Starting up a thread for you

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If the price you're working with has aggregate_usage: sum then we allow for additional 5 minutes to account for clock drift (we talk about this here https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/usage-based#report), but if you're not using aggregate_usage: sum then there isn't a way to report usage retroactively

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crisp wigeon Oct 20, 2022, 7:00 PM

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I am using aggregate_usage: sum but what if within the 5 minutes duration, my background jobs will not be able to complete the computations and report the usage? Any suggestions for this case?

fading forge Oct 20, 2022, 7:02 PM

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There isn't any good way to retroactively correct the usage of a billing cycle that has already passed/ended - the only other solution I could think of would be to shift the billing cycle to be a few mi nutes in the future (so that you report usage for midnight Oct 1 - midnight Nov 1, but the Stripe billing cycle is for somethig like 1 AM oct - 1 am Nov 1). Does that make sense?

crisp wigeon Oct 20, 2022, 7:10 PM

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that makes sense, but if the no.of customers signing up for my product increases, the background job will be taking more time to report the usage, in which case I would have to shift the billing cycle again?

fading forge Oct 20, 2022, 7:10 PM

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Instead of reporting usage all at the end, can you report usage in batches to minimize the amount of time it takes at the end of the period?

crisp wigeon Oct 20, 2022, 7:11 PM

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yeah, I am already doing that by reporting usage every 6 hours

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but just thinking about the scalability

fading forge Oct 20, 2022, 7:14 PM

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Is the issue that you have to calcualte usage for all your subs at the start of the month? (I assume they all have the same billing cycle?)

crisp wigeon Oct 20, 2022, 7:29 PM

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Sorry for late reply, but to continue the conversation:

yeah right, all my customers will have the same billing cycle

fading forge Oct 20, 2022, 7:52 PM

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Yeah the only other thing I can think of is to have a large delay or maybe stagger your subscriptions so they don't end all at the exact same time

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