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[fathom current]

Hello

You are using Direct Charges on Standard Accounts?

[low dirge]

Yes

[fathom current]

And when you say "pass on to the customer" you mean the end-customer correct? So you would increase the amount by that much so the end-customer covers it

[low dirge]

correct

[fathom current]

Gotcha

[low dirge]

exactly

[fathom current]

So you basically want to use a formula like we show here: https://support.stripe.com/questions/passing-the-stripe-fee-on-to-customers

But yeah, adding a line item based on that calculation would be correct

You did say "custom checkout" but you are talking about line items... are you using Stripe Checkout?

[low dirge]

yes

correct

[fathom current]

Then yep

[low dirge]

Ok so we just add a line item when creating the checkout with "Processing fee" and the price being the result of the calculation?

[fathom current]

Yep, you can do it inline using price_data

https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-line_items-price_data

[low dirge]

great, and will this create a product in the customers stripe everytime we send it?

Because we sync all of the products to use the appropriate stripe_id to prevent duplication

[fathom current]

It will, but it should create an archived product if you use product_data and create a new Product if I remember correctly.

[low dirge]

So wait, what should the appropriate approach be? Should we create a product for "Processing fee" and use that over and over again? Because we dont want to have thousands of "Processing fee" products in the account

[fathom current]

Yeah it mostly just depends on what you want. But that is likely how I would do it. Just have a Product ("Processing fee") created where you create in line Prices for it based on the Price amount

[low dirge]

hmmm... I wonder how we would do this without having to create a product on our end since we sync everything

ah i have an idea

ok, thank you Bismarck