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mossy joltBOT Feb 20, 2023, 2:06 AM

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sonic flame Feb 20, 2023, 2:07 AM

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When the users set their own price, does the amount remain the same for the future cycle, or will it change?

olive dome Feb 20, 2023, 2:08 AM

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It may change

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So, given that there may be many different types of transactions, I was thinking that it might make more sense to have users add cards (currently I've set up a button to create checkout sessions in setup mode), and we'll keep track of their balance in our app and bill it once it hits a certain threshold or after a certain amount of time.

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But I wanted to make sure that there was no existing stripe functionality to do this where I can send an event each time a transaction occurs and have Stripe do the math for me?

sonic flame Feb 20, 2023, 2:12 AM

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we'll keep track of their balance in our app and bill it once it hits a certain threshold or after a certain amount of time.
If you're referring to this as whether there's any such kind of existing functionality in Stripe, then no.

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Stripe billing is always running on fixed period

olive dome Feb 20, 2023, 2:13 AM

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

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This is what led me to think there might be some such functionality

sonic flame Feb 20, 2023, 2:14 AM

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Oh wait! Let me think about this

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Have you given it a try whether this will fit your case?

olive dome Feb 20, 2023, 2:17 AM

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One issue I foresee with using subscriptions / billing / metered usage / usage thresholds is that to support the "pay-what-you-want-per-unit" model, we would have to programmatically create a price for each user when they choose

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And if they change their price, I guess we'd have to cancel their old subscription and start them on a new one with the new price?

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I also see that I can issue customers credit balances

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https://stripe.com/docs/billing/customer/balance

sonic flame Feb 20, 2023, 2:22 AM

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And if they change their price, I guess we'd have to cancel their old subscription and start them on a new one with the new price?
Prices can be updated using Subscription Update API: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/upgrade-downgrade#changing

olive dome Feb 20, 2023, 2:22 AM

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Would that affect everybody using that same price?

sonic flame Feb 20, 2023, 2:23 AM

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For every different amount, a new Price (object) should be set, so it won't affect existing Prices

olive dome Feb 20, 2023, 2:25 AM

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So, I could have a large set of prices — one at $1.50/unit, one at $2/unit, etc — and switch people's subscriptions between them? And then I just report usage as typical to Stripe through the metered usage billing solution

sonic flame Feb 20, 2023, 2:26 AM

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Yup!

olive dome Feb 20, 2023, 2:27 AM

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Perfect. I think that answers my questions for now! Thanks again for the help :)

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