tomas at amenitiz

[fair tangle]

Don't think that's possible, confirming

[sterile hamlet]

I've tried issuing the invoice as such, snippets using the Ruby SDK:

Stripe::InvoiceItem.create(invoice: "in_1MmD1wIsA9C1ybP08o0KmVyV", customer: "cus_KfRRXDSpUuy0oC", amount: 6000, description: "asd")

Stripe::Invoice.pay("in_1MmD51IsA9C1ybP0CM9OM137", { paid_out_of_band: true })

[fair tangle]

I suspect you may need to temporarily increment the balance amount

[sterile hamlet]

I don't want the balance discount to reflect on the invoice though, so I imagine I need to:

• Get the balance amount and store it
• Set it to 0
• Issue the invoice
• Set the balance amount back to what it was

(the examples I sent was with a balance amount of 4000 cents, not 20000). The invoice ended up being for 2000 cents; when what I need is an invoice for the full 6000 cents; and the balance to remain unchanged. Don't know if I'm being clear with my use need

I'll wait, please don't close me 😄

[fair tangle]

Then yep, that's the workflow you'll need to implement

[sterile hamlet]

Beyond race conditions, is there any other side effect I could introduce doing this? The balance is just some "store credit" I extend to my customers, but there's no real movements of funds, right?

I mean obvious side effects, I realise managing the complexities of a transaction is actually my job

[fair tangle]

The only time (AFAIK) Stripe automatically increments/decrements that balance is for prorations. And correct, there's no actual funds associated to it

[sterile hamlet]

Last question, this one is a lot simpler

What's the endpoint to change this balance? 🤦‍♂️

[fair tangle]

https://stripe.com/docs/api/customer_balance_transactions

You can't just mutate it directly, needs to be an associated transaction to increment/decrement

[sterile hamlet]

Oh, I get it, thanks

So this won't have any other side effects either, no? Like issuing a pair of opposite balance transactions should result in no changes to the balance state (aside from logging the transactions)?

[fair tangle]

Correct

[sterile hamlet]

Thanks! Apparently I can do it updating the customer directly too: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/update

You've been really helpful, my doubts are clear

Thank you very much, have a nice day 🙂