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slender stump
Hello 👋
How can I help? 🙂
Also, I am assuming you've read this doc already right?
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/upgrade-downgrade
radiant scarab
Yes, Already referred to the docs. But i still can't achieve the behavior that i want
slender stump
Can you elaborate on the behavior you're looking for?
radiant scarab
for the metered subscription I want it to be like this. but this is for the standard pricing subscription
here's the metered based subscription
slender stump
What have you tried so far?
radiant scarab
same as the standard pricing i tried the setting the proration_behavior: 'always_invoice',
slender stump
I think metered usage prorations work differently than standard pricing.. You can't show a whole amount as prorated amount as the total is calculated at the end of the billing period.
radiant scarab
I see "Prorations are created only for licensed (per-seat) subscriptions because they’re billed at the start of each billing period."
slender stump
yup
If you did want to differentiate and charge different rates depending on when the usage was added, you could do something this:
- Add a new subscription item for the new metered price (do not update the existing subscription item)
- Stop reporting usage for the original subscription item, and report all new usage for the new subscription item
- After the period is over and the invoice has been generated, delete the original subscription item
We won't calculate it automatically though
radiant scarab
I'll try this one. Thanks
slender stump
👍
radiant scarab
We won't calculate it automatically though
Is this for the total for the upcoming invoice?
slender stump
no, for the prorations. The total should be automatically calculated with reported usages.
sorry, I should've been more clearer 😅
radiant scarab
No worries. Thanks for the idea
radiant scarab
Hi again
@slender stump sorry for the ping.
for the flat fee should it be prorated?
slender stump
It should be yes but since we don't calculate prorations on metered sub at all, you'd likely need to add a negative invoice item to offset the flat fee
radiant scarab
what i did on this scenario is the customers subscription is premium and he had 20 usage for example. then he downgrade his subscription from premium to starter
radiant scarab
It should be yes but since we don't calculate prorations on metered sub at all, ...
what do you mean by negative invoice item?
slender stump
You can think of it as a one-time line item for the invoice
https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoiceitems
https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoiceitems/create#create_invoiceitem-amount
It allows you to add an amount (positive or negative) to offset the final invoice amount
late wolfBOT
radiant scarab
You can think of it as a one-time line item for the invoice
https://stripe.com/d...
I'll try this one first