#vitalij-subscription-metered
neat vessel
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What we are trying to do is have a subscription which have bother metered usage and unit based product in one subscription and pay invoices in arrears both for metered usage and unit based usage.
bronze pivot
Gotcha. Still looking to see if there's a way..
tepid mango
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Can you clarify what the first invoice would look like ideally?
Like you want to defer the first invoice to the end of the initial billing cycle and then charge for both metered usage and a per-unit cost for that previous billing period?
neat vessel
Yea exactly that so if the first billing period is June 1 - June 14, we would like to take automatic payment on June 14 th for both metered usage and per-unit cost at that point.
tepid mango
At what point will you know the per-unit amount? Like you know that up front (which is why you don't want to use a usage-based concept for that too)?
Mostly there is no way to defer the initial invoice of $0. What you want to do is just update the Sub to add the per-unit Price to your Sub after it is created and set proration_behavior: none when you do this so that there aren't proration charges generated. Then going forward the Sub will cycle with both the metered and per-unit Prices.
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neat vessel
We do know the usage upfront, as this is per day usage
tepid mango
Yep makes sense, but you don't want to charge that on Subscription creation, correct?
mint zealot
vitalij-subscription-metered
what's the problem with the first Invoice though? It's $0 and you can hide it
neat vessel
True we could filter it out, I just wonder if I missing a config where we can control at what point do we invoice for various products
mint zealot
no that's not possible, we always create an Invoice upfront
neat vessel
Gotcha, we will just filter it out.