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[toxic gale]

You'd use a Coupon/Promotion code configured to reduce the cost by 40% for a single interval: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/discounts#configure-a-coupon

[devout onyx]

thanks, is there a way to do it without coupons? We're trying to do this for referrals, where every user has a token generated for them that they can share (we store it in our backend). If a user signs up using the token, the discount should be applied for their first billing cycle.

I don't think that's a job for coupons, as we also want to affect the referrer account, but maybe I'm wrong, and we should generate a stripe coupon for each user

[toxic gale]

Hmm, that would be the recommend way to do it. Another way would be to use the Customer Credit balance, but that's reflects a specific monetary value as opposed to a % discount

[devout onyx]

you'd recommend a referral system using coupons? A coupon for each user, or in the backend we automatically apply a "REFERRAL" coupon or something?

[toxic gale]

I think that'd be the best way specifically for Checkout, yes. Alternatively you could have a separate Price object that would be reduced 40% that you'd subscribe to, but then you'd need to 'upgrade' that the the full-price Price after the initial month (development overhead)

How do you envision this working? We don't have a native referral API/product, but there are third-party ones that may help

[devout onyx]

is there any downside to generating a coupon for every user? This could be tens of thousands of coupons, which never expire. It seems a little over the top, but if it works I can't complain 🙂

I do agree I want to avoid development overhead

The way I imagine the flow to go is:

• an existing user can see their referral link on their dashboard (hosted by us)
• if another user goes to that link and signs up to a paid account using the token, the referrer gets some extra credits, and the referred gets the 40% discount for the first billing cycle

[toxic gale]

is there any downside to generating a coupon for every user? This could be tens of thousands of coupons, which never expire. It seems a little over the top, but if it works I can't complain
There's no limits on the amount of Coupon objects per account, if that's your question

[toxic gale]

The way I imagine the flow to go is:

• an existing user can see their referral link on their dashboard (hosted by us)
• if another user goes to that link and signs up to a paid account using the token, the referrer gets some extra credits, and the referred gets the 40% discount for the first billing cycle
  Seems reasonable, yep. You'd just initialise the Checkout Session from that referral link with the discounts param: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-discounts-coupon

[devout onyx]

alright, thank you for the help 🙂 Always amazed how smooth getting support is here, you put in the work