#lec1892
harsh hornet
mighty sand
hi! not with each usage no. Can you elaborate, what exactly do you envision this description being used for and how/where would a customer see it?
midnight grotto
My customers have metered subscriptions.
When they receive an invoice there is no detailed description regarding their usage. For example: what is the exact day when the usage happened? What was the customer doing at that time that end up creating a new record usage?
So, if Stripe allows me to add a description when creating record usages, then my customer will have a detailed invoice.
mighty sand
makes sense. But yeah that's not really a feature we offer on our end in terms of any breakdowns of usage beyond just the total reported during a period.
it likely makes more sense to track that in your own system as part of the business logic that then eventually calls the UsageRecord API, and then you can provide a dashboard/report to your customers with the information your system is tracking.
midnight grotto
Yes, this is exactly the workaround that I was thinking of.
Anyway, it would be great if Stripe could offer this feature since it already has the record usage API working, and also it generates the invoices, in my opinion, it makes sense for Stripe to offer a more complete feature.
mighty sand
yep, I agree our metered billing product could be improved