#haowang0422
young marten
slender vessel
ruby stream
Thanks Jack. Then is there any way I can charge a customer, and able to generate an tax invoice, without using credit balance?
I used to charge using paymentIntent directly, but it doesn't have a tax invoice.
slender vessel
No you can't charge customer's credit balance through Paymentintents API.
You need to use Invoices or Subscriptions.
ruby stream
Okay sorry for not being clear enough. My goal is to charge customers only through cards (not using credit balance at all), and able to give them an invoice for tax purpose. Do you mind suggesting a possible solution?
slender vessel
So you want to remove the customer's credit?
ruby stream
No, I want the customer only use credit for subscription charges. For other charges, I want to charge the card directly
slender vessel
What do you mean by other charges?
ruby stream
We have an application which uses Stripe for managing user subscription, and charging their SMS usages. Other charges is for charging SMS usages
slender vessel
I mean are these charges created by invoices and subscriptions?
ruby stream
Subscriptions or invoices API
I used to use paymentIntentAPI instead of invoices API. (for charge I'm not referring to charge API)
cus_IHa597y3SVod5b for example, this is a typical customer we have. And this invoice in_1NKVKsH99WdjcN8hOLVvvLpf is what I mean by charging a customer, it applied credit balance.
slender vessel
If you read the article that I sent earlier (https://stripe.com/docs/billing/customer/balance#details), it's very clear : You can’t choose to not apply the credit balance to an invoice.
ruby stream
Yes I understood that one. But is there any workaround for this?
If not possible, I'm totally okay with it.
slender vessel
No