#mathiasm8
silent lagoon
Hello! Can you talk in this thread instead of the main channel?
And I don't think adding invoice items when creating the subscription works, since I'm using the payment link generated by stripe?
flat gate
Hi, yes sure thing.
silent lagoon
So it seems like you asked a lot of different things there, but does it boil down to "how does my platform take an applicaiton fee on a Subscription"?
flat gate
Actually not an application fee. In the platform I'm building, I would like my customers (connected users) to be able to create subscription plans for their customers which works fine. But I can't seem to get my head around how they can charge there customers for a sign-up fee.
silent lagoon
A one-time sign-up fee is typically added to the first Subscription Invoice using add_invoice_items as you're doing it above. Is that not working the way you want?
flat gate
I haven't tested it out yet. The reason I'm asking is that I'm 100% depend on receiving a subscription_created webhook, for this to work. Since the end users are signing up for a subscription with the payment_link from Stripe. If I should miss this webhook for some reason or another my customer would not charge their customers for a fee. I see a risk in this?
So the only way I would know an end user signs up for a subscription is by the webhook, since they are doing it directly with Stripe and after I receive the webhook when this finishes I would do the add_invoce_items thing.
silent lagoon
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand. The code you have above that uses add_invoice_items creates a Subscription. Why would you run that when you receive a webhook about a Subscription being created? Do you want to end up with two separate Subscriptions?
flat gate
Yes and I think it would work. However this code only runs when I receive a webhook from Stripe (subscription_created). I'm not in control when subscriptions are being created on my platform, since users are using payment_links directly from Stripe.
I would also listen earlyer in the subscription creating process (on another webhook) the main issue is that I worry abount being depinding on receiving a webhook for making a sign-up fee to subscriptions.
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silent lagoon
I don't think what you want to do is going to work.
It sounds like you want to update a Subscription that's already been created, but I think by that point it's too late.
flat gate
So let me ask in another way. If my connected accounts are handeling out payment_links from Stripe to their customers. How can I add a on-etime fee to that?
silent lagoon
You can't. At least not on the first Invoice.
silent lagoon
You can add a one-time fee to the next Invoice by updating the Subscription, but with Payment Links you can't add something to the first Invoice after the fact.
silent lagoon
I don't know enough about your use case to make a recommendation. Can you tell me more?
flat gate
I as just wonering if Stripe supports another way than payment_links for allowing users to sing up to subscriptions. A way that would make me more in control with the process to be able to add a fee on the first subscription invoice?
silent lagoon
Yeah, there are a lot of ways. You can create Checkout Sessions, you can create the Subscriptions directly...
Why are you using Payment Links?
flat gate
I'm developing a SaaS solution for gyms where gym owners can add multiple memberships (subscriptions) an usually some of thoose require some kind of fee at sign-up like if you would hand out keys etc.
I was just thinking that was the best way to do it.
silent lagoon
I recommend you look at Checkout Sessions: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions
flat gate
Okay in that way I would be able to create fees on the first invoice?
silent lagoon
You can add two line items, one for the recurring Subscription payment, one for the one-time fee.
Then you send the customer to the Checkout Session's URL to pay for that.
flat gate
Nice, I would use that instead. Thank you very much for your help!
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