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Hello Rubeus had to step away but I am happy to help out

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yes

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I want to ask a few questions about usage based Billings(https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/usage-based):

How our billing system works: We have recurring customers that use our service many times during a billing period. It would be ideal to leverage usage based Billing. However, there is no standard metrics on tracking the unit price, nor unit quantity. It is very much a customized amount. We help small restaurants facilitate deliveries using a third party services, that means the small restaurant could have incurred 20 delivery in a month, and each delivery value would vary. We have a place where we record the total amount they are due to pay us at the end of the month. We have been sending invoice to them manually.

Question is:
Would usage based billing still work in this case? Can we just at the end of every month period, hook up our system with stripe, and charge a custom amount based on what the system presents without having to set-up the Price & Quantity?
Alternatively, we could do it in a way similar to the star-bucks reward card, where the customer pre-load balances to their account, and as more delivery they use, the balance would reduce for their account, and once it reaches a certain threshold, we can remind the customer to load more. Is there a system like this in Stripe?

Re-your previous question in the unanwsered Thread:
Your question: Are you splitting funds with these restaurants at all? Like does the user pay you for the meal and then some funds go to you, some to the restaurant?

My answer: No we are not splitting funds. Here's how it works. End consumer pays for the Meal Price + Delivery fee. We as middle man send order to doordash and doordash will send their drivers to fulfill the delivery. As of how the money works, at month end we send Restaurant a bill on total delivery fee + commision from us, and we are billed from Doordash on their fee
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This was my question previously

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lmk what would be the best option for us at the moment

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we want to automate billing/invoicing

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we have dashboard to track how much money the restaruant owe us

heady surge
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Gotcha, thanks for the info and followup. So with Rubeus's suggestion, you would create a subscription for your customers (it can be a $0 subscription if you only charge based on deliveries). Then during the month whenever a delivery happens that you want to charge for, you can create an invoice item and pass in the customer's ID. When the subscription cycles each month, it will gather up the invoice items that you have added on to the customer and put them on one invoice.
https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoiceitems/create#create_invoiceitem-customer

Stripe API reference – Create an invoice item – curl

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

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Do you know if you want to take payment method info via your own custom page or if you want to collect it with a Stripe-hosted page like Checkout?

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we are building a dashboard on our own site to collect payment info, but leveraging stripe

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what does checkout look like?

heady surge
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this do have the option of opting in to direct debit right?

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we're a UK company, I assume only US ACH direct debit works

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as well as the european ones

heady surge
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I would imagine the invoice item can be automated with our system, no need to manually create correct?

heady surge
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thank you so mcuh