#thule_41493
zenith swallow
keen mesa
Unfortunately not. They can only be applied indicriminantly to future invoices
heady rivet
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Do you know if is there any way to charge the customer the amount that less than the invoice.total, without using the customer balance or discount?
keen mesa
charge the customer the amount that less than the invoice.total
Do you mean charge an amount less than the invoice total? If so, you can create a negative Invoice Item and add it to the invoice to decrease the total: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoiceitems/create#create_invoiceitem-amount
heady rivet
But with this case, we cant do line item refund later on this invoice 😦
keen mesa
I don't understand. Can you elaborate on what you're actually trying to do? What's the point of the refund?
heady rivet
I am hitting deadend in the scenario where the customer changes their tax exemption status before upgrade. Stripe update subscription API calculate refund amount wrongly when invoicing upgrade. To fix this, I need to create an invoice manually, calculate the refund amount, and only want to charge the customer only the difference amount. But I found out that after that, if I do refund, the some amount will go back to the customer balance instead of the customer's card
heady rivet
I don't understand. Can you elaborate on what you're actually trying to do? What...
When doing the refund on the invoice which has negative amount line item, Stripe does not allow to do invoice_line_item refund, it has to be custom_line_item refund
keen mesa
Why do you need to do the refund if you're calculating the exact amount that they need to be charged?
heady rivet
No, I mean when new action coming after invoicing.
Let me explain more in details
I have a taxable customer buy a sub with package A, he then wants to upgrade to package B and provide valid VAT when upgrading. So, I want to:
- Create an invoice with package B, e.g, total $300
- Calculate the prorated unused time of package A, e.g $ 100
- And I want to charge the customer the different, $200
After the customer is upgraded, he may come back and want to get refund for 1 seat in package B, in this case, with negative line item invoice, I cant create invoice_line_item credit note for refunding 1 seat for the customer
keen mesa
Do you want to create a credit note for the refund for 1 seat? Or do you want to just reduce the price of the next invoice? Why not just do a partial refund to their payment method on file instead?
heady rivet
I want to create a credit note for refunding 1 seat
I want money sent to the customer's card
Wait, do you mean I can create a Refund with any amount I want, without depending on any invoice?
keen mesa
Okay, those are 2 different things. A credit note will not send money to the customer's card. In order to do that you need to create a partial refund by getting the Payment Intent ID from the Invoice and creating a refund for the amount you want to send to the customer's card
heady rivet
I currently create credit note with refund_amount, so Stripe auto create Refund object after the credit note is created
Even with creating a refund, from the above scenario for the upgrade invoice with balance applied, can I create a refund with $300, and Stripe sends $300 to the customer's card? Just do a quick reading, I dont see that it is doable
keen mesa
yup, that's doable as long as the amount of the original charge was $300 or more
heady rivet
So, for my case, it is not, since after applying balance, the charge is only $200.
And Stripe does not refund money for the credit balance
keen mesa
Yeah, you can only refund up to the original charge amount
heady rivet
So Stripe only allow to refund for any invoice is charged by Stripe, right? Let say, for a customer that pays the invoice using check, can I use Stripe to refund/send money to his new added card?