#zelda.zonk
unborn cloak
can you describe you use case in more detail? Like what are you collecting payment for? is it a subscription or a one time payment?
stable hamlet
user buys a gift card product lets say $100 gift card. user recieves promotion code. then they can use that promo code on future checkouts to cover all or part of cart total. they cart could be one time payment or susbcription.
unborn cloak
we don't really have any documentation about such a flow specifically. You'll first need to decide how you want to collect payment - are you using Checkout or Payment Element? If you use Checkout Sessions, it supports coupons created by Stripe. If you use Payment Element, you'll have to implement your own coupon logic cause it doesn't support accepting coupons
stable hamlet
ill be using payment element, as stripe checkout doesnt allow $0 checkouts correct? (in the event coupon covers total cart cost)
i created a $100 coupon and used Stripe Checkout with one product $100 and tired to use coupon code and it wouldnt let me.
but $90 coupon code worked.
this is intended behavior yes?
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indigo swan
Can you share the Checkout Session ID (cs_xxx) and the promotion code?
stable hamlet
damn, sorry i cant right now. but is this intended behavior, can u use stripe checkout with a coupon code that reduces the total to $0 ?
so $100 is price id and coupon code for $100
?
indigo swan
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stable hamlet
ok
indigo swan
Stripe has minimum change limit: https://stripe.com/docs/currencies#minimum-and-maximum-charge-amounts
stable hamlet
thats what i thought, so i cant use stripe checkout - thats fine
indigo swan
When 100% promotion code is applied, the limit restriction doesn't meet
stable hamlet
what do you mean the limit restriction doesn't meet?
indigo swan
When 100% off discount, the final amount will be $0 that doesn't minimum charge amount
stable hamlet
so when using Stripe Checkout, can you use 100% off discount or not?
indigo swan
No, 100% off discount can't be used on Checkout Session
stable hamlet
when can it be used then?
indigo swan
It can only be used with Billing products such as Invoicing and Subscription
stable hamlet
right ok thanks. if you create a coupon with a fixed amount, can you update that amount later using the api?
indigo swan
Nope! After the coupon is created, the amount can't be updated
stable hamlet
ok thanks
indigo swan
No problem! Happy to help 😄
stable hamlet
when adding credit balance to a customer, will that credit be automatically used in a customers subscription?
indigo swan
From https://stripe.com/docs/billing/customer/balance#details:
The credit balance automatically applies toward the next invoice finalized to a customer.
So yes, it will be added to the next invoice of the Subscription automatically
stable hamlet
ok great, but if user instead just does one-time payment credit balance isnt used, so only used in subscriptions / invoices ?
indigo swan
Yup! For one-time payment, credit balance won't be applied
stable hamlet
ok great, what if customer has more than one subscription, will balance be used over all subscriptions until balance reaches $0?
indigo swan
Yes, it will be applied to the invoices until the balance reaches $0
stable hamlet
-- also can you use balance for one-time payments if u wanted to? i asked before if it automatically did.
so when creating payment intent you would deduct from balance
indigo swan
Credit balance can only be used in Invoice and Subscription. For one-time payment created from Payment Intent directly or Checkout Session, credit balance can't be applied
stable hamlet
ok thanks for clarification 🙂