#barkofdelight
limpid shuttle
Hi 👋
No this isn't how Invoices and Subscriptions are related to each other
stable roost
The situation my company is facing is one where customers will have a variety of subscriptions with different start dates and durations. They'd like to send each customer a single summary of everything they're getting billed for. Is there some better way to approach this?
limpid shuttle
You could create a one-off invoice for the total amount and create InvoiceItems that represent the charges for each Subscription. Then you would mark the latest invoice for each Subscription as paid_out_of_band to show it is paid but not through Stripe.
https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/pay#pay_invoice-paid_out_of_band
But that would break the connection between Invoices and the Subscription objects
formal hareBOT
stable roost
I will look into it, but that seems like a lot of work replicating what subscriptions are supposed to do for us.
limpid shuttle
I agree
But the other option is to have your customers pay the individual invoices for each subscription
stable roost
The thing is that the customers are reactive and suddenly need something for 3 months, something else for 8, etc. It can add up to a lot of subscriptions quickly, so sending out multiple invoices will be clumsy.
hot birch
Hi, stepping in and catching up.
stable roost
Everything could go into a single subscription, and we could add/remove items from that, but I think a single subscription is limited to 20 items.
hot birch
I think this might be a feature request. I recommend that you write in to out Support team, https://support.stripe.com/contact and ask if they can do anything on their end for this business use case of having more than 20 items on a Subscription.