mochi-invoice-upcoming

[wide folio]

mochi-invoice-upcoming

@patent grail can you tell me what's confusing?

I ask because someone on my team literally rewrote that error message 2 weeks ago to make it way clearer so if it's not good enough I want to know

[patent grail]

how do i get this to work

[wide folio]

did you read the error message? What's unclear?

[patent grail]

well the weird thing is that I can update the subscription to this price no problem but i want to be able to preview it

so there must be some fields that I'm missing or something

[wide folio]

how do you do the update? Can you share the exact code?

[patent grail]

yea

            payment_behavior: 'pending_if_incomplete',
            proration_behavior: 'always_invoice',
            items: [
                {
                    id: subscription.items.data[0].id,
                    price: newPriceId,
                },
            ],
        });```

[wide folio]

okay so you're doing it clearly differently right?

you pass price and id in that call but not the Upcoming Invoice one

[patent grail]

when you say id

you mean the id of the subscription or subscription item

[wide folio]

the latter, the one inside items

[patent grail]

ok

[wide folio]

what the error message is trying to tell you is that you're having 2 separate Prices with different billing cycles

If you meant to update an existing subscription item instead of creating a new one, make sure to include the subscription item ID in your request

so that part of the error is trying to be clear

[patent grail]

so do i just need to add the id

[wide folio]

it's totally fine if it's not, you're just the first developer who raises this after our rewording

yeah

you basically want your code for both to look ~identical

[patent grail]

lol I just saw where it said that

this is on me sorry lol

its very clear

thank you

[wide folio]

haha all good

the problem with error messages is that if they are short they are vague if they are long most of us developers just skim them and ignore them

it's really hard to find the right balance 😦

[patent grail]

you are correct my good sir

also I cant even imagine how many times you get frustrated with devs that just want you to answer things that are clearly spelled out in the documentation

trying to use this as a human version of chat gpt lol

[wide folio]

hahaha depends on the character of each member of my team

me? A LOT lol and I show it :p

but overall it's fair, we reply fast and it's so easy to just ask a question. As long as you're willing to work with us, try things, etc. we're always happy to help 🙂

[patent grail]

I appreciate it!

I'll be back lol