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violet oarBOT Sep 1, 2023, 4:10 PM

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rose oasis Sep 1, 2023, 4:10 PM

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Hi 👋

What do you mean "trigger a new metered billing"?

dry quarry Sep 1, 2023, 4:11 PM

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Do I just store cus_OYhHfYSIEWoiIB

rose oasis Sep 1, 2023, 4:11 PM

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That does not make sense

dry quarry Sep 1, 2023, 4:11 PM

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rose oasis Hi 👋 What do you mean "trigger a new metered billing"?

Right

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eg. they make a new request, add one to their billing

dry quarry Sep 1, 2023, 4:11 PM

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rose oasis That does not make sense

What does not make sense?

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@rose oasis So let me refactor:

I got all info from my customer. What do I exactly need to store in my Supabase database?

So I can then do https://stripe.com/docs/api/usage_records/create to record their usage and add to their billing

Stripe API reference – Create a usage record – 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.

rose oasis Sep 1, 2023, 4:21 PM

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Gotcha, okay

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So you have created a Subscripiton for this customer with a usage based price?

dry quarry Sep 1, 2023, 4:24 PM

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Right, I will share it

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Sorry @rose oasis, wrong image. This is the actual one.

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rose oasis Sep 1, 2023, 4:27 PM

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Okay I didn't need to see it, just that you have created this beforehand

dry quarry Sep 1, 2023, 4:28 PM

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Yes and the test sub is on that pricing

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Would I save any more info other than price id and customer id on the db?

rose oasis Sep 1, 2023, 4:28 PM

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So, you remember that recurring billing pricing model I sent you?

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All the information is there

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Specifically this section: https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models#reporting-usage

dry quarry Sep 1, 2023, 4:29 PM

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Thanks

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So the only 2 things I need to store in the user object, is the customer id and subscription id?

rose oasis Sep 1, 2023, 4:34 PM

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No, that is not what that document says

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The code snippet for reporting usage records clearly shows you need the Subscription Item ID

dry quarry Sep 1, 2023, 4:35 PM

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rose oasis The code snippet for reporting usage records clearly shows you need the Subscrip...

Oh ofc yeah, talking generally

rose oasis Sep 1, 2023, 4:42 PM

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What do you mean, talking generally? I thought we were discussing specific API actions and how to achieve your desired behavior

rose oasis Sep 1, 2023, 5:06 PM

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But in general, you can choose to store only the customer and subscription IDs, and you can look up the other related information through the API.

But you would likely want to keep either the Subscription Item ID or at least the Price ID that corresponds to the usage-based price so you know which subscription item ID to use when you create the usage records

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So I would recommend you think through how you are going to write your integration. How it is going to track your customers usage and report that to Stripe. Figure out what information you will need to store locally to make that work based on your own logic and the parameter required to make the necessary Stripe API calls.

#lennard.