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glossy depotBOT Sep 12, 2023, 5:01 PM

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patent spindle Sep 12, 2023, 5:03 PM

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invoice.upcoming

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see https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks which has more details

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boreal sandal Sep 12, 2023, 5:03 PM

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awesome, thank you, will take a look

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Hmm, it seems to be 3 days as the shortest time window. It's not possible to receive something, say, an hour before the invoice gets sent out?

patent spindle Sep 12, 2023, 5:07 PM

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no that's impossible

boreal sandal Sep 12, 2023, 5:07 PM

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got it, thanks

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do most customers doing meterd billing like this follow a specific usage pattern to deal with this?

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we've been doing things a certain way for awhile, and I'm wanting to make sure there's not a "better way"

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by usage pattern I mean, how they're scheduling usage updates to stripe corresponding with the renewal date

patent spindle Sep 12, 2023, 5:09 PM

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usually you report usage either in real time or aggregate it hourly/daily

boreal sandal Sep 12, 2023, 5:13 PM

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if I recall correctly, stripe has an hour time window before an invoice is "finalized" for editing purposes, would it be possible to get a webhook when things enter that state and then edit the invoice with values during that 1 hour window?

patent spindle Sep 12, 2023, 5:17 PM

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no that's impossible

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You can modify the Invoice sure, but you can't report metered billing usage at that point

glossy depotBOT Sep 12, 2023, 5:18 PM

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boreal sandal Sep 12, 2023, 5:19 PM

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I apologize for the confusion, I more meant could I use this endpoint: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoiceitems/update to basically just modify the quantity on the draft invoice

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not create a usage record, but rather just hard update the invoice to the correct value

patent spindle Sep 12, 2023, 5:20 PM

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You can't modify the line items on an Invoice that come from a Subscription, so no. You can create a new InvoiceItem to reflect the amount you want to charge yes

boreal sandal Sep 12, 2023, 5:20 PM

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got it, makes sense

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if I add new invoice items like you mentioned, would you see any issues there for things like 3DS or indian banking?

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and would those issues be different than doing the normal usage reporting route?

patent spindle Sep 12, 2023, 5:25 PM

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Indian banking requires a Mandate with a min/max amount and such so you need to make sure this would be configured properly. See https://stripe.com/docs/india-recurring-payments
But otherwise no it should work the same in both cases

boreal sandal Sep 12, 2023, 5:29 PM

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got it, thanks

patent spindle Sep 12, 2023, 5:30 PM

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So yeah if what you want is once a month a new Invoice is created and then you go and add an extra line (an InvoiceItem) for the additional amount, then listening to the invoice.created Event on your webhook endpoint is likely the best approach

boreal sandal Sep 12, 2023, 5:31 PM

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any other things I should worry about here? I feel like I'm kind of doing an antipattern, but I do like the flexibility of this option as it gets us in the hour before state, while also allowing us to basically add on whatever we need to an invoice (for example if we added new products down the line)

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