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drifting mossBOT Sep 22, 2023, 4:53 AM

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twilit panther Sep 22, 2023, 4:54 AM

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Can you share what you would like to achieve?

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For example, the scenario that "dynamic pricing" should be used

frosty ledge Sep 22, 2023, 4:55 AM

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so, I on the product catalog, I have multiple products and each product has multiple prices. Each price is setup on our website to be added to cart and go through stripe checkout. Since our site use Paypal additionally, we do our coupon calculation on the site itself and don't use the Stripe Coupons

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so when the coupon is calculated we want to set the discounted price on the checkout session against each price object. How do I go about doing this

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does it make sense?

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once Stripe starts supporting Paypal in the US, we will want to get rid of this and start using the Stripe coupons instead, but for now we have to use our own coupon system to calculate discounts as customers also use Paypal

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twilit panther Sep 22, 2023, 5:12 AM

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Thanks for waiting! Discord is busy now

frosty ledge Sep 22, 2023, 5:12 AM

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ok

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can you let me know when you get a chance how I go about doing this

twilit panther Sep 22, 2023, 5:18 AM

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I'm afraid Checkout Session doesn't support discount on individual line item. Discount can only be applied on all the line items.

One way I can think of to use ad-hoc price with price_data, i.e. create new one-time line item in Checkout Session directly. This is the code example: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment?platform=web&ui=checkout#redirect-customers

frosty ledge Sep 22, 2023, 5:19 AM

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right but on the price_data I cannot set the price_id for which I am trying to charge the customer for, so with this my product stats will be messed up

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with the above example, I cannot use the Stripe Product Catalog at all

twilit panther Sep 22, 2023, 5:23 AM

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As Checkout Session doesn't support discount on individual line item with price (with Price ID), only ad-hoc price_data (the price after discount is applied) can be used as a workaround

frosty ledge Sep 22, 2023, 5:26 AM

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any alternatives if checkout has this disadvantage?

twilit panther Sep 22, 2023, 5:31 AM

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If you wish to use Stripe product catalog, another alternative will be using Invoicing: https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/integration

When creating invoice item at Step 5, Stripe coupon can be used to apply discount with discounts.coupon parameter: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoiceitems/create#create_invoiceitem-discounts-coupon

However, Invoicing will incur additional fee.

devout bear Sep 22, 2023, 5:32 AM

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Payment Intents?

twilit panther Sep 22, 2023, 5:33 AM

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Payment Intent doesn't have the concept of price, coupon or discount. Stripe will look at the final amount your system submits and charge to customer accordingly

frosty ledge Sep 22, 2023, 5:33 AM

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who is this?

devout bear Sep 22, 2023, 5:33 AM

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can't you implement it yourself since you are able to choose the price

twilit panther Sep 22, 2023, 5:37 AM

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This channel is public and open for community discussion

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Likely that . is interested in this topic

devout bear Sep 22, 2023, 5:38 AM

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I am planning to use payment intent for calculating my own coupon codes yes

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its not bad practice is it?

twilit panther Sep 22, 2023, 5:40 AM

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@devout bear If you have question, please have it in main channel #dev-help, so that we can create a thread for you to address your concern/query

frosty ledge Sep 22, 2023, 6:07 AM

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even with invoice, I cannot use coupons unless invoice allows setting the price_id and a custom amount

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as mentioned above, we use our own coupon implementation

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that supports both Stripe and Paypal

twilit panther Sep 22, 2023, 6:10 AM

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I'm afraid Stripe doesn't offer any product to customise amount in a specific price_id

frosty ledge Sep 22, 2023, 6:10 AM

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ok, then that answers my question

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if a product or price is archived, can it still be used to accept payments?

twilit panther Sep 22, 2023, 6:13 AM

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Once the price or product is archived, it can't be used to accept payments

frosty ledge Sep 22, 2023, 6:14 AM

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so, I cannot have grandfathered prices and they need to be active

twilit panther Sep 22, 2023, 6:15 AM

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To use prices for payment, they can't be archived and must be active

frosty ledge Sep 22, 2023, 6:15 AM

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like if I have active subscriptions and I archive a product, what happens?

twilit panther Sep 22, 2023, 6:17 AM

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From https://stripe.com/docs/api/prices/update#update_price-active:

Whether the price can be used for new purchases.

It will only affect the new purchase, but not the old one

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A product can't be deleted if there is price associated to it

frosty ledge Sep 22, 2023, 6:18 AM

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ok, that makes sense.

if I use the price_data as you mentioned above and if the product I add are recurring in nature, will stripe still generate proper reports about churn rates etc?

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