sameer.kumar

[brittle moon]

you could pass a one-time Price for the amount of the flat fee, in addition to the metered Price, in the line_items for the CheckoutSession.

[glad jay]

can I get an example?

Ok, but the subscription would be metered, right? The flat fee won't deducted at the start of each month, but at the end.

@brittle moon

[brittle moon]

const session = await stripe.checkout.sessions.create({
  success_url: 'https://example.com/success',
  line_items: [
    {price: 'price_1O1pjLJoUivz182DEmOScLIG'}, // metered 
    {price: 'price_1NYVyRJoUivz182DITZjn6S1', quantity:1}, // non-recurring price
  ],
  mode: 'subscription',
});

The flat fee won't deducted at the start of each month, but at the end.
yes

[glad jay]

If I want to achieve the aforementioned, is there a way to have it done with one pricing model? Or do I must create two different?

1 subscription where a set fee is charged every month at the start and a usage-based fee is charged when the usage is past a certain limit (I can handle whent to add the usage data, no worries there)

[brittle moon]

the best way I know how to do this is what I described, use a one-off Price for the flat amount upfront

[glad jay]

The problem, is that the one-off price is only deducted once. I want both the things present.

Which is achieved with tiered billing scheme, but the flat-rate is deducted at the end with the metered usage.

[brittle moon]

yes

so you use the one-off price for the first payment(when the subscription is created), and then every month after that the flat fee will happen instead, and it just works.

[glad jay]

requirement is this: Flat fee - start of the month, Metered Fee - End of the month (or whenever, we don't care)

[brittle moon]

you use the one-off price to effectively charge the flat fee at the start, since a metered Price on its own will only charge that the end of a billing period.

[brittle moon]

well that's not possible really since our metered Prices are designed to charge in arrears.

I'd suggest trying the option I suggested and doing some testing and experimentation

[glad jay]

Understood

[glad jay]

Thanks