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tribal novaBOT Nov 1, 2023, 9:16 AM

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haughty cove Nov 1, 2023, 9:18 AM

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hi! there's nothing really technical or built-in to Stripe for that. You can charge an end-customer and add the amount to some database table in your system to indidcate that customer has a certain balance, and then if they want to make a purchase in future, you can decrement your database table instead of calling Stripe again to process a payment, for example.

jovial swan Nov 1, 2023, 9:22 AM

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@haughty cove But I am thinking of having stripe to contain the source of truth of the current customer's balance.

Can I deduct balance manually from stripe, instead of having the data in my dB?

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because it is not just one time charge, it may envovle multiple charges and purchases

haughty cove Nov 1, 2023, 9:23 AM

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I suppose you could, you can adjust https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/update#update_customer-balance with the amounts, or use metadata on the Customer object.

jovial swan Nov 1, 2023, 9:52 AM

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I'll try look into it more thanks @haughty cove !

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