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short jungleBOT Dec 13, 2023, 4:33 PM

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jovial swan Dec 13, 2023, 4:34 PM

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Hi @whole oracle , apologies for the delay 👋 I'm not sure I'm grasping what you mean by "the application fee is not right on the transaction". Can you elaborate on that?

whole oracle Dec 13, 2023, 4:37 PM

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yeah so we have an invoice that is £25 , which is a product set up fee and we create an ongoing payment that is £25 per month. This set up fee and the first payment are taken together at a charge of £50.

The application fee for this transaction looks to be using what we set in setApplicationFeePercent for the totsl payment. Not the on going fee

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application_fee_amount should be for the set up fee and application_fee_percent should be fore the ongoign payment right?

short jungleBOT Dec 13, 2023, 4:44 PM

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whole oracle Dec 13, 2023, 4:44 PM

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So it seems like we are using the worng methid, is there an easier way to create a subscription with a start fee?

jovial swan Dec 13, 2023, 4:44 PM

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Making sure I understand correctly, are you adding both the one-time price and the recurring price to a single Subscription?

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Yeah, you can include the one-time fee in the add_invoice_items field when creating the Subscription:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-add_invoice_items
but that should use the application_fee_percent you set on the Subscription.

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whole oracle Dec 13, 2023, 4:47 PM

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That looks a nicer way to mage thigs, would we have to create the invoice first?

jovial swan Dec 13, 2023, 4:48 PM

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Nope, the one time prices added to add_invoice_items are included on the first Invoice that is generated for the Subscription, and then they don't appear again, so you won't need to create a separate Invoice for the one-time fees.

whole oracle Dec 13, 2023, 4:48 PM

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That's a lot easier, thank you

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Would we still need to specify the application_fee_percent?

jovial swan Dec 13, 2023, 4:51 PM

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Yup, you'd set that for the Subscription, and that will be applied across all items.

whole oracle Dec 13, 2023, 4:52 PM

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but if we use the percentage, it would not be the same for the second payment?

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so if we use the percentage the first charge will be for the set up fee and the first payment. But then the percentage for the second month will be too much right?

jovial swan Dec 13, 2023, 4:54 PM

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I'm not sure I'm following. The percentage will be consistent, but that will cause the actual application fee amount to shift when the amount of the Subscription payment reduces after the first payment.

whole oracle Dec 13, 2023, 4:54 PM

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Or is the application_fee_percent jsut for the actual subscriptin payments?

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yes so we would need to updste the subscription with the new lower percentage?

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