moe-invoiceitem-period | Stripe Developers | Page 1

silver remnantBOT Jan 5, 2024, 5:01 PM

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lapis valley Jan 5, 2024, 5:02 PM

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Hi 👋

I"m still having a little trouble understanding what you are trying to do here. How are these events added and when do you want to bill for them?

scarlet slate Jan 5, 2024, 5:13 PM

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The invoice items are added by API

The invoice is created by API

We want to bill them on the 1st of the following month

I'll use a simplified example of what is actually wanted although of course this is all made up.

#1 - Invoice item created Jan 3rd @ 00:01 UTC
#2 - Invoice item created Jan 5th @ 00:01 UTC
#3 - Invoice item created Feb 1st @ 00:01 UTC

I want to make the invoice on Feb 1st at 03:00 UTC. I want the invoice to only have "January's items" -- So only #1 and #2 .

I want the invoice to have ONLY all invoice items created from Jan 1 00:00:00.000 UTC -> Jan 31 23:59:59.999 UTC and exclude the Feb item

But there does not seem to be a way with teh API to create an invoice and then add specific invoice items to it, if the invoice items was already created 🤔

lapis valley Jan 5, 2024, 5:16 PM

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Unfortunately I think you would need to create the Invoice before you create the February line item. You would then use pending_invoice_items_behavior parameter with include to include all those invoice items.

scarlet slate Jan 5, 2024, 5:19 PM

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Thanks Snufkin

Could the invoice item's "period" property be useful for this? And Revenue Recognition? It is something we haven't explored... but were curious about it

https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoiceitems/create#create_invoiceitem-period

Create an invoice item | Stripe API Reference

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lapis valley Jan 5, 2024, 5:20 PM

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Wait, aren't we having the same discussion in two threads?

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I think this feature is specific to how your revenue gets calculated, not what Invoice the items are assigned to. However it might be worth a quick test

scarlet slate Jan 5, 2024, 5:22 PM

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No this is a different topic, sorry for the confusion!

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~~This is a weird behaviour I'm not sure about, while the other topic I made is a general workflow question~~

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omg I confused myself.

THIS topic is the one with the general workflow, the OTHER is the weird behaviour which I am not sure about

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For this one, thanks for the tips, we might experiment with the rev recognition and I think we're good on this thread here

lapis valley Jan 5, 2024, 5:25 PM

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Okay , thanks for helping me keep it straight

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