#yingwang-invoice-questions
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median totem
Hello! Usually when you create Invoices, it's the Product name that'll appear on the Invoice line item descriptin
primal barn
it there a way to show price name instead? otherwise, it is so confusing...
I have different price for different feature
median totem
No, there's no way to show the price name instead of the product name. Instead you should be configuring your pricing model so that each product is something distinct and has the names you want
primal barn
okay
one more question, if I update a product to add/remove price items, will existing subscription get updated auotmatially?
median totem
You can't actually delete a price through the API - you can only update it not be active anymore (https://stripe.com/docs/api/prices/update#update_price-active). When you de-activate a price this does not automatically update the subscriptions, you'll have to still migrate them to use the different prices
primal barn
i see
one more question
we can use create invoice API to add item to an invoice generated by an subscription right?
median totem
Yes you can use the create Invoice Items API to add additional line items to subscription invoices
primal barn
thats great~ thanks!
ah, one final question for invoices:
from this page: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices
If the amount due for the invoice is less than Stripe’s minimum allowed charge per currency, the invoice is automatically marked paid, and we add the amount due to the customer’s credit balance which is applied to the next invoice.
does that mean if customer credit balance is zero, the credit balance will become negative?
median totem
Correct - a negative credit balance means that they owe that amount on the next invoice
primal barn
btw, if I create a subscription with a price item $0, will stripe still generate invoice autoamtically at the end of each month>?
median totem
Yup
primal barn
oh, cool thanks a lot! it is really helpful
so curious, change we explicity have a invoice to pay by credit balance?
median totem
Can you clarify what you mean by that? Maybe give me an example of the scenario you'd want to emulate?
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yingwang-invoice-questions
primal barn
so I just mentioned we want to support a free tier users, and give them $5 credit first, so they don't have payment method setup yet. we want to stop the service after customer use all their $5 credit
but there is some delay to catch that, so it may end up with user spending a litte bit over $5
e.g. $5.8
so we want to have 0.8 as a negative credit, and have them pay after they setup the payment method (e.g. register a credit card, etc)
is that sth doable?
median totem
Yeah I think so - the only edge case that you'd have to be aware of is that if the extra negative credit is below the minimum, there'd be no way foryou to charge for it on stripe. You'd have to wait for them to accumualte enough so that it's above the minimum and then charge them
primal barn
i see