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[austere steppe]

Hello

Sounds like you are asking how to create a refund based on a Customer having Customer Credit Balance, is that right?

[whole tusk]

Yeah thats right

[austere steppe]

Hmmm yeah that's not really possible.

Since you can manipulate Credit Balance arbitrarily, that would lead to the ability to just siphon money out of Stripe

[whole tusk]

Oh wow I hadn't realised you can do that in the non-test environment. Why do you allow that out of interest ?

[austere steppe]

It allows flexibility with handling Invoices

But that Credit Balance only applies when an Invoice is finalized.

[whole tusk]

So for my use case is that standard practice to initialize a refund before the user gets that amount as credit or something else ?

[austere steppe]

Is the credit being created due to the cancellation or it was created prior to cancellation?

Mostly the only way to handle credit that has been created is to refund previous Invoices

Like we talk about here: https://support.stripe.com/questions/refunding-credit-balance-to-customer-after-subscription-downgrade-or-cancellation

[whole tusk]

That's the exact use case - thanks for this

[austere steppe]

Oh great!

[whole tusk]

Doesn't look simple but at least there is a way to do it.

Also don't know if you here is a decent place to put feedback but the work to make test clocks available for any user instead of only users created within that test clocks is 10/10