themacproguy

[pseudo oak]

The only thing I see for shipping rates is you create it and thats it (IE flat rate).

Hi 👋 can you elaborate on what you mean by setting shipping rates dynamically? Like you want to set a shipping rate that automatically adjusts?

For testmode Customers, you can access the Customer Portal for them from your Stripe dashboard, but that's not possible for livemode Customers.

[mellow thunder]

Yes - I am currently migrating to checkout and billing on two different projects. Both use a carrier's API to rate shop the actual cost of shipping to directly pass it to the customer. With Stripe, it looks like I would have to create a shipment rate for every possible rate which could be infinite.

[mellow thunder]

Yeah I wanted to see how a cash balance appears to the customer in the portal. We are using ACH credit (bank transfer source) and they had an overpayment. However, their new invoice did not get marked as partly paid with that overpayment. I was wondering if they could see how much cash is in their account.

[pseudo oak]

Hm, I don't think there is a great way to do this dynamically. You'd likely need to collect customer shipping address ahead of time, determine shipping before creating the Checkout Session, and then create the Checkout Session once you have the details about how much to charge.

[pseudo oak]

Gotcha, I would recommend reproducing that flow in testmode and then access the Customer Portal for the testmode Customer to see exactly how that displays (if at all) based on your settings.

[mellow thunder]

Yeah that was going to be the plan. But it sounds like to do this change, we'd need to move to a flat rate model

[mellow thunder]

Yeah, I was hoping to not need to do that lol. Was hoping for an "impersonate session" type deal. Would also help customers walk through it.

[pseudo oak]

Gotcha, yeah, that isn't available.

[mellow thunder]

Ok, that'll be a hard one to swallow. Thanks for your help!