#dbugger-customer-portal
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nocturne lava
I tried to create a checkout session, but all I got is the message:
Checkout does not support multiple prices with different billing intervals.
uneven crow
Hello! Yes, have a look here: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/upsells
nocturne lava
Oh, so that is what upsells are for, I see
Let me see..
Oh, nice, I see...
Small detail: If I create a checkout to the "price" with the upsell, the user can choose the yearly price
but if I create a checkout to the yearly price, the user cannot "downsell"
Isnt there a way to make a checkout where I can pre-select the user selected price, but still change it during checkout?
uneven crow
No, upsells are the closest thing we have to what you want. The other option would be to create a seclection page on your end prior to Checkout.
nocturne lava
Which means that I am the one that have to manage the UI, for the user to select which pricing he wants to use, no?
rain gullBOT
uneven crow
Yes, if the Checkout functionality won't work for you you need to build the UI you want on your end.
nocturne lava
What about the customer portal? Would it be possible to make it, so that the user can switch from monthly <-> yearly over there?
uneven crow
Yes, you can do that, but that only works with Subscriptions that already exist. You can't start a new Subscription from Customer Portal.
nocturne lava
Yeah, I know you cannot create new subscriptions. Only update, upgrade or cancel them
But what is it that has to be done, for that option to show up?
rain gullBOT
nocturne lava
Right now I only see the option to cancel it
uneven crow
You need to configure Customer Portal with the Prices you want people to be able to switch between.
uneven crow
Yes. 😅 There's also a way to configure settings in the Dashboard, but I'm not very familiar with doing it that way.
nocturne lava
I notice that you have linked me to stripe.billingPortal.configurations.create
But in my code I have been using stripe.billingPortal.sessions.create
Am I using the wrong one?
white inlet
Hi, taking over as rubeus needs to step away.
nocturne lava
Thanks @uneven crow
white inlet
You're not using it wrong. These are just two different APIs. The configuration, you can think of it as settings: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customer_portal/configurations. The Session one, https://stripe.com/docs/api/customer_portal/sessions you can think of it as an instance of when the customer uses the UI.
Does that help clarify it?
nocturne lava
Let me see...
rain gullBOT
dbugger-customer-portal
nocturne lava
mmm... hard to use, since it doesnt tell you why the configuration is wrong 😅
When it says here "Array of enums"
It is just an array of strings, no?
["price"]
(javascript)
white inlet
Yes, it would be something like this: default_allowed_updates: ['promotion_code', 'price']
nocturne lava
Shouldnt this config be valid?
Because I keep getting an "Invalid string" error, and I have no idea why... I have added all the required fields
white inlet
You need to use stripe.billingPortal.configurations.create in this case as you're trying to create the configuration, right?
nocturne lava
Oh, I thought that, since you said that sessions.create was a one-off, I could also set up a configuration
where can I then find the docs for billingPortal.sessions.create? I do not see it through the search field...
Oh, nevermind
I ask it, and I find it 😛
Ok, so I cant use that, then. The option is not there. I need to use the configuration.create
white inlet
You'd want to follow this documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/customer-management/integrate-customer-portal. After you created that configuration, you can create the bolling session, https://stripe.com/docs/api/customer_portal/sessions/create.
white inlet
Sure!
nocturne lava
If I dont add a privacy_policy_url
it fails
Even though in the documentation is not marked as "required"
Mistake in the docs?
(it is also weird that business_profile is required, but none of its children... sounds like an empty object might work)
(but it doesnt)
white inlet
I do not think so. The business_profile is required, https://stripe.com/docs/api/customer_portal/configurations/create which has 3 child parameters.
Are you saying you'd have expected 'required' to be added for child parameters as well?
nocturne lava
Yeah, I know the business_profile is required, but its children do not appear as "required". I guess one could argue that if business_profile is marked as "required", all its children should be considered "required" as well
But then you see at other things like features:
And this is not the case here. Those children are not required
Seems a little inconsistent. Might lead to confusion.
white inlet
I see, thank you for flagging. I think you can just pass any of it and it would work
nocturne lava
My pleasure
My advice: be explicite and mark as required everything that is actually required
(or add notes in special cases 🙂 )
In any case, thanks for your help!
🫂
white inlet
Sure!