#ihatetomatoes_best-practices
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smoky coral
anybody free to suggest the correct approach?
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round rover
It's totally up to you. You can report on whichever frequency you want, we will calculate a the end of period
smoky coral
Thanks.
What is the difference between Most recent usage during period and Most recent usage value?
round rover
hmm which parameter you are referring to?
smoky coral
There is a dropdown when I am creating price.
my app helps property managers manage properties and I want to change based on how many properties they manage
lets say I send a weekly update to Stripe about how many properties the company manages
I guess Sum of usage values during period is not suitable, but not sure which of the other 3 options are best.
sorry there was a typo: I want to charge*
round rover
Oh I think those are last_during_period vs last_ever here https://docs.stripe.com/api/prices/create#create_price-recurring-aggregate_usage
So for aggeration strategy, they will look for either the last reported within that period, or within all time.
smoky coral
ok so I send usage every week and set the value to Most recent usage value, Stripe will charge the customer based on the last reported value?
smoky coral
yes monthly
lets say the company manages 500 properties for the first half of the month, then they import another 500 properties
at the end of the month they manage 1000 properties
will they get invoice for 1000 * unit_price or will it be calculated based on how long they managed the different amount of properties?
I need to know because my customers will ask me.
round rover
In that case you likely need "Sum of usage values during period"
Because if you use "Most recent" it will only count the last reported 500 properties
Anw, please test in Test mode
smoky coral
I thought I will be reporting the usage with the action: 'set' , not increment
so the last reported value from my end to stripe would be 1000
but as I said the customer would only manage 1000 properties for 2 weeks, the first two weeks they only managed 500 properties
round rover
Hmm okie, and you send 2 API to Stripe, first reports 500 and next reports 1000, correct?
With Most recent usage during period, we will calculate that as 1000, with sum, we will calculate that as 1500, for the whole month
smoky coral
yes, if I send it weekly it's possible that some of the api calls will have the same value
ok so looks like Most recent usage during period is the correct option and the customer will be charged 1000*unit_price even though they only imported 500 properties later in the month
round rover
Yeah it all depends on how you report to Stripe