kyle-heat-engineer_api

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[midnight marlin]

Hello

[radiant dawn]

hey

[midnight marlin]

Where do you want this description shown exactly? On the Invoice?

[radiant dawn]

Let me get you a photo

In the invoice its just stating the product nickname but I want to display teh product nickname + price nickname

[midnight marlin]

Yeah the Price nickname won't be shown. That's just not how it works -- you want to rely on the Product name for whatever will be shown as a description on the Invoice for the line item.

[radiant dawn]

How do I display the different price names on the invoice?

The products have different price names based on different tierd of the product

example if a user pays for 50 CAD or 10 CAD I need it needs to show on the invoice

With theses prices are assocated to one product

[midnight marlin]

If you want that then you would create different Products for those Prices

[radiant dawn]

Sounds like a really large refactor and we are already live

Is there a way I can programatically set the description of an item on invoice?

[midnight marlin]

Not of the line item, no.

[radiant dawn]

Im kind of confused by what we ment to use the price objects for if they not ment to be different values for the products?

Haven't been able to test it yet but gpt is suggesting this

invoice_item = stripe.InvoiceItem.create(
  customer='cus_XXXXXXXXXXXXXX',  # Replace with your customer ID
  price='price_XXXXXXXXXXXXXX',   # Replace with your price ID
  description='Subscription for Basic Plan'  # Custom description including the nickname
)

[midnight marlin]

Yeah you don't use Invoice Items with Subscriptions

Those are you used for one-time Invoices

[radiant dawn]

Ok, could explain how I should use the price object?

I was under the impression that they are to represent a different price for a product

[midnight marlin]

Yes that is correct. They just show the Price though, if something different is being purchased from the Customer then it would be a different Product. The point of the Price object is only to indicate the amount

[radiant dawn]

Which is what I am doing with CAD 50 being 50 cad and CAD 10 being 10 cad however, its unclear from the descriptoion the quanilty of cad being purchased

its the same product just different amounts being givin in our saas

[midnight marlin]

Yeah unfortunately that is a different Product then... otherwise you would use quantity to represent that

So the same product would be 10 CAD per quantity... one line item would have 1x10 and the other 5x10

That is how the API is designed

[radiant dawn]

The issue is that with the prices its not linear. We apply discounts on the purchase of different prices

e.g. 10 cad could cost £10 with each cad being £1 but 100 cad could cost £90

Does stripe offer a invoicing service that is more custimisable?

[midnight marlin]

Yeah I hear you, I'm just telling you how the API is designed. It doesn't really fit that use-case without using a coupon for that. Really the only path forward for exactly what you want is to refactor to use different Products if you are going to use Subscriptions. The Invoice line items descriptions for Subscriptions are dictated by the Product. There is no way around that.