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[fallow falcon]

Hi, let me help you with this.

You need to set the Invoice ID when creating an Invoice Item

https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoiceitems/create#create_invoiceitem-invoice

[raw latch]

should I create invoice item first or invoice first, which is the correct approach?

yes i have already tried by adding "invoice" field with invoice id while creating invoice items, but it is throwing error nothing to invoice for customer while creating invoice for the first time.

[fallow falcon]

Could you please share the Request ID req_xxx? https://support.stripe.com/questions/finding-the-id-for-an-api-request

[fallow falcon]

You create an Invoice first.

[raw latch]

$invoice = $this->stripe->invoices->create([
'customer' => $stripeCustomer->id,
'collection_method' => 'send_invoice',
'days_until_due' => 7,
'metadata' => [
'user_group_id' => $customBillingDto->userGroup->id,
'invoice_type' => 'custom_pricing',
'include_registration_fee' => $customBillingDto->includeRegistrationFee
],
]);

//add subscription invoice item
$this->stripe->invoiceItems->create([
'customer' => $stripeCustomer->id,
'amount' => 750 * 100, //multiplying it to convert to cents
'currency' => 'USD',
'description' => '6-Month Fill Finish Project Subscription',
'invoice' => $invoice->id,
]);

//add registration invoice item
if($customBillingDto->includeRegistrationFee){
$this->stripe->invoiceItems->create([
'customer' => $stripeCustomer->id,
'price' => config('services.stripe.base_plan_api_id'),
'description' => 'One Time Registration Fee',
'invoice' => $invoice->id,
]);
}

//finalize invoice
$this->stripe->invoices->finalizeInvoice($invoice->id);

// Retrieve the updated invoice to see the final status
$invoice = $this->stripe->invoices->retrieve($invoice->id);

on this code I am getting this error: Nothing to invoice for customer

[fallow falcon]

Could you please share the Request ID req_xxx? https://support.stripe.com/questions/finding-the-id-for-an-api-request

[raw latch]

request id: req_OKGlLmx1Oa8vZl

@fallow falcon did you find it?

[fallow falcon]

Looking at it...

Ok, it's an API version issue. In the recent versions this setting is exclude by default: https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/create#create_invoice-pending_invoice_items_behavior
This way you can create an empty Invoice. Are you able to set it as exclude excplicitly when creating an Invoice?

I think the setting was added only in 2022: https://docs.stripe.com/changelog#march-1,-2022
But you're using version 2020-03-02

[raw latch]

$invoice = $this->stripe->invoices->create([
'customer' => $stripeCustomer->id,
'collection_method' => 'send_invoice',
'days_until_due' => 7,
'metadata' => [
'user_group_id' => $customBillingDto->userGroup->id,
'invoice_type' => 'custom_pricing',
'include_registration_fee' => $customBillingDto->includeRegistrationFee
],
'pending_invoice_items_behavior' => 'exclude'
]);

        //add subscription invoice item
        $this->stripe->invoiceItems->create([
            'customer' => $stripeCustomer->id,
            'amount' => 750 * 100, //multiplying it to convert to  cents
            'currency' => 'USD',
            'description' => '6-Month Fill Finish Project Subscription',
            'invoice' => $invoice->id
        ]);

        //add registration invoice item
         if($customBillingDto->includeRegistrationFee){
              $this->stripe->invoiceItems->create([
                   'customer' => $stripeCustomer->id,
                   'price' => config('services.stripe.base_plan_api_id'),
                   'description' => 'One Time Registration Fee',
                   'invoice' => $invoice->id,
              ]);
         }

should this fix? right ? By the way how can I confirm which api is it using, it was working fine on my local, on local I was using different stripe account, on staging it was giving issue to me.

[fallow falcon]

This request uses your default Stripe API version, so you can find it in your Dashboard -> Developers,

[fallow falcon]

You need to test to see if this works, I can't predict it.

But you can force an API version for a specific request, to test it on local, without deploying to production: https://docs.stripe.com/libraries/set-version?lang=php

[raw latch]

in case if I did not set api version which is the current case, what could be determining it to use different api version?

[fallow falcon]

If you use different Stripe accounts on local and on prod, the reason could be that you created them at a different time and a different default API version was set.