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[peak burrow]

I am actually trying to do this as a work around for a subscription change mid billing cycle on a metered billing.

I am basically trying to take the quantity metered so far in the billing cycle, and add it as a extra invoice item on the invoice.

In order to do so, i use meter event summaries to gather the quantity used thus far in the billing cycle.

Now since this is metered billing, the create invoice item api doesnt let me send a "recurring price", so i cannot just send the price ID

so my workaround right now is to go fetch the price amount and amount decimals, and then send that to the API, but it doesnt let me send both. I am suprised that I cannot send both, when they are dependent fields.

"You may only specify one of these parameters: unit_amount, unit_amount_decimal."
is what I get

[loud grail]

hey there, yes you cannot send both, you should send only unit_amount_decimal if you require that

What amount are you trying to represent?

[peak burrow]

.02

When I get that from my price

it gives unit_amount = 2

and unit_amount_decimal = 2

[loud grail]

If you're within the range of normal amounts, you may not need decimal at all'

[loud grail]

Does just using unit_amount=2 do what you expect?

[peak burrow]

this is what the stripe price gives me

[loud grail]

What do you mean?

[peak burrow]

when i do a price read on price_1PEKx9Btu9lUy7zy2euvo5vB

which is my metered billing price

representing $.02

(2 cents)

[loud grail]

Sure, but but thats not a creation, reading back is different

[peak burrow]

it shows in stripe as unit_amount : 2 and unit_amount_decimal 2

so you are saying i can get 2 cents by sending 2? how does it know to do the currency shift?

[loud grail]

What currency shift? 2 is 2 cents if usd

[peak burrow]

I would of expected this to be 2 / 10^2

well for USD price there are only 2 decimals

but i am writing code to potential handle any scenario

so decimal amounts come into play

[loud grail]

then you would use unit_amount_decimal only

[peak burrow]

Let me give it a shot, perhaps i am misunderstanding why the read is giving me 2

one sec

OK that worked. Sorry for the question

I thought decimals was referring to decimal places for a shift

but seems it is simpler than I thought.

Thanks for your help and sorry for the trouble.