#alexm_checkout-adaptivepricing
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pine citrus
alexm_checkout-adaptivepricing
Yes I think it only works with customer_email in that case. You can force an address in a specific country on that Customer though to test
thick yarrow
ok, is it the same in production?
pine citrus
yes and in production we use the IP of the customer too
thick yarrow
Sure, but say I already have a customer (US) created and he used to see a price in EUR. Now I activate the adaptive pricing, create a new price with 2 currencies EUR and USD. If I use the previously created customer and create the checkout session, will he see the USD or EUR price?
pine citrus
Depends on multiple factors: do they have a real US address on the Customer object? Where do they load the Checkout URL from?
thick yarrow
The customer is redirected to the checkout URL by my app server. It might not have the address, for example, if previously he just opened the checkout and closed it without making a purchase, he would not have the billing details, but just the email and the stripe customer id associated.
pine citrus
okay then in that case we would use their IP address when they load the Checkout Session's URL for the first time
thick yarrow
ok, so you're saying that in production if I create a checkout session with an existing customer it will show the most relevant currency for the user right?
using the Checkout Session customer field
pine citrus
yes
You don't even need to configure the Price in other currencies. We do this automatically for you
thick yarrow
are you sure? this does not work on the test env
I know stripe previously had issues if you had a customer that paid in a currency, say EUR, you could not create a checkout session in a different currency for that customer. Is this fixed?
pine citrus
ah my bad you are using Subscriptions, that;'s completely different. so yeah in that case it will be locked to the currency of their first Invoice
thick yarrow
and what's the thing that does the automatic price conversion?
pine citrus
It's Adaptive Pricing but it's only for one-time payments
thick yarrow
ah, ok. Then could we maybe update the docs? It does not mention anything about one-time payments
https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout/adaptive-pricing#checkout
Any plans on adding this feature for recurring payments?
pine citrus
It does https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout/adaptive-pricing#restrictions where we say subscription mode doesn't work
And no plans for recurring payments for now
thick yarrow
ah right, I missed that 🙈
pine citrus
one-time payment is easy since we can calculate the exchange rate now. With Subscriptions it's a lot more complex as you can't charge the customer a different price each month and if we lock their currency at the exchange rate you could lose a lot of money if the exchange rate drops next month.
By having you pick your prices we make sure you make a conscious decision on how to price in each currency
We definitely want to offer something in the future, but we haven't really figured out what that'd look like yet 😦
thick yarrow
Makes sense. So for now the alternative would be to have multiple currencies for the same price id right?
pine citrus
yes
thick yarrow
I'll experiment a bit and maybe I'll come back with other questions.
Thanks for the support 🙂
pine citrus
sure thing!
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