evan_best-practices

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• evan_unexpected, 2 days ago, 8 messages

[rare acorn]

Summary of the above: I thought there was an error with the invoice because a usage+tier based product was not counting against the lower tier, but really it was correct because we have a billing threshold set and previous invoices were already sent with the free tier amount in the same month

[spring prairie]

Hi there 👋 glad to hear you were able to get to the bottom of the previous concern. I'm not sure I'm grasping the new question raised. Previewing an upcoming Invoice is the best way to preview what the user will pay when a new Invoice is generated for them. I'm not sure I understand why you would look at past Invoices to know what the next Invoice would be. Is previewing the upcoming Invoice not showing you the information you're expecting it to?

[rare acorn]

I would like to show users the total usage for their billing period

Before we had billing thresholds, the upcoming invoice is where all of this information lived. Now it's spread across multiple invoices

I'm just wondering if there is a different way to query usage for a billing period, instead of needing to go through all the invoices in a month

I presume there's not a way, and maybe the new meter API has more capabilities?

[spring prairie]

Ah gotcha, I understand now!

Hm, I'm not sure if there is a great way to do that with thresholds in place. Do you hvae a test Subscription Item handy that you can test with? I'm curious if viewing a summary of the usage for the billing period shows what you're looking for, or if that also gets split due to the thresholds.
https://docs.stripe.com/api/usage_records/subscription_item_summary_list

[rare acorn]

Here's a test SI with thresholds! si_QCzjgP2dsYn7io

the two previous invoices with a $50 thresdhold : in_1PPxf2LTnsYBwL75zBEX4XpJ, in_1PSWRZLTnsYBwL75BuoO8S0I

and the upcoming invoice: test/customers/cus_QCzicozb3fHRor/upcoming_invoice/sub_1PMZjXLTnsYBwL75OgUFvP9c

[spring prairie]

And what do you see if you use the endpoint I shared a link to, to see the summary usage for the billing period for the Subscription Item?

[rare acorn]

three summaries, it looks like one for each invoice!

That's definitely helpful

I'm unblocked here, thanks for the help.

I'm going to stick with invoices though, because we also want to show the costs associated

for context, this is a page in our app

so I'll list invoices in the billing period, and then sum the usage on that SI, and the invoice amount for those two numbers