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dense drum
The idea is that charging immediately on invoice creation is not ideal because it may cause customer confusion. We want to warn customers about an upcoming charge (but can't use subscriptions, because we don't have a regular billing period), so if they could get the invoice email and then only get automatically charged e.g. 24 hours later that would be great.
merry cipher
hello! are you talking about one-off invoices, or are these invoices related to a Subscription?
dense drum
well it's a kind of pseudo subscription
they'll happen regularly but normal subscriptions don't work because it's not a regular billing period
we'd bill on the first week of each school term, which can be every 3 months ± 3 weeks (and charging while classes aren't running isn't a great look)
so our application would let someone initiate the billing process at the end of the first week, which would trigger invoicing the students they select
sorry if that's really weirdly specific 🙃
but they'd be one-off invoices from Stripe's view
merry cipher
hrm, we don't have such a feature but you can build it. The way to go about it is when you create an Invoice, set auto_advance=true , send your email, and then you would have your own cron job to finalize those invoices after ~24 hours.
there are third parties out there which I'm aware can trigger certain workflows upon receipt of a webhook e.g. they might receive an invoice.created webhook which they will send out an email for
dense drum
out of interest, would it be possible if we did use subscriptions?
merry cipher
there's this setting for subscriptions
the shortest time for the upcoming renewal is 3 days though (not 1 day)
dense drum
ohhh I see
I'll have a look :)
just double checking, shouldn't auto_advance be false?
merry cipher
hrm
dense drum
for manual emails and collection, I mean
merry cipher
you're asking if auto_advance is false by default for one-off invoices?
dense drum
for API created invoices I thought it defaults to false
merry cipher
yep, it does - it defaults to false
dense drum
but it needs to be false otherwise stripe will attempt automatic collection, right
merry cipher
yes, it needs to be false otherwise Stripe will attempt automatic collection
dense drum
perfect
alright, I'll see how it goes
thank you for the help!
have a great day :)
