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celest tangleBOT Jul 17, 2024, 9:01 AM

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hot dagger Jul 17, 2024, 9:05 AM

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👋 happy to help

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will be with you shortly

midnight vortex Jul 17, 2024, 9:10 AM

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thanks

hot dagger Jul 17, 2024, 9:10 AM

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I'm not sure I fully understand the use case

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we don't really offer yearly subscriptions paid in monthly invoices

midnight vortex Jul 17, 2024, 9:13 AM

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by yearly subscription billed monthly I mean the users will subscribe for 1 year of service but pay monthly. So if they cancel on the 4th month, we'd like to charge a cancellation fee for the remaining 8 months.

I imagine it will be a monthly Stripe subscription and if canceled, we'll calculate how many months are left. Then we manually issue a single invoice for the cancellation fee.

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the above code snippet does that, I simulated it and the payments look like this

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only problem is that the invoice line item is just the name of the subscription

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we'd like the line item subscription to be "Cancellation fee for the remaining 8 months of service"

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add_invoice_items doesn't seem to allow setting a description https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-add_invoice_items-price_data-product

so I wonder if there is a different approach

hot dagger Jul 17, 2024, 9:20 AM

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you can use the description field https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoiceitems/create#create_invoiceitem-description on the invoice item

Create an invoice item | Stripe API Reference

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so basically if you're using the add_invoice_items, you would then update the invoice item's description

midnight vortex Jul 17, 2024, 9:24 AM

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trying it now

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this is seemingly not supported by the Ruby gem https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/update_line

hot dagger Jul 17, 2024, 9:28 AM

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not the invoice line item

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the invoice item

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https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoiceitems/update#update_invoiceitem-description

Update an invoice item | Stripe API Reference

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

midnight vortex Jul 17, 2024, 9:33 AM

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yeah, does the work

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that'll do, simpler than I thought 👍

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thanks for pointing me to that, this channel rocks

hot dagger Jul 17, 2024, 9:34 AM

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sure let me know if you need any more help

midnight vortex Jul 17, 2024, 9:35 AM

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looks like no, have a great day

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