#mattia_invoice-credit-notes
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small dust
Hi 👋
I'm a little confused here. An applied credit is not an "out of band" payment. Those refer to payments you received outside of Stripe. What are you trying to do here?
charred bay
Apologise, let me better explain. Paid out of band is apparently usable only if the whole invoice amount is paid out of band, otherwise, if only a portion of the invoice is paid out of band, I can't specify a portion of the invoice to be paid out of band - that's why I apply credit notes as it's the only way to achieve what I need. Now the question is, how do I get the credit note amount of an invoice?
small dust
Can you share an Invoice ID where this occurred? It's just easier than talking in the abstract.
charred bay
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small dust
Thanks, taking a look
charred bay
What I want to know is the credit note(s) amount applied to this invoice
small dust
You mean this one? https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_fuhQMp1yewehH3
charred bay
yes
small dust
This is the note for this specific Invoice that took the amount down to 0
charred bay
correct
small dust
It isn't returned in the Invoice object itself. However, you can use the Invoice ID with the Credit Note list API to look up any credit notes associated with an Invoice: https://docs.stripe.com/api/credit_notes/list#list_credit_notes-invoice
charred bay
Alright, so I would need to fetch credit notes individually, then sum them up to get the total credited amount, correct? If so, is there no other better way to achieve this?
small dust
If all you want is the total amount credited on the Invoice, you can look at the pre_payment_credit_notes_amount property on the Invoice object
https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-pre_payment_credit_notes_amount
And then use the List API I shared to get more details, if you want them
charred bay
Worked, thank you so much.
Another question if possible, what's the difference from getting the FeeDetail object from a BalanceTransaction (to get the sum of all taxes), compared to just doing Invoice#getTotalTaxAmounts? Do they return the same amount?
small dust
Balance Transactions track all transactions that impact your account's Stripe balance. The fee_details keep track of taxes, Stripe fees, application fees, etc.
If all you are interested in is the total amount for taxes, then the Invoice property probably makes more sense
charred bay
I see, thank you
Last question
If I apply a credit note that covers all the amount of an invoice, does Stripe takes any fees from it? Like will Stripe charge me the usual % rate for using the invoices feature?
small dust
Unfortunately that one I cannot answer. We specialize in API integrations and helping devs code integrations here but we're pretty ignorant of Stripe fee policies and applications.
charred bay
Alright, no worries. Thank you though.
small dust
But let me take a look at the specific Invoice you provided earlier
Hmmm... Yeah I'm not even sure where to look because I would be looking in Balance Transactions to see if I could see any stripe_fee types
But, because this Invoice didn't change your Stripe balance, there are no associated transactions
charred bay
I notice that the invoice is "PAID", but the payment itself (where it usually shows fees and such) is "CANCELLED"
small dust
Yeah, because no funds actually moved.
charred bay
Alright, this probably means they do not charge anything on "cancelled" payments
alright, thank you for your help
fleet violetBOT
small dust
I would recommend double checking with Support: https://support.stripe.com/contact
I think it would suck to have that assumption and find out later on that it wasn't true.