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stray flower
What is "overage"? Do you mean extra charge? If so, there can be multiple ways to do it - using Payment Intent for off session payment, one-time invoice, or bill the one-time invoice item into next subscription
rich pike
I understand at least one way to do "one time billing".
Is there a proper way to set the “description” of the invoice to be generated there with stripe (instead of specifying it in the create invoice parameter)?
Is it a good practice to make product, price a temporary payment to set this “description” ? I am asking.
Is it appropriate to use a parameter to specify the description on these invoices in the first place?
stray flower
Which description are you referring to here? There are invoice description, invoice item description... etc. Where do you want this description to be shown?
rich pike
This is a description of the invoice itself.
https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-description
This description is shown to the user.
stray flower
For one-time invoice, the custom description can only be set at the creation request
rich pike
Yes, that's right.
What about a policy of creating a dedicated product, price, for this purpose? Would you recommend it?
stray flower
As mentioned earlier, it's possible to create a adhoc price with price_data if the price isn't for permanent usage
rich pike
Does this permanently store the new Price in the existing Product?https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoiceitems/create#create_invoiceitem-price_data
stray flower
No. It's temporary
rich pike
ok.
Does that mean that the description of the new Invoice with the InvoiceItem created with that parameter will be generated from the product?
https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/object
stray flower
description on the invoice item will be shown if it's set: https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoiceitems/create#create_invoiceitem-description
If it's not, it will take the name of the product
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