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late creek
Hi there, you can issue credit notes to your customer (https://docs.stripe.com/invoicing/integration/programmatic-credit-notes), and Stripe will automatically use those credits to pay subscription invoices for the same customer.
dim mantle
Hi Jack, thanks for your help! I have some concerns here, say if a sub/month is $50, and we give them $200, $50 will goes directly to their next sub, however, will the $150 carried over to the following 3 subs?
late creek
Yes you are right
dim mantle
I saw it being mentioned in the doc that The credit balance doesn’t apply to invoices created by Checkout Sessions with invoice_creation enabled. Could you please elaborate on that?
dim mantle
If we are targeting user with normal payment link, we should not worry about this case?
late creek
Hmm, what do you worry about?
dim mantle
That user may not be able to use the credit note towards their future subs?
late creek
No, I don't think that's the case, and I'd highly recommend you to test it out in test mode to get yourself familiar with it.
dim mantle
Sure! And my last question, I saw a invoice id is required when create a credit note, in my use case, it is not targeting a specific invoice, which invoice_id should I put here?
late creek
https://docs.stripe.com/api/customer_balance_transactions/object you can also create a customer balance transaction to add credits to your customer's balance. This doesn't requires an inovice ID.
dim mantle
Thank you so much for your help, really appreciated!! If I have similar questions in the future, can I comeback to this thred and continue this chat?