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- ben-clum_api, 4 days ago, 7 messages
- ben_tax-pricing, 5 days ago, 6 messages
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I ran out of characters, but to summarize:
how do i get a discount to apply to a prorated invoice with the upcoming_invoice endpoint?
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Hi 👋 you can't. Discounts can't be applied to prorations:
https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/prorations#prorations-and-discounts
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but when I create the actual invoice, it does apply: https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/invoices/in_0QErz0250JCmBXjUIULzOvW3
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Can you help me understand what you did for that Invoice? I don't see a coupon being applied in the creation request?
https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_6JAQeWOAyT2COh
I also don't see a proration item in that Invoice.
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the invoice was created via a subscription. I'm pretty sure the invoice was created by Stripe as a result of the creating of the subscription
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It wasn't. It was created by the request that you made that I linked to above. It is associated with a Subscription, but it wasn't created automatically by our Subscription logic.
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oh you're right, let me check
okay I see we were manually creating the invoice so it wasn't considered a "proration" at that point.
I'm confused though why you can't apply a discount to a proration invoice item. that's pretty wild.
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Because the proration is based on what the customer already paid. So the discounts on proration items are inherited from the discounts applied when the customer initially paid the amount being prorated in the update.
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sure that makes sense for existing customers with existing payments/subscriptions, but it's a brand new subscription. they've never been charged for anything before.