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cursive escarpBOT Oct 28, 2024, 1:36 PM

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final gyroBOT Oct 28, 2024, 1:53 PM

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jaunty shadow Oct 28, 2024, 1:55 PM

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Hi there 👋

I'm not sure I understand. Metered billing is for when you allow your customers to use a product and then charge them later based on usage. If you want to offer your customers a fixed amount of usage, I don't think metered billing is correct.

I think the better approach would be to track their credits/usage on your end, and process a one-off Invoice to charge them again if they need more credits before the typical Subscription renewal.

placid seal Oct 28, 2024, 2:08 PM

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Therefore, it is impossible to stop the automatic acquisition of additional credits, and the only way to implement this is to build a tracking system yourself. Thank you.
You can also provide recommendations on the following question - What is the recommended method to allow users to buy extra credits on top of their subscription using Stripe?

jaunty shadow Oct 28, 2024, 2:13 PM

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You'd probably process a one-time payment. Do you need an Invoice to go along with that payment? If so, you'd probably create a one-time Invoice:
https://docs.stripe.com/invoicing/integration/quickstart
You can use the subscription parameter when creating the Invoice to associate it with the customer's existing Subscription, if that's beneficial to your scenario:
https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/create#create_invoice-subscription

placid seal Oct 28, 2024, 2:16 PM

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Thanks

cursive escarpBOT Oct 28, 2024, 2:18 PM

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placid seal Oct 28, 2024, 2:40 PM

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Another question came to mind, is the product metadata a good place to store the number of credits per plan, eg "BASE" plan = 1000 credits, "PRO" = 5000, and these values will be stored in the metadata? Then, with each request, we will extract this value from the metadata.

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