#stephen_price-id
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- stephen-crosby_api, 6 days ago, 6 messages
royal cove
@cursive vault that's impossible, we don't let you set the id of the Price. We generate it ourselves.
stephen_price-id
cursive vault
It isn't impossible, I can do it from the dashboard
royal cove
yes that's a Dashboard only feature that we don't support in the API. It's likely because you use a much older version of our API called the Plans API which we replaces in 2020 with the Prices API
cursive vault
hm. good idea. maybe if I use an older API version I can do this?
royal cove
We discourage this, we don't want most users to ever do this.
So why do you absolutely need this?
cursive vault
i have a very inflexible reporting team that has an annoying, but critical reporting process and they parse meaning from these IDs. I have provided them the same meaning using metadata fields but they can't spare the time to use it, so they continue to extract meaning from the ID fields
royal cove
The only way I can think of is to use the Create Plan API https://docs.stripe.com/api/plans/create which is our older API. When you call that one you can pass the undocumented parameter id to what you want. And when you do that it will create a Price with the same exact id. So that might work for you
cursive vault
yep. and then maybe i can then use the price API to update it to add the new params that are unsupported in the old API. I will try it. Thank you
royal cove
what params are you talking about?
cursive vault
billing_scheme for one:
(ruby) price = Stripe::Price.update(plan.id, price_attributes, stripe_version: '2020-08-27')
eval error: (Status 400) (Request req_oVTydbrE8022dv) Received unknown parameters: billing_scheme, unit_amount
a few of my products have tiered billing scheme
royal cove
that exists on the Plan API too though
You can't update a Price's amount/tiers after the fact so you have to set this all up through the Plan API
cursive vault
Confusingly, I actually can change the price to tiered, but only via the dashboard :/
royal cove
yeah it's a Dashboard only feature in case someone went too fast and before the Price is updated.
I tried to block this feature since it makes developers so confused but I was overruled 😦
cursive vault
I am considering using the dashboard as an API endpoint. It does exactly what I need, posting to https://dashboard.stripe.com/v1/prices/<price_id>
I'm sure this is unsupported, but I gotta get this done, and can't make any typos clicking around the dashboard
royal cove
This is a mistake, and we likely will detect you faking the Dashboard and ban you at some point.
cursive vault
Its a one-time setup that I need to do. Only maybe 50 requests
royal cove
up to you really
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