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ripe apex
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Use case 1: Membership subscription payments.
This is a recurring monthly or yearly payment.
The prices rarely change.
Affiliate marketing connect IDs get rewarded for a portion of the sale.

Use case 2: Donation one time and subscription payments.
This can either be a recurring or one time payment that goes directly to my platform.
Prices get passed into a form by the user and can be any random amounts.
Different customers can donate the same or different amounts.
I have a custom form where the user selects their subscription interval and they can type in their custom subscription amount or one time amount.

Use case 3: Author Tip one time and subscription payments.
This can either be a recurring or one time payment that goes to a stripe author connect id and my platform gets a fee.
Prices get passed into a form by the user and can be any random amounts.
Different customers can tip the same or different amounts.
I have a custom form where the user selects their subscription interval and they can type in their custom subscription amount or one time amount.

Use case 4: Cart payments
A user could buy one or more items forever in their shopping cart.
This is a one time payment only.
Prices are all random depending on how much the sum of the cart items are.
Affiliate marketing connect IDs or Author connect IDs get rewarded for a portion of the sale

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Code: https://dpaste.org/cHdoX

Please check and see if I am on the right track.

For the product IDs, I am not sure where I would use "Customer Chooses Price", having a product ID with no prices, having a product ID with prices.

night cipher
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Hi @ripe apex thanks for waiting

ripe apex
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no problem

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thanks for getting back to me

night cipher
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Ok, so basically your use cases are either subscrpitions or one-time payments. And yes Stripe can support both. However, we don't have built-in solution for Affiliation and rewards, this is something that you need to build by yourself.

ripe apex
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Yes, I built all of it by myself, I just want to make sure I am setting up the checkout sessions and product ids and price ids the correct way

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there is more than one way to code things too, if you have recommendations I would love to hear them too

night cipher
ripe apex
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Yes, I built the code already, I mainly am looking for a code review from you and any best practices. Did you look at the dpaste link?

night cipher
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I noticed that you divide the value by 100

"application_fee_amount": int(converted_amount * settings.STRIPE_CONNECT_TIP_PERCENT/100),

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The application_fee_amount should be in the currency's smallest unit (e.g., cent). For example, if you want to charge $1.00, you should set 100

fossil urchinBOT
ripe apex
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This is my converted_amount:

converted_amount = int(round(amount,2) * 100)

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That is the value the user types into the form

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"STRIPE_CONNECT_TIP_PERCENT":"50",

Or 50% in this case

stray surge
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👋 Taking over this thread, catching up now

ripe apex
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sounds good

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The more programmer feedback the merrier, I really want to get these codes right with the scenarios and the product ids and prices.

stray surge
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The code looks fine to me from the integration perspective. I'd recommend testing all the Checkout Session integration and ensuring that they meet your business requirements

ripe apex
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The codes all work, but then I am confused as to how to set this up:

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As you can see, I gotta be doing something wrong here.

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The reason why Donation has 206 is because I was creating a price ID and passing it to the checkout session.

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Then I stopped doing that, that is yet another way to code things...

stray surge
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What is the problem you're facing? Could you share the actual and expected behaviors?

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It'll be helpful to share the Checkout Session ID (cs_xxx) along with your explanation, so that I can understand the problem better

ripe apex
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I would think Course Membership needs 2 Price IDs: Yearly and Monthly. Then if inflation/deflation occurs, I would create different price IDs.

For donation and author tips since they are similar, I guess I would do what Author Tip does. I made some transactions with that, and all the prices get created behind the scenes but they do not populate on this page. I guess that is a good thing? Not sure what happens with duplication? Each of the prices are random here.

For course orders / cart orders the prices are random based on the cart item sums.

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I mainly need to figure out what the best way is to setup this product catalog and then have it translated via code the correct way.

I think I got it figured out correctly with the dpaste code the way it is now. But when creating a product with that purple button what the heck do I do to configure it correctly?

stray surge
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I would think Course Membership needs 2 Price IDs: Yearly and Monthly. Then if inflation/deflation occurs, I would create different price IDs.
In such a case, you will create new prices and update them in the existing subscriptions

For donation and author tips since they are similar, I guess I would do what Author Tip does. I made some transactions with that, and all the prices get created behind the scenes but they do not populate on this page. I guess that is a good thing? Not sure what happens with duplication? Each of the prices are random here.
You can use subscription update with the ad-hoc price using price_data property: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-items-price_data

Stripe doesn't create a permanent price for ad-hoc price creating through price_data property, so there won't be any duplicates on the prices if price_data is used.

I mainly need to figure out what the best way is to setup this product catalog and then have it translated via code the correct way.
Product is just a wrapper for the product information. The actual charge amount is based on the prices configured inside the product. You can either create a permanent price in the product or use ad-hoc price with price_data property.

"Customer chooses" price can be used for initial Checkout Session creation whereas you can use price_data property for future price update if necessary

Update a subscription | Stripe API Reference

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ripe apex
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Okay, we are good on Course Memberships.

lofty maple
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Hi I m using stripe for payment gateway in my app.
I use customer.subscription.updated webhook events.
when I get this event, I use api for getting active subscription.
this api give me more than one subscription.
I checked this in stripe console and one of this result is incomplete or expired.
how can find active subscription from fetched list in my server.
I used this logic:
Subscription.list(SubscriptionListParams.builder().setCustomer(customerId).build());

fossil urchinBOT
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ripe apex
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hmm, I did not think of doing a subscription update against author tip or donations. Maybe I will do that

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So the product catalog price ids don't really matter? Like those 206 donation ones?

stray surge
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A Checkout Session will always create a new subscription. You shouldn't use the Checkout Session to manage an existing Subscription. Update Subscription API should be used instead

ripe apex
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So "Customer chooses" price can be used for donations, author tips, and course orders/cart?

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gotcha

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So in that case, I should always see the number of price ids in the catalog never incrementing like they do with donations previously did?

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I imagined Customer Chooses meant "the prices always change" and are never fixed.

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But then Author Tip is not using that, but I am still successful with the transactions.

stray surge
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"Customer chooses" should be used when you allow the customer to enter the amount he/she prefers, i.e. you don't know the amount before hand. For the amount that you know what to charge, you can either create a permanent price or ad-hoc price using price_data

ripe apex
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Okay are you thinking that the customer should type in their price inside the checkout session? Because I am having them type in the amounts before the checkout session gets created.

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But cart orders do not get typed in beforehand by the user, they get summed up by my system

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I will never know the amount beforehand though for cart stuff. It is always random like you are ordering stuff on Amazon

stray surge
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are you thinking that the customer should type in their price inside the checkout session?
Not really. "Customer chooses" is the behaviour of allowing the customer to enter the amount on his/her own in the Checkout Session. If you let the customer enters in your website before creating a Checkout Session, you shouldn't create a price with "Customer chooses"

ripe apex
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just the default create api call, nothing fancy

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So since I never allow users to type any amounts inside or on the stripe checkout page, I should never use Customer Chooses?

stray surge
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So since I never allow users to type any amounts inside or on the stripe checkout page, I should never use Customer Chooses?
That's right!

Or can I get away with https://docs.stripe.com/api/products/create and never touch the product again for all 3 of those product ids? Cart, Donation, Tip.
If you use Checkout Session to create ad-hoc price_data and product_data, it's not necessary to create a permanent product: https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-line_items-price_data

Product will be needed when updating a subscription since Subscription Update API only supports ad-hoc price, price_data, but not ad-hoc product, product_data

Create a product | Stripe API Reference

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

Create a Session | Stripe API Reference

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ripe apex
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Okay good, that helps. Wow, I figured I would make a product ID to be able to better categorize things for reporting purposes maybe.

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Should I still create a product IDs then? Because donation and author tips do involve subscriptions too.

stray surge
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Creating product ID isn't a big lift and you can trace which the price belongs to for easier management

ripe apex
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cool, i will make one for all of them then lol.

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https://docs.stripe.com/api/prices/create Would you say I should never do this? Create a price id just like this shows and pass the Price ID into the checkout session? Just use the checkout session price_data instead?

Create a price | Stripe API Reference

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

stray surge
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https://docs.stripe.com/api/prices/create Would you say I should never do this? Create a price id just like this shows and never pass the Price ID into the checkout session? Just use the checkout session price_data instead?
This will be up to your business decisions. If your price is dynamic for each customer, i.e. each customer has a different charge amount, then I'd recommend using price_data. If the price is the same for all customers, then I'd recommend creating a permanent price using Create Prices API

Create a price | Stripe API Reference

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

ripe apex
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Okay perfect. Thank you so much. I have been so confused for days on this and I was asking not just you and other stripe folks too. Finally I can rest easy.

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You were the one who finally helped me

stray surge
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No problem! Happy to help 😄

ripe apex
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Until next time haha. There is another product I am thinking of making, but stay tuned. I have to do more research first. But after that is done, I will be done with this monster.