#adrklu_best-practices
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tired sapphire
Hi there, the checkout sessions API doesn't support inline tax_rates, so you need to create them first and pass the IDs to
https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create?lang=node#create_checkout_session-line_items-tax_rates
- Are you asking about the maximum number of tax rate objects you can create in your Stripe account? I don't see any public doc mentioning about such limit.
I don't have insights on your business and I don't understand why you need to create 3000 unique tax rates everyday. Can't you reuse the tax rate objects?
lethal pond
Yep essentially just whether we will hit some limit, for context the reason we are creating so many is because each customer will have a unique % e.g., 13.1252% for customer 1, 11.5123% customer 2 etc.
Ive been thinking of just putting GST as a line item instead of using tax rates, but it seems like the invoice is not very customisable in this aspect as part of the checkout session flow.
Or we could pregen 10.000, 10.001, 10.002, 10.003, etc up to a reasonable amount and use those IDs from a table.
The GST % must be exact by law.
Insane use case sorry lol
tired sapphire
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to offer different tax rates for different customers. You might want to check with your compliance team.
lethal pond
For reference, we are doing typical 10% GST (australia), then the items being installed have government rebates/discounts as part of schemes. They do not allow GST on these rebates/discounts. So the % of tax variable as part of the total cost. We are only taxing the pre govt rebate/discount amount
https://www.solar.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-11/Solar-PV-invoice-example-with-loan-included.jpg
An example set of values
That we are attempting to translate at a bare minimum to Stripe.
So the tax % in this case is 17.9468
1000 / 5572
tired sapphire
Hmm, if I read this invoice correctly, the discounts are applied after the subtotal (i.e., 11000)?
In that case, you just need to create negative invoice items for the deductions. I don't see a need to create additional tax rates.
lethal pond
This is a bad example but yeah essentially from that full invoice we take a 10% deposit via the checkout session that will generate a invoice either like
A:
B:
Where A is line item and B is tax rate created with an API call prior
lethal pond
In that case, you just need to create negative invoice items for the deductions....
This seems much easier
tired sapphire
Yup, I think the negative amount inovice items should work for your use case. Try it out and feel free to reach out again if you have any other questions.
lethal pond
Thank you Jack, much appreciated mate! Is there a spot for me to tip you lol
tired sapphire
Happy to help!