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Hello! Not sure I understand. Are you trying to retreive the amount you set for those currencies from the API?
fresh marlin
retrieve the price in a specific currency
For example, I need the currency in CAD to make the checkout session, how do I get the CAD currency for that product?
zinc scroll
You mean one of the currencies you specified or one you haven't specified?
Oh, okay. There's no API for that. See here for details: https://docs.stripe.com/currencies/conversions#foreign-exchange-rates
fresh marlin
so I have a product with two prices: price A in USD and price B in CAD. I want to make a checkout session with the CAD currency, how do I make sure the price I retrieve is the CAD one?
and price A is the default one
zinc scroll
You would specify Price B when you create the Checkout Session.
You specify the specific Price ID here: https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-line_items-price
fresh marlin
I only know the product id here, how would I retrieve price B for the product ID, given that the default price is price A
zinc scroll
You have to specify a Price ID, you can't just use the Product ID.
zinc scroll
You can list all Prices for a Product: https://docs.stripe.com/api/prices/list#list_prices-product
Is that what you need?
fresh marlin
is there a way we can get the price based on the currency? does the API support something like this?
zinc scroll
No. Sorry, I'm just not quite understanding your issue. You're the one who created the Prices, so you should already know the currencies involved. Typically people keep the Price IDs and other info about them they need (like currency) on their end so they don't have to check with the API every time.
Can you provide more context and details about why you're trying to fetch a specific Price with a specific currency via the API? Maybe there's a better alternative I can suggest.
fresh marlin
Sure I can add more clarity to this
I have a product with two price: one in USD (price A, default price) and price B in CAD. The reason we're doing this is to allow our CAN customers pay the same amount as our US customer without them paying the exchange rate.
When we're creating the checkout sessions, the developers only have access to the product ID (we don't want to store the price ID in the code base since it changes frequently) so I want to be able to get price B for my CAN customers and price A for my US customers when I'm creating the checkout sessions
zinc scroll
Gotcha. You would need to use the Price list API I linked to above to get all the Prices for the Product in question, then loop through them until you found the correct CAD one.
I recommend you use auto-pagination: https://docs.stripe.com/api/pagination/auto
zinc scroll
I guess you could use the Search API, but I wouldn't recommend it if your Prices are frequently changing: https://docs.stripe.com/api/prices/search
The Search API has a delay, but the list API doesn't.
fresh marlin
okay, sounds good! thanks for presenting me all the options
zinc scroll
Happy to help!