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dusky hedgeBOT
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violet pewter
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It should be all line items as far as I know. If you test this in test mode we will simulate that properly

quasi acorn
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How do I view an invoice's period in test mode?

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Okay, so I created an invoice in test mode with line items described in the screenshot.
Both period_start and period_end is 1736783311
Is this as implemented?

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Invoice FF3D728C-0001
/v1/invoices/in_1QgpsYFSk9qAl2K5iId9NvoW

violet pewter
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I know you can see it if you retrieve it via the API

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Thanks for the ID

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Ah, apologies I was wrong there. I see we say in our API ref that this "the usage period during which invoice items were added to this invoice" but I am unclear on what that is considered to be for these one off invoices. Sorry I thought we were talking about a different period. Looking in to this again

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vale totem
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Hi 👋

I'm stepping in as my colleague needed to go. As our docs point out, period_start and period_end are designed to capture the usage period during which items were added to this Invoice.

https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-period_end

They also look back 1 period for Subscription invoices.

If you create an Invoice that is a one-off and already has InvoiceItems that is populates with, then the period_start and period_end are the same value.

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For details on the time period covered by the line items in an Invoice, we recommend examining the period property for each line_item

quasi acorn
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So if I am making a one-off invoice with line items with the following periods, dec24-jan24 and jan24-feb25, what would be the resulting invoice period?

vale totem
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The data in the Invoice period_* fields would just represent when you created that Invoice. In these cases you would review the periods for each line item. Since each line item has a different period, it doesn't make sense to think of an "Invoice period" in the sense of a span of time these funds pay for.

Our recommendation (in the docs) is to review the periods for each line item

quasi acorn
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in_1QZJcBAa9khsG9rgBUIdMHFu
in_1QPC6DAa9khsG9rgpIYx6Qrc
Then can I get an explanation on these invoices and why they are one month long periods?

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both have the same period, but created roughly 1 month apart

vale totem
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Looking into this. I would expect that for an Invoice related to a Subscription.

violet pewter
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Hey Snufkin has to step out and I am back looking in to this. Apologies that it is taking some time.

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One quick question I have reading over this again: can you tell me more about what you are trying to do overall? Is there some info about the invoice or its items that you were originally looking to this field to find?