zaidlearnly_best-practices

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[tulip pecan]

Hi 👋

Billing Meters are a component of Stripe Subscriptions. If you want to use Billing Meters you have to use Stripe Subscriptions.

[latent geyser]

So my customers will have to setup a recurring Subscription? Currently when you setup subscription, you have to add a price id to it, what happens when I add different meters, i.e expensive model vs cheaper model, how would my previous customers be able to use their credits towards new meter?

[tulip pecan]

You also have to use Prices to use Billing Meters.

And each Price is associated with a Billing Meter

The CreditGrant appears to only consider the Customer ID so I think it should work for both Prices

But I would recommend building a test scenario for that

[latent geyser]

So far this is what I have:

1 meter -> i.e tts_characters
1 Product (id1) -> 1 usage based price on the meter

Missing:
Subscription

Questions:

1. When I create a subscription, would the duration remain forever and my customer will be charged based on usage?
2. When I create current subscription I can attach product (id1) to it, what happens when I have a new meter (e.g speech_to_text_characters), how will my existing subscribed customers get metered for it?

[tulip pecan]

1. What do you mean the "duration would remain forever"? If you mean would the Subscription continue or cancel at some point in the future then yes the Subscription will continue on the billing cycle determined by the Price object until you or the customer cancel it.

2. You attach a Price that is linked to a Meter object and the events that occur on that Meter object inform how much your customer is billed for each billing period

If you are considering whether or not this approach will work for you, I strongly recommend coding a basic simulations in Test mode to validate the behavior. It will also help you gain a better understanding of how all the parts fit together

I recommend you start here

[latent geyser]

I did that, thats why asking in the future, when I introduce more meters, my existing customers wont get charged for it because it would not have been attached to their subscriptions

seems like the best thing for me to reduce errors is use meter as a dollar value, and keep the logic of event name to dollar value in my application logic.

can you confirm?

[wild dew]

Hi, taking over as my teammate needs to step away. Let me catch up