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gaunt muskBOT May 27, 2025, 4:06 PM

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cursive epoch May 27, 2025, 4:21 PM

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Hi hi! Let me take a peek. 🙂

candid temple May 27, 2025, 4:33 PM

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Thanks, I also noticed this: https://docs.stripe.com/api/prices/object#price_object-recurring-meter for the Price object recurring.meter, is this the meter ID or the meter name?

cursive epoch May 27, 2025, 4:35 PM

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Let's take a step back. Without using any Stripe-specific concepts, what are you trying to accomplish here?

candid temple May 27, 2025, 4:39 PM

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Sure, I am trying to migrate Customers to a new Product Billing Meter.
I have around 400 active Subscriptions, each Subscription has a Product. For this Product, there are multiple Prices, each connected to the same Billing Meter. I would like to make a new Meter and update this for all the Prices linked to the Product. Is this possible without creating new Prices?

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Sorry it's a bit hard to not use Stripe-specific concepts: I want to introduce a new version of this measurement system and have all existing pricing options for the offering use the new version. Ideally I want to do this without having to redefine the pricing options or create new ones.

cursive epoch May 27, 2025, 4:41 PM

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:chef-kiss:

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Ok awesome, thank you. Give me a moment. 🙂

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Does this mean that sum isn't behaving the way you expected it to, so you're going to do your own aggregation and then just report the total?

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Or rather, you're going to just continuously report the "current period total," I guess.

candid temple May 27, 2025, 4:43 PM

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sum is behaving as expected, but I would like to use the last aggregation method instead.

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When I created the meter, only count and sum were available.

cursive epoch May 27, 2025, 4:46 PM

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Totally fair.

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Well, we saved the best for last, clearly.

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Thank you for the setup on that one. That's ... possibly one of my best. 😂

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Ok, now that I've been sufficiently silly, let me figure out how to get you moving forward.

candid temple May 27, 2025, 4:49 PM

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Thank you for bringing humour to the situation 🥲

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Ideally I would love to just deactivate the old meter and create a new meter with the same event name, but it's not clear to me whether the Price is linked by meter ID or by meter name

cursive epoch May 27, 2025, 4:50 PM

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Oo

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Ok, so right now the collective wisdom sayeth that the likely solution is "new Prices and Meters, and then a migration", but let me confirm and flesh that out for you.

Can you share the Price ID with me so I can just doublecheck something? And then I think I can write up a li'l narrative of the approach to this - which should actually be a lot less scary than it smells right now.

candid temple May 27, 2025, 4:59 PM

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price_1REw6zCFE1KEriEVVD92xC54

cursive epoch May 27, 2025, 5:06 PM

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Do you access it using its lookup_key?

candid temple May 27, 2025, 5:08 PM

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yes

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but we also have the priceid saved for each customer in our database

cursive epoch May 27, 2025, 5:11 PM

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An aside: Do you have a test to ensure that you correctly bill in ZAR, and that its unrenderable-in-two-decimals unit price is being correctly applied?

candid temple May 27, 2025, 5:12 PM

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No we don't currently have customers using ZAR, but good point

cursive epoch May 27, 2025, 5:12 PM

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I'm not just a pretty bird, friend.

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Ok, so here's how I'd prolly (want a cracker) approach it:

gaunt muskBOT May 27, 2025, 5:18 PM

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cursive epoch May 27, 2025, 5:20 PM

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Create new Meter the same, except for using with last, and different event_name;
Create new Price the same as existing Price, except with new Meter;
Update all affected Customers to use the new Price;
Archive the old price; and
Celebrate.

celest trench May 27, 2025, 5:27 PM

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hi! fyi i'm taking over for timebox here - it looks like this question may be resolved but feel free to let me know if there are any more questions!

candid temple May 27, 2025, 5:29 PM

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thank you both 🙂 @cursive epoch @celest trench I was hoping for a less lengthy way to do this but appreciate the confirmation

cursive epoch May 27, 2025, 5:31 PM

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You're very welcome! You should be able to script all of this, and you can definitely set everything up in a Sandbox and use Test Clocks to confirm your script works exactly as you expect before you do the scary thing. 🙂

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