#jkile9_invoicing-balance
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fast depot
Hello! I don't fully grasp the description. Can you explain what you call "credit balance" and maybe an example of who pays what/when?
shell gale
As an example, let's say someone has $500 in credits on their account. They then sign up for a $100 subscription. Can I ensure that they will be charged the $100 to their attached payment method and NOT from their stripe credit balance
This may not be the way you are supposed to do it but we are using the customer invoice balance to manage their credits on our platform.
fast depot
NOT from their stripe credit balance
what do you by that? There area lot of balances and everyone uses those words to mean different things
Ah you mean https://docs.stripe.com/billing/customer/balance?
fast depot
no worries at all, you're not vague, we just named multiple balance "balance" because why would we make it easy 😂
If so what you are trying to do is unfortunately impossible. That invoicing balance applies to any Invoice and a Subscription creates an Invoice
You could clear the balance, pay the Subscription and then set the balance back but that is... not great
shell gale
Yea that seems error prone and confusing for book keeping
Hmmmm
So if we wanted to use the subscription feature as I described above, is there another way we should be managing our credits where they are not applied to subscriptions?
fast depot
I can't think of one no. You can make your own balance internally and add negative lines to each Invoice when you create them or similar, but you can't use that invoicing balance