#yuichi-hamamoto_best-practices
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- yuichi-hamamoto_api, 5 days ago, 21 messages
shadow gust
To change the price of a product, we recommend that you create a new price for the new amount, then archive the existing price by setting active to false. Instead of changing the unit_amount on the existing price, you need to create a new price to make sure that we keep the existing price as an immutable record of past transactions [0].
vital sparrow
Yes I understand that I need to recreate as I mentioned in the intial post
The problem here is how do I search the price?
Let's say I have a product with two prices,
lookup_key: "monthly"
lookup_key: "yearly"
When I recreate the prices I can't use same lookup_key
Should I not use lookup_key to look for price>
?
shadow gust
Got it.
If you're using lookup_key you'll want for it to be more descriptive for each price.
- Original Price:
lookup_key: "monthly" - Updated Price
lookup_key: "monthly20250619"
Or something along those lines.
shadow gust
List API will returns a list of your active prices.
I guess I'm not clear on your ask here
vital sparrow
but I can list price with specific lookup_key
shadow gust
No you cannot.
vital sparrow
yes you can
shadow gust
Sorry, you're right. I'm looking at the doc now.
When you create the price, you'll need to provide the lookup_key
vital sparrow
I was gonna use lookup_key to switch the price for the product, which some documents suggest but not sure if it's good idea
shadow gust
Or update the existing prices to include them
vital sparrow
The problem is I can only update its metadata and the status which indicate the price is active or not
shadow gust
The prupose of the lookup_key is to aid in price retrieval
vital sparrow
Right
shadow gust
Looking at the docs, you should be able to update price with the lookup_key [0]
Let me quickly test on my end.
vital sparrow
You are right, I can update lookup_key with api, but I can't from the dashboard?
shadow gust
You should be able to do it via the Dashboard as well. I just tested it
Head to the price you're looking to updated, click on edit and scroll to the bottom of the page. You should see "Lookup key"
vital sparrow
Oh true
But do you think using a lookup key to switch the price for the product, whether monthly or yearly, is a good idea?
When I change the price for monthly, let's call them monthly_old and monthly_new
For those who newly subscribe the product is fine
but then I need to update all subscription to monthly_new too
That means at some point monthly_old and monthly_new need to exist right
Then I feel updating lookup_key is not smart idea
shadow gust
Both do not need to exist because we recommend you archive old prices before you create new ones.
That way if you're using List, for example, you can list all of the active prices at the time and not have to worry about archived ones.
vital sparrow
What happens if renewing the subscription happens after archiving the price and before creating a new price?
They can still make invoice with archived price?
shadow gust
Oh, no they will not. However, you should be creating the new price prior to archiving the existing price.
vital sparrow
Right
So update old lookup key=> create new one=> update all the subscriptions with old price to new one=> archive?
shadow gust
If you're going to archive the old price then you may not need to add the look up.
If you're keeping both prices active that's when look up key is beneficial
vital sparrow
But I was gonna use lookup key to find price for monthly and yearly
not to differenciate old and new one
But I think I understood how I should update the price
Thank you
shadow gust
Understood. Apologies, if I didn't really understand what you're looking to achieve.,