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stuck dawnBOT Jun 23, 2025, 5:01 PM

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rodney_api, 4 days ago, 8 messages

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tawdry forum Jun 23, 2025, 5:02 PM

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Hi there

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Looks like you already found the doc that states that the limit for a Subscription is 20 Subscription Items.

placid jay Jun 23, 2025, 5:03 PM

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Hey good morning

tawdry forum Jun 23, 2025, 5:04 PM

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So overall you would want to ensure that you stay under that 20 item limit.

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The items description is based on the Product

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So yeah it would make sense to create different Products for each of the third parties here and then different Prices if that 3rd party has different rates themselves.

placid jay Jun 23, 2025, 5:06 PM

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So that 20 item limit is counted against products with multiple prices? e.g. If we have a Supplemental Services product, with 20 prices attached (all usage-based and attached to their own meter) that would count as 20 items on the subscription limit?

tawdry forum Jun 23, 2025, 5:06 PM

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Yes

placid jay Jun 23, 2025, 5:07 PM

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Ahhh ok gotcha thanks for clarifying. It felt like a bit of an anti-pattern anyways so good to know

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Would there be any way to communicate on the invoice if we had a single product/price some kind of breakdown of how that is made up internally?

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Like for example a user had various usage across 5 different supplemental services

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and we count them all on the same meter, adjust the units on the meter events depending on the service

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We were already planning on storing those kinds of records internally in our system, but if there was a way to attach a breakdown even as text or something

tawdry forum Jun 23, 2025, 5:10 PM

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The only real control you have is the Product Description: https://docs.stripe.com/api/products/create#create_product-description

placid jay Jun 23, 2025, 5:11 PM

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Makes sense, maybe the better plan is to just have the single product/price and we can communicate how that's broken down on a separate dashboard we create or something

tawdry forum Jun 23, 2025, 5:12 PM

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Err wait sorry

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The name is what is actually displayed

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But yeah, the reality is that if you are going to deal with >20 items then batching them in Stripe and displaying your own breakdown will be cleaner.

placid jay Jun 23, 2025, 5:14 PM

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All good, I think no matter what we'd have some work on our end communicating to the customer how to read their bill and get the info they'd want on our end

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Figured that might be the case but wanted to check anyway. Thanks much for clarifying

stuck dawnBOT Jun 23, 2025, 5:15 PM

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