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fallen sinewBOT Jul 23, 2025, 12:45 PM

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flint rapids Jul 23, 2025, 12:47 PM

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👋 happy to help

main rover Jul 23, 2025, 12:48 PM

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I currently have two meters set up with event names 'paper' and 'minute'

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but it seems i cant attach two meters to one subscription

flint rapids Jul 23, 2025, 12:49 PM

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main rover but it seems i cant attach two meters to one subscription

would you mind sharing the request where you saw this error?

main rover Jul 23, 2025, 12:49 PM

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im trying to do it via the stripe console

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is it possible to have two meters attached to the subscription?

flint rapids Jul 23, 2025, 12:50 PM

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even with stripe console you can get the request ID it's req_xxx

main rover Jul 23, 2025, 12:51 PM

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i havent made a request though

flint rapids Jul 23, 2025, 12:51 PM

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but it seems i cant attach two meters to one subscription
where did you get that from then?

main rover Jul 23, 2025, 12:51 PM

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theres no option to add more meters

flint rapids Jul 23, 2025, 12:55 PM

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each meter is linked to a price

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and you can have multiple prices on the same subscription

main rover Jul 23, 2025, 12:57 PM

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okay so

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i have a product
which contains my 3 subscription tiers (as 3 prices)

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i should define two new prices which are linked to those meters

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and add those to the subscription as needed?

flint rapids Jul 23, 2025, 12:58 PM

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main rover i should define two new prices which are linked to those meters

correct

flint rapids Jul 23, 2025, 12:58 PM

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main rover and add those to the subscription as needed?

yes

main rover Jul 23, 2025, 12:58 PM

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okay

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and what api would i be using to add those?

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billing.meteredEvents?
or invoiceItems?
or subscriptionItems?

flint rapids Jul 23, 2025, 12:59 PM

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you add the prices to the subscription items

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and then you record the usage https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/usage-based/recording-usage-api

Record usage for billing with the API

Learn how to record usage using the Stripe API.

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with meter events

main rover Jul 23, 2025, 1:02 PM

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so i have to do subscriptionItems.create() - where i add those two prices to the subscription, and then i can call meterEvents.create?

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ill give this a try

fallen sinewBOT Jul 23, 2025, 1:04 PM

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main rover Jul 23, 2025, 1:06 PM

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i have a follow up
since i have 2 subscriptions, and im only managing one subscription id per user,

if they change from the Tier C (where they will be on a metered usage)
to Tier B where they are not on metered usage, will i have to remove those subscription items?

plush zenith Jul 23, 2025, 1:07 PM

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hey there, stepping in for tarzan who needs to step away

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You can either remove the metered price item and add a seated price item, or you can swap out the price used on the existing item, both should work with similar results on the invoice.

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I suggest trying both, and see which gives you the invoice behaviour that you want

main rover Jul 23, 2025, 1:10 PM

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im not sure i understand -
currently, if a user attempts to upgrade or downgrade their subscription, im calling subscription.update( with some new priceID here )

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this is already working

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my concern is what happens when i add 2 new subscription items to Tier C, and whether i need to remove those 2 subscription items, should i downgrade to Tier B

plush zenith Jul 23, 2025, 1:14 PM

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Are you describing "Tier B" has just a single item, say price_1, while "Tier C" has 3 items: price_1, price_2, price_3?

And so upgrading from B to C is really adding two items?

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In that case yes I'd say that downgrading from C to B involves deleting the items with price_2 and price_3

main rover Jul 23, 2025, 1:15 PM

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Tier B - this is a recurring subscription 15$ per month
Tier C - this is a recurring subscription 50$ per month

but Tier C (in this new method that i want to implement) will have two additional items -
a metered usage for $1 per unit, and
metered usage for $0.33 per unit

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on second thoughts - could i just leave the metered price items on the account? if they are on Tier B, we wont be creating any metered events anyway, so they wont be charged

plush zenith Jul 23, 2025, 1:29 PM

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Yea, you can leave them with 0 reported usage which should have no impact as long as your price has no base cost

main rover Jul 23, 2025, 1:30 PM

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when you say no base cost, do you mean the pricing model is usage-based

plush zenith Jul 23, 2025, 1:31 PM

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metered prices can have a fixed/base cost, eg $100/mo for up to 1000 units, then 1c/unit over that or something

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so if you have something like that then leaving the item on will cost your customer even if they arent using it

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depends on your pricing model

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if your meter price is purely consumption based, no fixed/flat cost, then no problem

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