b33fb0n3_best-practices

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[thin lintel]

Hi! How are you creating the Invoice? Do you have an example?

[tight vine]

Currently I am just planing. I created nothing yet

[thin lintel]

The docuemnt you linked mentions rounding the hours: https://stripe.com/resources/more/how-to-make-an-invoice-for-hours-worked#how-to-itemize-hours-worked-by-project-or-task:~:text=Round with consistency%3A Rounding time is normal%2C but it needs to be fair and consistent. Whether you round to the nearest 5%2C 10%2C or 15 minutes%2C set a standard policy%2C and be transparent with your clients about your system.

Round with consistency: Rounding time is normal, but it needs to be fair and consistent. Whether you round to the nearest 5, 10, or 15 minutes, set a standard policy, and be transparent with your clients about your system.

[tight vine]

ok, then I would round from 13.77 to 13.75. How to do it now with stripe? I would like to use stripe to send the invoice

[thin lintel]

You will need to round it down to an integer. So either 13 or 14.

[tight vine]

But thats pretty unfair against my customer. The article you linked tell me to round to the nearest 5,10 or 15 minutes. Not the full hour.

Whether you round to the nearest 5, 10, or 15 minutes

Imagine I would always round up to the next full hour. I, as the freelancer would always receives more than I actually did. If I always round down, I as the freelancer would always get paid less, then I worked for...

That cant be the solution. The API doesnt offer anything?

[thin lintel]

If rounding doesn't work for your case, you can consider using minutes instead of hours.

That is also the suggestion in the document.

[weak tundra]

You could also use a fractional line item for the . 77 hours. So two total line items, 1x $77 and 13x $100

[tight vine]

yea, the worked hours can variate from month to month. So at the end I would've a lot of single used lines items.

The best I can think of is something like:

"Hourly Rate" and as quantity: "13.77". For stripe it means: "Use the product 'Hourly Rate' and the default price of it and multiple it times the quantity of '13.77' "

[weak tundra]

I don't think that'll work as quantity needs to be an integer

[tight vine]

oh ok. Which quantity can be a float or double?

[weak tundra]

None, they're all integer. Hence our recommendations up to this point