#aidan-hibbard_best-practices
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tepid pivot
current price in prod: price_1S2xzNHoTeOTdiekGpDylRbB
Is there a way to bill the user, say automatically charge them at 100 uses, before they can graduate to 101
Maybe we need to move to invoices rather than subscriptions?
boreal mantle
Hi there
Hmm yeah overall this isn't possible. The closest thing is to use billing_thresholds (https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-billing_thresholds) but this doesn't advance to a new tier, it cuts an Invoice and resets the billing cycle anchor and thus would reset to the initial tier of the Price again.
tepid pivot
yeah thats kinda what I was assuming... I imagine to implement this, we'd need to track usage, and issue invoices, but we cant wait for the user to pay the invoice before we graduate them
boreal mantle
Yeah this would be pretty complex and require a lot of custom management yourself.
It would be extra complicated because you wouldn't really be able to reset the usage when they graduate the tier and thus the customer would basically get double billed.
So if you were to do something like this you likely would want to track usage outside of Stripe and just create Invoices yourself.