apostolis_best-practices

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[misty basin]

Hi! Looking in your query!

I believe you should be able to use the credit balance summary for this: https://docs.stripe.com/api/billing/credit-balance-summary/retrieve

[mystic cloak]

From my tests the balance is only updated after an invoice is issued.

Hmm, I have subscribed the user to the product as well

So my understanding is that the grant would only be applied once the invoice is issued.

I assume the alternative is to issue invoices on demand, if that would help

[snow basin]

👋 taking over for my colleague. Let me catch up.

[mystic cloak]

In future, this will also take into account any usage that hasn’t yet been invoiced for a customer.

From https://docs.stripe.com/api/billing/credit-balance-summary/object

[snow basin]

you can actually retrieve the billing credit grants per customer https://docs.stripe.com/api/billing/credit-grant/list#list_billing_credit_grants-customer

this would give you the credit grant ID

[mystic cloak]

How do I get its remaining balance next?

[snow basin]

then you would retrieve the credit balance summary for a customer and filter by credit grant https://docs.stripe.com/api/billing/credit-balance-summary/retrieve#retrieve_billing_credit_balance_summary-filter-type

[mystic cloak]

That would only give back the amount after an invoice is issued

See my comment above:

In future, this will also take into account any usage that hasn’t yet been invoiced for a customer.

[snow basin]

until we add this, what you can do is to create a preview of the next invoice, and reduce the amount from the available_balance

you must only take the invoice items that refer to that meter of course

[mystic cloak]

I'll take a look thanks

[snow basin]

let me know if you need any more help

[mystic cloak]

Is there a way to know which grant is used in the preview invoice? E.g. I created 2 grants and I can see in the preview invoice:

        "pretax_credit_amounts": [
          {
            "amount": 24830,
            "credit_balance_transaction": null,
            "type": "credit_balance_transaction"
          },
          {
            "amount": 3000,
            "credit_balance_transaction": null,
            "type": "credit_balance_transaction"
          }
        ],

Is there any way to know which grant each entry is for?

[snow basin]

I don't think you could by directly looking at the invoice itself

[valid beacon]

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