#sir4ndr3w_best-practices
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tropic oyster
What specifically is your use case?
hidden wedge
Im currently building the checkout flow. So a person has selected the amount of users and license type (like "pro" or "base") and they get to the final checkout page where you enter your credit card details and coupons. And upon changing coupons or adding them I want to show the final price that will be deducted monthly
And currently I am creating quotes to compute the total but I was wondering if there is a more efficient way, as you have a limited amount of quotes
tropic oyster
When you apply the coupons, are they Stripe objects that you're applying directly to a subscription (or similar)? Or are you just discounting the price in your UI before any call to Stripe?
hidden wedge
Im applying them to quotes 🙂
Should I do it solely in the UI or is there a matching stripe endpoint?
tropic oyster
Any opposition to using the Checkout Session API? That way the subscription creation is (and coupon application) is deferred until after they've committed to purchase and having provided payment details via the UI
It'll handle the line item/amount computation for you when the customer applies the coupon, and you can render that in your own custom UI
hidden wedge
Yes, I was using the Checkout Session before hand but I wanted to do it customized because we need the Company Name for the billing adress and I couldnt get the form fields in the hosted UI to include that.
What requests is the hosted UI using to preview the final price though?
tropic oyster
Yes, that guide I sent uses ui_mode: 'custom' and doesn't come with any prebuilt UI components so you can design the checkout UI exactly as you need and use Payment Element to collect the card details
hidden wedge
Ah, last time I checked that was still in beta
tropic oyster
What requests is the hosted UI using to preview the final price though?
Completely internal APIs
tropic oyster
Ah, last time I checked that was still in beta
Nope, it's GA now as of a few months
hidden wedge
Okay, then I will give that another go. Many thank
tropic oyster
Related discount stuff is in beta, but you should be able to get access easily: https://docs.stripe.com/payments/advanced/dynamically-update-discounts
hidden wedge
I think that is used to actually create new discounts, but I only need to apply already existing ones
tropic oyster
No, that's to apply discounts to the session if line items change (e.g. quantity updates and you want to apply 20% off or something)
It might not be relevant, you can still apply discount when you create the session
hidden wedge
Okay I see, I will try the custom checkout session again
tropic oyster
Let us know if we can help with anything