#xavi3rk_best-practices
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polar pine
broken perch
Hi! I'm having doubts about how to set this up.
broken perch
First I've made a product for charging the credits to the customer. But i don't understand how this gets added as credit to the customer.
sleek lavaBOT
broken perch
Then I've made a meter to track the message consumption. Here the issue is that messages have different costs depending on the country is sent.
I need to make a meter for each message price?
The other doubt I have is that if I don't want the user to send messages if they run out of credits, I should check the credit balance before accepting the message? Is this a good practice?
sick field
Hey there. Sounds like you're looking for a prepaid solution, which is now in Public Preview. I think you'll find this guide useful: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/usage-based/billing-credits/implementation-guide
broken perch
Hi Dougal, thanks for your help. I've read this, but my only question is: I should add a product for the user to purchase the credit, then listen for the purchase event, and then, through the API, add the credits to the customer account?
And regarding the different prices for each message I should have a different meter for each country?
sick field
Yes, that sounds correct. It might be simpler to just have one meter though, instead of different ones for each country, and maybe maintain your own mapping of how many credits for each country message, and deduct them accordingly
broken perch
Ok, so you say to have a meter that has a $0.001 cost and depending on the message cost send for example 10 usages to deduct $0.01 from the credit
sick field
Yes, exactly
broken perch
Ok, thanks! Any other consideration I should have regarding billing-credits ?
sick field
I don't think so, but if anything else comes up specific to your integration, don't hesitate to reach out