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honest ruinBOT Dec 5, 2025, 4:09 PM

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cyan yew Dec 5, 2025, 4:30 PM

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https://stripe.com/billing/pricing

Stripe Billing | Pricing

See pricing for Stripe Billing. Power recurring payments and subscription business models in a scalable way.

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As far as i know, there is no additional cost for that beyond the subscription fees, but support can give you a firm answer on that if you need it

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Another question is whether “Meters” can be configured for daily charges. I see that the documentation says that they work with “Price,” but I'm not quite sure how these meter uses can be charged. Can you guide me?
Yes, you could configure a daily recurring price if you wanted to invoice and collect payment for usage every day

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It's the same as this guide, but when you create the Price, you'd use recurring[interval]=day instead of month
https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/usage-based/implementation-guide?dashboard-or-api=api#create-pricing-model

plucky needle Dec 5, 2025, 4:34 PM

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Ok great, thanks!

and one more question: do these “Meters” expire? For example, if a customer buys 10 tokens, do these tokens expire for him?

cyan yew Dec 5, 2025, 4:37 PM

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Not in any sense controlled by stripe. You just report usage to use and we generate the invoices according to the pricing and cadence you specify

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What happens with the actual underlying resources/provisioning is an implementation detail for your systems to handle

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you could, for example, have a policy that purchased token credits expire after some number of days if not consumed, but stripe wouldnt know anything about that piece

plucky needle Dec 5, 2025, 4:40 PM

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Oh okay that's great... Thank you very much, I think that's all. If I have another question, I'll ask you for help again. Thank you!!

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Actually, I have another question: i see that it is possible to set a price with a “day” interval so that the invoice is generated directly at the time of payment and charged immediately. Is that correct?

honest ruinBOT Dec 5, 2025, 4:46 PM

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cyan yew Dec 5, 2025, 4:50 PM

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Can you clarify your question? I partly want to say thats how automatic invoices & payments work already by default, but I worry there is some nuance i'm missing

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With a daily price, the subscription would "renew" every day at the same time and invoice for the metered usage you reported, plus any flat fees etc. That would get charged after a 1hr draft window (which you can optionally accelerate by calling the invoice pay api directly).

plucky needle Dec 5, 2025, 4:58 PM

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Okay, so based on what you're saying, for example, if someone buys a daily recurring token, then Stripe would charge the customer every day? And there's no way to prevent that from happening? For example, I want on my project that the customers can buy 10 tokens and that's it, keep them there forever until they decide to use them. Is that possible?

nimble badge Dec 5, 2025, 5:00 PM

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👋 Hi, Synthrider has to head out, i'll be taking over the channel/thread for next 90 minutes.

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To clarify, a daily recurring metered price would aggregate usage every day and invoice them for that usage.

plucky needle Dec 5, 2025, 5:06 PM

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Could you give me an example? 😅

nimble badge Dec 5, 2025, 5:08 PM

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So the meter tracks meter_events. Then at the end of the price interval it aggregates the total usage from meter events and bills the user for that usage.

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It sounds like you want to offer tokens up front. https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/usage-based/billing-credits/implementation-guide

plucky needle Dec 5, 2025, 5:13 PM

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Yes, what I want is to offer tokens to my customers without recurrence, and for them to be able to use them whenever they want without expiration.

nimble badge Dec 5, 2025, 5:25 PM

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I think credit grants are what you want to look into then.

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