#ethan_best-practices
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high plaza
Hi! We currently use the invoice api to generate an invoice with the first subscription payment included in the line items. Then after it's paid off we create a subscription as a trial. However we are interested in creating subscriptions as 'active' so we can purposefully include trials
We thinking just one price for the subscription
I believe from this doc https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/create?lang=node that you can include line items as a one-time purchase when creating a subscription, however I don't see any way to handle shipping tax & details
full atlas
I'm not sure I understand your use case. can you share a concrete example? something like:
- on January first, user pays $20 to start their subscription
- then we xxxx
- and one month later, the user pays $xx
high plaza
Sure, we want a single invoice to contain a subscription costing $10/month. They pay $10 now, and $10/month on a recurring basis. In the same invoice we want to include a book shipped to the customers house, with tax calculated by Stripe.
full atlas
then create a subscription with two prices:
- a recurring price of $10
- a one time price for the price of the book
and the first invoice will be for $10 + book price. and the next invoicex will be only $10.
high plaza
Okay but how do I calculate the shipping taxes for the book in the created stripe subscription? I don't see a shipping_cost or shipping_details in the available properties
full atlas
then you would add 3 prices to the Subscription: the recurring one, the price of the book, and the shipping cost.
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high plaza
If that is the case, what tax code do I use for the shipping cost? https://docs.stripe.com/tax/tax-codes the only tax code that sounds right is txcd_92010001 which says is only for cases where the shipping charge is optional. In our case they will be required to pay for shipping of the book.
ivory juniper
👋 Hi there! I'm taking over for my colleague. Let me take a look
From what I can see, that tax code seems to be fine, and it's the closest match.
If you don't want to use that one, then as the documentation says, you could apply a general tax code like "txcd_20030000"
high plaza
Hi arran! One more question we use Stripe shipping rates in our current workflow through invoices. Can I use those in the Subscription?
ivory juniper
Sorry, no, Subscriptions don't currently support Shipping Rates. This would have to be added as a regular line item