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crude crescent
hi there!
Preview change API accepts multiple discounts in discounts array
can you calrify what you mean by this? maybe share a link to a Stripe documentation that mention this?
thorn grail
Oh yes sure. Here https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/create_preview#create_invoice-discounts
What I meant was that before a user subscribes we allow them to view a preview invoice. For that we use this "Create a preview invoice" endpoint. In this endpoint we can specify the discounts param to indicate what discounts we will apply to the subscription. This discounts array accepts more than 1 entries
However, when we create a subscription this discounts param on the "Create a checkout session" params doesn't accept more than 1 entry. Here is the doc link
https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-discounts
I would have expected the preview invoice API to fail too if you cannot specify more than one discounts when creating a subscription. But unfortunately it doesn't
crude crescent
thanks for the clarification!
yes that feature is available on the Invoice endpoint, but not on Checkout Session (at least for now).
thorn grail
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That would mean we need to use the create subscription endpoint instead of checkout sessions just to support this?
And any timeline about this? When can we expect checkout sessions to support multiple discounts?
crude crescent
That would mean we need to use the create subscription endpoint instead of checkout sessions just to support this?
that's one option yes. or you could combine both discount into a single discount?
And any timeline about this? When can we expect checkout sessions to support multiple discounts?
no idea if/when that will be improved, sorry.
thorn grail
combine discounts? As in create a separate coupon that effectively gives the same discounts as the two or is there something else that I am not aware of?
crude crescent
As in create a separate coupon that effectively gives the same discounts as the two
yes that's what I had in mind
thorn grail
Interesting. Thanks for the help though. I will talk to the team how we wanna get around this