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brisk dove Sep 17, 2021, 9:01 AM

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@craggy glacier hi! how exactly are you integrating, are you using Checkout or Invoices, or something else? In general yes, you can just add a line item with any name you wish to display some tax you've pre-calculated I would think.

craggy glacier Sep 17, 2021, 9:20 AM

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Thanks for the reply and you are indeed correct. I'm using Checkout and creating a Session so I can just add line items for Shipping and Taxes. But my one remaining problem is I can't do the same for discounts as that would involve a negative amount. If you have any ideas for that I would be very grateful.

brisk dove Sep 17, 2021, 9:38 AM

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hmm let me check, I thought we supported negative line items in Checkout but maybe not

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yeah, we don't actually, so the only option is to create and apply a coupon to the Session to apply the discount https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/discounts so you'd maybe want to craft an ad-hoc Coupon object that would have the effect of taking off the amount you calculated (using https://stripe.com/docs/api/coupons/create#create_coupon-amount_off instead of percent_off makes that easier)

craggy glacier Sep 17, 2021, 11:50 AM

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I'm looking at this now but it seems that I have to create a coupon object for every discount that a customer is given. Then my dashboard is going to be full of unwanted coupons, no? I am asking in case I am missing something as where you say, "ad-hoc Coupon" is it possible to just set a discount amount when creating a session?

brisk dove Sep 17, 2021, 11:51 AM

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yeah you'd end up with a lot of coupons on your account. you could just ignore them but I know it's not great

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and no, you can't add a discount any other way

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