#highgate-subscriptions
calm zenith
@hardy pine hi!
I want this price to be added to the next subscription invoice
the way to do this is generally to create a Price for the one-off amount and then add it as an invoice item to the customer :
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/invoices/subscription#adding-upcoming-invoice-items
adding as a subscription item is for recurring prices(it adds the item as a line item on all future recurring invoices)
hardy pine
Thanks! I'll try that right away.
But when creating a price, we need a "Product" right? Or create a new product using the "product_data" parameter.
I would preferably not create a new product every time, that will never be sold again, since each "one-off" payment is a new product?
Another option could be to have ONE product but with dynamic pricing?
The business case is that you need to have a subscription to be able to book certain things. Each booking will be a custom price based on the day and time booked.
So a typical invoice will be:
- Monthly subscription $10
- Booking 4.25 hours $8
- Booking 2 hours $2
etc.
calm zenith
yep you need a Product, or can create one ad-hoc. What probably makes sense is to have one Product with a name like One-off booking charge and create all these dynamic Prices against that product.
alternatively you would have to create a bunch of Products (the description on the line item is always the name of the Product)
hardy pine
Each "One off booking" line on the invoice needs some custom description added to it (like booking reference), so that the customer could match the invoice line to the actual booking. So I guess the only way forward then would be to create a new "Product" for each booking?
calm zenith
unfortunately yep, that's the only option. It's a common pain point with how this is modeled, the line items on the Invoice come from Products directly so it's hard to customise them without a lot of proliferation of Products
hardy pine
No worries! Thanks a lot @calm zenith. This was very helpful ☺️