meteograms-metered-billing | Stripe Developers | Page 1

vale mountain Sep 22, 2021, 9:52 PM

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usage records are only integers so no decimals aren't supported.

But what is the use-case behind this? wondering if there's a different way to handle it

can you explain more?

white canopy Sep 22, 2021, 10:01 PM

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Well there are lots of examples where decimal quantities are quite normal. Let's say I offer a subscription service to customers for the supply of sugar. A customer might consume 5kg of sugar one day, and 6.5kg the next. Or it could be 12.3 litres of beer. This would be handled quite nicely within a metered billing context, if it were possible to deal in decimal quantities. Don't see what the problem would be at the back-end because it's just summing numbers at the end of the day to work out how much the customer should be charged on a per-kg or per-litre price.

vale mountain Sep 22, 2021, 10:13 PM

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would it work if you create a Price with unit_amount_decimal and then your usage records end up being integers in grams or ml ?

white canopy Sep 22, 2021, 10:31 PM

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Possibly. I'll try to get my head around that one.

white canopy Sep 22, 2021, 10:49 PM

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Isn't the problem then that it's not counting in grams, but tens of grams (the price is adjusted by a factor of 100, not 1000), and it just becomes very confusing all round... not least for the customer. Easier just to allow decimal quantities?

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