#devangbhuva97-invoices

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grizzled bone
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can you say more about what "something [going] wrong" means exactly?

waxen siren
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"something [going] wrong" means got any error in create invoice due to pass some bad data

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We are creating multiple invoice items. So there are also chances that getting error while create any 1 invoice item

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Yes we can delete items but we need to store in local variable after creating item. Is there any better way? Similar like DB transaction commit & rollback

grizzled bone
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hmm if you pass invalid parameters you just get an error back, no item gets created and no action happens

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so I don't understand the concern

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you also wouldn't pass invalid parameters since you'd test all this code in test mode during development to iron out problems!

waxen siren
waxen siren
grizzled bone
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you get an exception from our library when creating the third one so your code either crashes or you catch it and try again

waxen siren
grizzled bone
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then if you catch an exception then you could call some other code you have to delete the existing invoice items(the API I linked above) and rollback that way, sure.

waxen siren
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Ok.. so there is not direct any way to handle like db transaction. Need to handle manually on catch by storing created items data

grizzled bone
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yes

waxen siren
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Is there any API to create bulk invoice items?

grizzled bone
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no

waxen siren
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😃

grizzled bone
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but not for one-off invoices, it's a separate API call for each item

waxen siren
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but it's not fit in our usecase

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It'll create price inside given product if we pass price_data

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Our usecase:

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We have list of products in page. Where customer will be able to choose multiple products. Products will be either recurring or onetime.

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We are only creating recurring products in stripe & onetime products maintain in our system

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Here tricky part is we are also giving to support to add setup fee with recurring - That's not support in stripe

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So now if we'll use add invoice items to charge setup fee, stripe will create new price under that product

grizzled bone
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sorry I'm a bit lost, this is a brand new question? Not sure where price_data came from..

waxen siren
grizzled bone
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So now if we'll use add invoice items to charge setup fee, stripe will create new price under that product
if you use price_data yes, but that's just how it works. You should use a separate product I'd suggest

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yeah but suddenly we're talking about subscriptions when before I thought it was one off invoices. but ok

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so what's the problem? it will generate a new Price yes, that's intentional, as it makes reporting/analysis easier when specific Prices are used for all the line items rather than being ad-hoc

waxen siren
grizzled bone
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but add_invoice_items creates Prices yes, it's intentional as I said, to make reporting more rich, so all the newer parts of the API will work this way

waxen siren
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That's great but if there will be millions of purchase for same product with setup fee, it'll create too many onetime price for setup fee

grizzled bone
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yep that's fair feedback! The team is aware of that.

Then why use price_data?

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if you're going to have same setup fee of e.g. $100 each time, just pass the price_xxx of the one you created?

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you don't have to create a new one every single time with price_data!

waxen siren
waxen siren