Sagar Thakkar-price-api-error | Stripe Developers | Page 1

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 10:57 AM

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Hey! What's the use case for a one-time subscription payment?

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Are you also using a recurring price?

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:01 AM

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I have 2 use cases.

Seller can define the recurring package. ex: charge $50 monthly for 12 months.
Seller can define the one-time charge package. ex: charge $500 in a single payment.

Although, recurring use cases work perfectly.

I am trying to same price id into subscription API, and that gives me an error.

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 11:04 AM

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Is the $500 essentially a discounted annual plan?

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Or is it completely separate from the recurring price?

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:12 AM

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that's completely different from the recurring price. It depends on the seller what price they would set in the portal.

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 11:12 AM

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Ok, got it

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And you're not using Checkout? You've build your own integration, right?

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:17 AM

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yes

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Essentially, I want to use the Stripe Connect for the subscription. So, I can set a platform fees on each payment

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 11:18 AM

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Cool! So you'll need to add a line item for the one-time fee to the initial Invoice object generated by the Subscription

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoiceitems/create

Stripe API reference – Create an invoice item

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:21 AM

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Currently I am using code below,

var subscriptionCreateOptions = new SubscriptionCreateOptions
{
Customer = stripeCustomerId,
CancelAt = cancelAt,
Items = new List<SubscriptionItemOptions>
{
new SubscriptionItemOptions
{
Price = stripePlanId
},
},
DefaultSource = subscribeToPlan.sourceId
};

subscriptionCreateOptions.AddExpand("latest_invoice.payment_intent");

var subscriptionService = new SubscriptionService();
var subscriptionCreated = await subscriptionService.CreateAsync(subscriptionCreateOptions);

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Ok, You mean generated invoice directly and charge the invoice?

However this way I don't have the subscription created in the stripe dashboard.

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 11:25 AM

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ripe orbit Ok, You mean generated invoice directly and charge the invoice? However this wa...

Yes, it'll be added to the initial invoice for the subscription

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You can't create a separate subscription for it. As the error you're seeing explains, it needs to be a recurring price for it to be used in a subscription

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:30 AM

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I am a little confused here. The subscription has not been created yet. How do I link that invoice to a subscription?

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 11:30 AM

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The invoice will be created when you create the subscription

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:31 AM

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create subscription is giving me error. that's where I got stuck

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 11:32 AM

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Yes, because you're passing a Price object which is not type: 'recurring'

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:35 AM

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ok

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You mean for stipe Price Object which type: 'one_time'. We cannot create the subscription

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 11:37 AM

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Yes, exactly

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If you need to charge an initial one-time fee as part of an subscription, then you can add it to the initial invoice as I described

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:39 AM

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Ok. I got it. However, the Initial charge is not my case.

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let me give you the use case that I have.

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Let's say, a seller on my platform named
"Audio Series" offers an audio service.

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They have a plan of $500 which is a one-time payment.

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Which offers me access to their audio service for a year.

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I as a user want to subscribe to their service

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 11:43 AM

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Then you should configure a recurring price with a year interval

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:44 AM

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That makes sense to me.

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and I was doing that before I had upgraded the stripe version.

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I was using the stripe 2017 API version. in which I was using the Plan API.

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which don't have the ability set to type: recurring or one-time

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I understand Price API with type one-time works as a subsription just charges one time not the recurring.

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I don't why stripe has added that type = one-time if they cannnot support this use case.

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 11:47 AM

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type one-time works as a subsription just charges one time not the recurring
No, that's not possible with Prices

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Because you can use Price objects with non-subscription (one-time) payments, like with Checkout

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:48 AM

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I understand that now.

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Thank you for your help.

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you are awesome.!

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 11:50 AM

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Np! Let me know if I can help with anything else

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:50 AM

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I think I'm good.

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:51 AM

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lament rampart Then you should configure a recurring price with a year interval

and I have to set cancel_at date so, it won't charge again next year.

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 11:52 AM

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Why do you need a Subscription in this case then?

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Why not do a one-time payment of $500?

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 11:59 AM

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I had defined database schema, understanding that one-time payment will work same as the subscription.

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So, that's I am making sure I understand one-time payment should be different from the subscription

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Now, I will re-visit the database schema to add one-time payments. and based on the update parts of the application which shows the this data.

lament rampart Dec 2, 2021, 12:01 PM

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Sounds to me like you don't really need a subscription if it's a one-time $500 payment for a year of access

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Instead just provision access to the service for a year from the date/time of the payment

ripe orbit Dec 2, 2021, 12:05 PM

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Yes, I will take that route now.

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