#dred-billing-invoices
lethal narwhal
alright thanks. to clarify, I am specifically asking about metered billing. here is the doc I am looking at: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/prices-guide#metered-billing
tender shore
gotcha! thanks for the link. definitely helps narrow down.
Stripe automatically totals and invoices for all usage during the billing period
based on my interpretation, stripe will automatically calculate the usage based on the usage record that you'd be providing and then create an invoice
The invoice would still go through the lifecycle
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/invoices/subscription#sub-invoice-lifecycle
lethal narwhal
so does that mean that my customers will need to manually pay for the invoice?
tender shore
according to this https://stripe.com/docs/billing/invoices/subscription#collecting-payment
When an invoice is due, Stripe tries to collect payment by either automatically charging the payment method on file, or emailing the invoice to customers.
so it'd depend on the customer, if they don't have a payment method on file they'll get an email
lethal narwhal
ah okay that makes sense. Thank you for your help!
tender shore
Happy to help 🙂
I definitely forgot to mention this but you can indeed choose between charging automatically or sending an invoice
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-collection_method
the behavior defaults to charge_automatically but you can skip the lifecycle and email the invoice by changing the collection_method