Oytun - subscriptions | Stripe Developers | Page 1

orchid schooner Mar 10, 2022, 9:03 AM

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cloud crescent Mar 10, 2022, 9:04 AM

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aaaaand, one other question is... should we come up with our own usage tracking and limiting flow, or should we rely on Stripe's subscription usage endpoints?

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this is to decide, "hey, how much has this user so far consumed/used? can they still issue 5 more api requests?"

orchid schooner Mar 10, 2022, 9:14 AM

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Hi!

is it possible to have direct monetary value as usage in subscription?
I'm not sure I understand. Could you try to clarify, or share a subscription ID with exactly what you would like to do/see?

cloud crescent Mar 10, 2022, 9:16 AM

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it's a typical metered usage case. however, the metered unit on our side is "usd", not "number of hits" or "quantity of something else"

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we can't say

100 words (unit) translated * 0.10 = $10

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because $10 is calculated very very dynamically, meaning, there is no unit price

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it's not tiered, it's configured

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so i am asking, is it possible to get rid of unit price and let me enter the $ value for the usage

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i am almost thinking of...an ugly hack

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make unit price = $0.01

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and if i need to meter $21.34 of usage

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i'll record usage on stripe api for a quantity of 2134

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quite ugly, but billing-wise it will sum up correctly

orchid schooner Mar 10, 2022, 9:36 AM

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make unit price = $0.01
That's exactly what I was going to suggest in that case, because when you create a usage record, you have to provide a quantity https://stripe.com/docs/api/usage_records/object#usage_record_object-quantity

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