#odin_smash - Application Fee Percent
quasi hawk
Sorry meant to thread that reply, I suck at Discord 🤷♂️
tough radish
No worries, happens to all of us
I think what you are referencing is documented here:
https://stripe.com/docs/connect/subscriptions#collecting-fees-on-subscriptions
So this fee gets applied for each billing period
quasi hawk
I see. That makes sense, but I'm confused by the actual behavior I'm seeing. In this case, I am creating subscriptions, through subscription schedules, like so:
Stripe::SubscriptionSchedule.create(
customer: "cus_1234",
start_date: "now",
end_behavior: "cancel",
default_settings: {
application_fee_percent: 3.5,
on_behalf_of: "act_1234",
transfer_data: {
destination: "act_1234"
}
},
phases: [
{
iterations: 6,
items: [
{ price: "pr_1234" }
]
}
]
)
But on the first charge/iteration for pr_1234 , amount is $480.00, we're taking $100.8 (21%) in fees (3.5 * 6 = 21). I'm expecting to only take 3.5% ($16.8) per iteration. So I'm assuming the fee needs to be set under the phases attribute to get that to work properly? It's not clear in the docs, the difference between where you set the fee, to me.
tough radish
Yes I see, thank you for the example.
And I agree, the exact application of these fees in this scenario could be documented better. I will try to reproduce this behavior myself so I can discuss it with my team and see if we can suggest a revision. To deal with your situation, I would try moving the application_fee_percent parameter to the phases and testing to see if the amount captured by the platform makes sense.
quasi hawk
Ok. Thanks for the info.