vancouver_trader - invoice amount | Stripe Developers | Page 1

atomic minnow May 10, 2022, 2:18 PM

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Hello, can you tell me a bit more about what you need help with?

devout granite May 10, 2022, 2:24 PM

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Sure, I have two invoice & want to confirm the amount charged for them. It is for our client & they created subscription for 500 dollar in_1Kw623Krag8sF83u25bbGUIh in_1KlDhMKrag8sF83uzPd5OiUG

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Also I want to know does stripe mark transaction with any flag that it is prorated transaction ?

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Because it is not clear when amount charged is different for any reason like prorated amount for subscription cancellation

atomic minnow May 10, 2022, 2:28 PM

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Gotcha, checking in to how you should check this programmatically

devout granite May 10, 2022, 2:28 PM

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Customer created subscription for 500 dollar but we are getting 412.75 amount. Not sure why and how that is possible. I see subscription active actually

atomic minnow May 10, 2022, 2:29 PM

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amount_paid is the easiest way to see how much has been paid on an invoice https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-amount_paid

Stripe API reference – The Invoice object – curl

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Checking in to that proration

devout granite May 10, 2022, 2:29 PM

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Also can you please share invoice copy for above two invoice so we can confirm amount actually paid for them

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Sure thank you

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I will apply similar changes on our side

atomic minnow May 10, 2022, 2:40 PM

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Ah, it looks like you created the Subscription with a cancel-on date of 05/31

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But the billing cycle anchor is on 5th of the month. So the second billing period was for 5/5-5/31 instead of a full period from say 5/5-6/5 or 5/1-6/1

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Trying to think of what you might want to do instead if you want to create a subscription for just two months

devout granite May 10, 2022, 2:44 PM

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who determines the billing cycle anchor ? It is when subscrption created correct ?

atomic minnow May 10, 2022, 2:44 PM

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I am immediately coming up with two ideas:

Backdate your subscription's start date to the beginning of the month https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-backdate_start_date
Use a subscription schedule to cancel the subscription after two cycles https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules

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Correct, it is the day that you create the subscription unless you modify it

devout granite May 10, 2022, 2:44 PM

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Thanks

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Also first invoice should be charged correctly right

atomic minnow May 10, 2022, 2:47 PM

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Yes it looks like the first invoice was charged the full amount

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Oh and I guess option 3 that is similar to what you are doing how would be to just calculate out a canceled_at that is two full months in the future

devout granite May 10, 2022, 3:00 PM

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thanks

devout granite May 10, 2022, 3:32 PM

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BTW is there option to set proration turned off on stripe?

atomic minnow May 10, 2022, 3:42 PM

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For billing cycles like that I don't think so. We allow you to turn of prorations on the first cycle when creating a subscription or on any later updates that you make, but unfortunately I don't think we have a property to turn off proration for short cycles like this

devout granite May 10, 2022, 3:47 PM

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what do you mean by that when you said "you can set proration for first cycle and later updates but not for short cycle like this"

chilly trail May 10, 2022, 3:51 PM

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Hi 👋 I"m stepping in for @atomic minnow .
Proration is something that is determined whenever you make a change to a Subscription. If you want to avoid it you will need to pass none as the value for the proration_behavior parameter when changing subscriptions.

devout granite May 10, 2022, 3:58 PM

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if i set that in advance for subscription that it should work for all cases right

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