#mfreyberger-billing-anchor
ember obsidian
Hi 👋 no it's not possible to divorce the billing period and payment dates like that within Stripe. We will always generate the invoice at the beginning of a billing period.
barren garnet
Got it. What would be the recommend approach for handling a setup like this within stripe? I suppose the billing period inside of Stripe could not equal the logical billing period that we are using, but that feels like it could cause a lot of confusion.
Since our usage records are delayed, I was also thinking we could use Stripe for handling each invoice as a one-off and not use the Subscription portion of the product.
ember obsidian
It depends how much you're relying on our objects versus what you're handling on your end. If you're using our pre-built features, such as the Customer Portal, then these pull heavily from our objects and that information will be displayed to your customers so shifting the billing period would look odd to them.
If you're just using our objects to handle payments, then this is easier because you can adjust the billing periods to fit what your flow needs and then have objects on your end to keep track of what information your customers should be shown.