OptimalSurprise-billing | Stripe Developers | Page 1

wheat current Jul 20, 2022, 12:20 PM

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hi! could you elaborate a little on the context?

dire drift Jul 20, 2022, 12:21 PM

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I require it for some analytics i am doing

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so i would like to split things into normal subscription, licensed and metered categories and their sub components

wheat current Jul 20, 2022, 12:24 PM

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well the first thing would be to look at the items on a given Subscription and look at the related Price object. That tells you if it's licensed or metered.
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-items-data-price
https://stripe.com/docs/api/prices/object#price_object-recurring-usage_type

dire drift Jul 20, 2022, 12:27 PM

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does licensed type encompass the normal ordinary subscription?

wheat current Jul 20, 2022, 12:28 PM

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depends what you call normal/ordinary but I would say yes. That's just a "per seat" subscription where it's amount of Price multiplied by quantity of the item.

dire drift Jul 20, 2022, 12:29 PM

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ah ok

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great then that might be good enough

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so usage type essentially encompasses all possible priving models?

wheat current Jul 20, 2022, 12:32 PM

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well you also want to look at the billing_scheme of the Price since that changes the billing model

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if you look at https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models and view the "API" tabs it shows how Prices with different models are created, which should help you to recognise them/tune your code.

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