#stripe

@hpar Is there a way to charge customer right at the point when invoice is created? I checked the dashboard and it seems it should wait for an hour to charge customer. There is charge now button in the dashboard but I am wondering if there is any configuration I can charge them right away on the BE.

tony_: hm, I'm not sure I understand the question. Stripe automatically calculates the proration when the billing period changes but does not charge. I think you'd want to use the upcoming invoice endpoint and use the total, which includes discounts: https://stripe.com/docs/api#upcoming_invoice_lines

Hey there, I was trying to find an advanced query to calculate our MRR from sigma platform, anyone has a template for this?

@hpar correct

But, I want to charge the customer immediately, and I want to display the amount to the customer

getting the total in this case would give me next_month_price + this_month_proration

@hpar, also from the docs: Stripe immediately attempts payment for these subscription changes: From a subscription that doesn’t require payment (e.g., due to a trial or free plan) to a paid subscription When the billing period changes

Sorry about the formatting, basically "When the billing period changes" is one of the changes for which Stripe immediately attempts payment according to the docs

Anwar: I only know of the example that comes with Sigma, maybe that'd be a good starting point for building something more sophisticated?

I already build something more sophisticated but it seems that it has something wrong, so I was asking if someone already build another example :( but thank you for your help

tony_: your approach sounds correct, sum up the line items with proration=true, then calculate the discount on that

i'm trying to send the tax_percent parameter to a invoice create (but its not accepted) how should i do this?

but the docs tell me to do it this way: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/t...

hey guys. your docs say "The Dashboard uses the time zone specified in your account settings.", but a coworker reached out to yalls support and someone told them that the numbers there UTC. I'm specifically looking at new customers/trying to debug a discrepancy between google analytics new customers and stripe new customers. :S

MrGix: https://stripe.com/docs/api#create_invoice-tax_...

MrGix: what's the exact error you're getting from the API?

shelby_: times in the dashboard are based on your account settings, yes

sorry to hear you got a different message :-/

paramater unknown : "Received unknown parameter: tax_percent",

meh, ive probably lied before too. we'll forgive you, broski support guy.

MrGix: can you share the bit of code that creates the invoice? just make sure to remove any secret keys, etc, and use gist.github.com or pastebin.com

I'm using laravel cashier:

{ "customer": "cus_D7dxXt1fgTzypW", "amount": "500", "currency": "eur", "description": "Additional Users", "tax_percent": "21" } (the post message from the log in my account)

response: { "error": { "code": "parameter_unknown", "doc_url": "https://stripe.com/docs/error-codes/parameter-unknown", "message": "Received unknown parameter: tax_percent", "param": "tax_percent", "type": "invalid_request_error" } }

on url: URL /v1/invoiceitems

a post

do you have the request ID for that? req_xxx in the URL

sounds like cashier might be passing that parameter in an unexpected place

req_DNRFzCUtaZhkz7

awesome thx

using the test envireoment

yep, so that's trying to create an invoice item with 21% tax on it, and tax_percent only applies to the invoice

yes i am

doesn't seem like cashier lets you set the tax percentage on the invoice either https://github.com/laravel/cashier/blob/af51a8f...

it works on the subscription side (but need it on some additional charges)

I use this function:

that lets you set additional parameters

yep I saw, I traced out what it does

when it creates the invoice it doesn't pass options or allow you to pass any options

so you'd have to make the StripeInvoice::create() call yourself

hmm but how can the options than come to the logs in my stripe enverionment?

seems like you could do something like $company->tab('Additional users', (100*$updateQuantity), []); and then call "create invoice" directly with the Stripe library

If i trace it it uses tab

yes and then it calls invoice()

and tab accepts the parameters

and invoice() calls the Stripe API to create the invoice

something like \Stripe\Invoice::create(['customer' => 'cus_xxx', 'tax_percent' => 21])

is what you'd do after calling tab()

really this is a cashier issue though, not a stripe library issue

oke no problem got a clue what's going on, and will create a pull request for cashier than :P

@hpar but is there an explanation why it says in the logs on my developers tool whats that the parameter is unknown (if we conclude the parameter can not be send to the server)

yes, cashier is sending the parameter to the "create invoice item" endpoint, which doesn't support that

tax can only be set on the whole invoice

Ahhh check oke so i'm using the wrong endpoint :)

@hpar and charge doesn't accept tax percentage too

correct

Ahh oke :(

Hello, how can we style the card element? in the doc at this location: https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-js/reference#str... we can set the font styling, but how can we stylise the credit card input? like add a border or other?

yep, there are a number of properties available to customize, though for a border you want to style the container on your page where you mount the card element

also https://stripe.github.io/elements-examples/

oh hey korben :)

Hi!

It's my first time asking a question on here. Do I just go ahead and post my quesiton? :)

Yep.

Wait.

Yes.

Wait.

Yeah, go ahead.

hpar: korben: thank you.

I've been going through the billing documentation for the entire day now. Is there any way I could set up a coupon so that it acts like the free tier of, say, AWS? Basically if I offer a user $100 I want the coupon to be carried over month after month until the entire $100 is used up.

So if the customer uses $40 this month, $60 should be available next month...

Pretty much like a bucket, until it's empty...

Sam__: You'd have to setup a coupon w/ a duration in months that maps to your total. eg. $10 for 10-months to get your $100 discount.

So if I set $10 for 10 months and the user accrues $40 in charges for the first month, the user would still be charged $30 for that month?

someone hacked our account. We see we have 2-phase authentication with a phone number we don't recognize

what can we do?

Sam__: Yes.

rony: https://support.stripe.com/email

they haven't answered us yet

and we guess it's urgent

rony: I just DM'd you.

@korben Sent you. Thanks.

@korben In this scenario I'd have to attach the discount to every customer rather than each subscription? since there are many subscriptions per customer and we'd want the discount to be across the board...