

Paired with an earlier ‘applied_to_invoice’ transaction. Traces the reversal of an applied credit balance from a linked Invoice. When the amount due on an invoice is greater than Stripe’s maximum chargeable amount and the customer does not have a cash balance, the invoice is debited to the credit balance and added to the amount due of the next issued invoice. When the amount due on an invoice is less than Stripe’s minimum chargeable amount and the customer does not have a cash balance, the invoice is debited to the credit balance and added to the amount due of the next issued invoice. Traces the creation of credit to a Credit Note and it’s associated Invoice. Traces the application of credit against a linked Invoice. This is the only type of transaction that you can create using API integrations and the Dashboard. The following table outlines and describes each of these type values:Īn explicitly created adjustment transaction to debit or credit the credit balance. The type property has many more possible values to represent the creation source and reason for the transaction. Transaction typesĪll Transactions created with the API or in the Dashboard have a type value of adjustment, representing a debit or credit manually created by you for the customer. For example, if you credit the customer 10 USD you would have to debit the customer 10 USD in a new transaction, each canceling the other out. You can only undo it by creating a corresponding, reversing transaction.
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After it’s been created, you can only update its description or metadata-you can’t edit other properties or delete a transaction. TransactionsĪll modifications to the credit balance are recorded as Transactions. Positive values are treated as a debit (an increase in the amount owed by the customer to you) that you can apply to the next invoice. Negative values are treated as a credit (a reduction in the amount owed by the customer) that you can apply to the next invoice. In other words, they can’t increase the amount due on the next invoice. Customers with a cash balance can’t keep a positive balance.The credit balance is in the customer’s currency.You can’t choose to not apply the credit balance to an invoice.You can’t choose a specific invoice to apply the credit balance to.


Some common use cases for customer credit balances include: These Customer Balance Transactions can refer to the object related to the adjustment (such as a Credit Note or Customer), or even metadata for your own reference. These adjustments sum up to a balance on the customer that you can apply to future invoices.īecause the credit balance is computed from a ledger-an immutable list of debit and credit transactions-it provides an audit trail of transactions for the customer. Adjustments in the credit balance could be a credit (meaning you owe them money) or a debit (meaning they owe you money). Every customer in Stripe Billing has a credit balance that you can issue credit and debit adjustments against.
