[stripe-api-discuss] creating Invoice and adding invoice line items

[Marian Gheata]

Hello Stripe Team Members.

I am sorry for my English.

I did the following for creating invoice.

invoice = stripe.Invoice.create(

                customer=customer.id,

                collection_method="send_invoice",

                days_until_due=30,

                currency="usd"

)

stripe.InvoiceItem.create(

                customer=customer.id,

                price=price.id,

                invoice=inovoice.id

            )

But it returns following error message.

stripe.error.InvalidRequestError: Request req_XjQwuETRlcX5pW: Nothing to invoice for customer

I am at a critical juncture in using stripe and any quick help would be very much appreciated.

[Remi J.]

Hello Marian,

Creating an empty Invoice on a Customer, which is what your first call does, requires being on the most recent API version [1] which is 2022-08-01. This API version introduced a major change to the Invoice API that stops requiring having a "pending InvoiceItem" on the Customer before Invoice creation.

You are getting this error because your code or (your Stripe account) is on an older API version and doesn't support this feature yet. You should force the most recent API version when you make those calls as documented here [2]. Alternatively, you can use the `pending_invoice_items_behavior` parameter [3] and pass the value `exclude` to create an empty Invoice on your older API version like this:

invoice = stripe.Invoice.create(
  customer=customer.id,
  collection_method="send_invoice",
  days_until_due=30,

  currency="usd",

  pending_invoice_items_behavior="exclude"
)

Hope this helps!

Best,

Remi

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/upgrades#2022-08-01

[2] https://stripe.com/docs/api/versioning?lang=python

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