Retrieve a customer balance transaction 

Retrieves a specific customer balance transaction that updated the customer’s balances.

Parameters

No parameters.

Returns

Returns a customer balance transaction object if a valid identifier was provided.

GET /v1/customers/:id/balance_transactions/:id
curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers/cus_NcjdgdwZyI9Rj7/balance_transactions/cbtxn_1MrU9qLkdIwHu7ixhdjxGBgI \
-u "sk_test_BQokikJ...2HlWgH4olfQ2sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2:"
Response
{
"id": "cbtxn_1MrU9qLkdIwHu7ixhdjxGBgI",
"object": "customer_balance_transaction",
"amount": -500,
"created": 1680216086,
"credit_note": null,
"currency": "usd",
"customer": "cus_NcjdgdwZyI9Rj7",
"description": null,
"ending_balance": -500,
"invoice": null,
"livemode": false,
"metadata": {},
"type": "adjustment"
}

List customer balance transactions 

Returns a list of transactions that updated the customer’s balances.

Parameters

No parameters.

More parameters

  • ending_beforestring

  • limitinteger

  • starting_afterstring

Returns

A dictionary with a data property that contains an array of up to limit customer balance transactions, starting after item starting_after. Each entry in the array is a separate customer balance transaction object. If no more items are available, the resulting array will be empty.

GET /v1/customers/:id/balance_transactions
curl -G https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers/cus_NcjdgdwZyI9Rj7/balance_transactions \
-u "sk_test_BQokikJ...2HlWgH4olfQ2sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2:" \
-d limit=3
Response
{
"object": "list",
"url": "/v1/customers/cus_NcjdgdwZyI9Rj7/balance_transactions",
"has_more": false,
"data": [
{
"id": "cbtxn_1MrU9qLkdIwHu7ixhdjxGBgI",
"object": "customer_balance_transaction",
"amount": -500,
"created": 1680216086,
"credit_note": null,
"currency": "usd",
"customer": "cus_NcjdgdwZyI9Rj7",
"description": null,
"ending_balance": -500,
"invoice": null,
"livemode": false,
"metadata": {},
"type": "adjustment"
}
]
}

Customer Portal Session 

The Billing customer portal is a Stripe-hosted UI for subscription and billing management.

A portal configuration describes the functionality and features that you want to provide to your customers through the portal.

A portal session describes the instantiation of the customer portal for a particular customer. By visiting the session’s URL, the customer can manage their subscriptions and billing details. For security reasons, sessions are short-lived and will expire if the customer does not visit the URL. Create sessions on-demand when customers intend to manage their subscriptions and billing details.

Related guide: Customer management

Customer Portal Configuration 

Invoices 

Invoices are statements of amounts owed by a customer, and are either generated one-off, or generated periodically from a subscription.

They contain invoice items, and proration adjustments that may be caused by subscription upgrades/downgrades (if necessary).

If your invoice is configured to be billed through automatic charges, Stripe automatically finalizes your invoice and attempts payment. Note that finalizing the invoice, when automatic, does not happen immediately as the invoice is created. Stripe waits until one hour after the last webhook was successfully sent (or the last webhook timed out after failing). If you (and the platforms you may have connected to) have no webhooks configured, Stripe waits one hour after creation to finalize the invoice.

If your invoice is configured to be billed by sending an email, then based on your email settings, Stripe will email the invoice to your customer and await payment. These emails can contain a link to a hosted page to pay the invoice.

Stripe applies any customer credit on the account before determining the amount due for the invoice (i.e., the amount that will be actually charged). If the amount due for the invoice is less than Stripe’s minimum allowed charge per currency, the invoice is automatically marked paid, and we add the amount due to the customer’s credit balance which is applied to the next invoice.

More details on the customer’s credit balance are here.

Related guide: Send invoices to customers