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Commercial trade work is not paid in one movement, so the platform carries a milestone schedule and prints it on the proposal the customer signs. Applied to the invoice above, it comes to this. Read the boundary before the numbers: these three amounts are computed by the quoting engine, not issued as three Stripe invoices. One approved quote becomes one finalised invoice today, and a page claiming otherwise would be inventing objects you could go and fail to find.

Deposit on execution (30%)

$1,236.24 CAD

Due on signature. Releases material procurement and reserves the crew window.

Progress draw (50%)

$2,060.40 CAD

Invoiced at substantial completion of the installed scope, net 30.

Completion & sign-off (20%)

$824.15 CAD

Released on inspection sign-off and closure of the deficiency list, net 30.

Shares are read from the same constant the proposal renders, which a build-time assertion holds to exactly 100% — a schedule summing to 95% silently forgives 5% of a contract. Rounding remainder falls on the final milestone so the three amounts add back to the invoice total to the cent.

What Stripe bills here

One approved quote, for one of your customers, as one invoice. The adapter runs on quote approval and writes a Customer, an invoice item per approved line, an explicit tax line, and a finalised invoice. Optionally a Checkout Session against the same quote, only when somebody asks for one.

What Stripe does not bill here

Your Novel Systems subscription. Starter Operator, Growth Contractor and Enterprise Fleet, the implementation fee, and seat and vehicle overage at $45 and $25 per month are contracted and invoiced directly — there is no Stripe Product, Price or Subscription behind any of them, and no recurring-billing model in the schema. A tier is not a price object in this account and this page will not imply it is.

How the amounts are set

Each line is sent as an explicit integer amount in cents, taken from the approved quote. Stripe is never handed a unit price and a quantity to multiply, because a recomputed line lands a cent away from the document the customer signed.

How HST is handled

Ontario HST at 13% is posted as its own invoice line rather than folded into the total, and the same is done on the Checkout Session. The line's description comes from a single constant that the read-back path also matches on, so the rate cannot move on one side only. Stripe Tax is not enabled on this account: it computes zero until a Canadian registration is configured, and a silent zero on a Canadian invoice is worse than a line you can see.

How test mode is configured

The backend holds one Stripe secret key as a server-side environment variable and nothing else declares a mode. Whether an object is test data is read off the object — the cs_test_ prefix on a session, the livemode flag on an invoice — so the badges above cannot be stale, and a hosted payment or invoice link is withheld unless the artifact itself reports test mode.

Plan prices, included allowances and the overage rates quoted above are published on the pricing page, which is the same module this section reads them from.