#ibrahim menem-subscriptions
cerulean oyster
👋 happy to help
you could always try place a hold on the card https://stripe.com/docs/payments/capture-later
but I'm not sure if it's really the right thing to do
what events are you listening to in your webhooks?
solid eagle
not sure, we first started listening to payment_intent.failed then changed to invoice.payment_failed
cerulean oyster
yes the invoice.* events are the ones you should be listening to
I don't know how you would be able to pre-auth unless you do a separate PaymentIntent to place a hold on the card.
solid eagle
so the pre-auth doesn't sound like a good practice?
what would be the ideal workflow?
1 - update subscription
2 - if inovice.payment_failed happens
3 - revert the subscription update with new update
cerulean oyster
sorry I was just made aware of a feature we have
but there are other ways of achieving this as well
you could do something like a normal Payment Intent where you collect the money
then you create a Customer Balance with that amount
and once that's done, you update the subscription which will create a new invoice. Stripe will then use the Customer Balance to pay that invoice
those are really the 3 options I could think of
like 2 I thought of and one came from my colleague 🙈
solid eagle
oh the last one sounds interesting and robust 🙂 so we charge, transfer the money to stripe then update the subscription
thank you and to your colleague
is any of them considered better practice than the others?
cerulean oyster
the one about pending-updates is I think the official way of doing it
solid eagle
I'll investigate that first then, but probably end up implementing the last one
to create a customer balance does it require an api call? or just the payment intent is enough?
solid eagle
thank you very much 