gracine | Stripe Developers | Page 1

dark tigerBOT Sep 23, 2022, 11:52 AM

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median mauve Sep 23, 2022, 11:52 AM

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expand should be in the first argument object, not the second one

warped wyvern Sep 23, 2022, 11:52 AM

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ah!

median mauve Sep 23, 2022, 11:53 AM

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it's just

stripe_customer = Stripe::Customer.create({
      email: email,
      address: {
        country: country_code,
        state: region_code
      },
    expand: ['tax']
})

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the second object is only for things like stripe_account or stripe_version , it's for "request options".

warped wyvern Sep 23, 2022, 11:54 AM

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it works!

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merci!

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I was having issues with customer / taxability

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Its the chicken or the egg, I must know if I tax the customer before creating the checkout session

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but the customer address is known only within the checkout session, when the user enters his address

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I think this logic is missing in the checkout session page

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so now I must detect the customer location, create or get the customer from Stripe and check if customer.tax.automatic_tax == 'supported'

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basically this is my flag to enabled automatic tax on the session

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I did not find a better way, because its counter intuitive to ask user for address before the checkout page

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Does that make sense ?

median mauve Sep 23, 2022, 11:57 AM

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yes, that is exactly what https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/taxes?tax-calculation=stripe-tax#existing-customers describes.

warped wyvern Sep 23, 2022, 11:58 AM

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The issue is mainly that we do not want to collect taxes in a state that we do not have tax registration

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we are based in canada so a us customer must never have automatic_tax enabled

median mauve Sep 23, 2022, 11:59 AM

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cool. Well checking for not_collected in the expanded tax field of the Customer (which I assume is what you're doing) will help there. https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/object#customer_object-tax-automatic_tax

warped wyvern Sep 23, 2022, 12:00 PM

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In my opinion it would be nicer to have this logic computed dynamically in the checkout session, so our app does not need to add a "enter your address" before Stripe, this adds friction to the subscription process

median mauve Sep 23, 2022, 12:01 PM

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hmm, I mean, it does. You don't have to create a Customer. You can just create the CheckoutSession and it calculates tax and if it can't(because you're not registered), then it doesn't, it would calculate $0 tax (https://stripe.com/docs/tax/zero-tax)

warped wyvern Sep 23, 2022, 12:02 PM

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ohhhh

median mauve Sep 23, 2022, 12:02 PM

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https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/taxes?tax-calculation=stripe-tax#new-customers

warped wyvern Sep 23, 2022, 12:02 PM

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I assumed that tax would be calculated even if we do not have registration...i did not test this

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so i should symply set automatic tax enabled always

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only resident of canada will see taxes added

median mauve Sep 23, 2022, 12:03 PM

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I'm pretty sure it doesn't, you can give it a try, overall that's why that docs page exists and explains common reasons for seeing $0 tax applies is not being registered

warped wyvern Sep 23, 2022, 12:03 PM

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nice

median mauve Sep 23, 2022, 12:03 PM

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so I think the product already does what you need, just by default

warped wyvern Sep 23, 2022, 12:03 PM

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🤦‍♂️

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alright, im glad we talked!

oak forge Sep 23, 2022, 12:05 PM

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👋 taking over for my colleague. Let me know if there's any follow-up Qs I can answer!

warped wyvern Sep 23, 2022, 12:20 PM

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All good you can close this thank you

#gracine