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halcyon skiffBOT Oct 3, 2022, 6:28 PM

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astral sonnet Oct 3, 2022, 6:28 PM

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Hey there

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This is possible but will take a bit of filtering on your end.

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You mostly want to use the customer.subscription.updated event here for all cases.

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But, you can determine a renewal based on the previous_attributes that will be in the customer.subscription.renewal event.

mint rock Oct 3, 2022, 6:31 PM

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is the customer.subscription.renewal event only fired when it is a renewing charge? and customer.subscription.updated only after the charge was successful?

astral sonnet Oct 3, 2022, 6:32 PM

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Hmm where are you seeing customer.subscription.renewal? That isn't a webhook event we support afaik

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The customer.subscription.updated event will fire any time anything changes with a Subscription object

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You can see info on the different events here: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks#events

Using webhooks with subscriptions

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mint rock Oct 3, 2022, 6:33 PM

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astral sonnet But, you can determine a `renewal` based on the `previous_attributes` that will ...

you mentioned it here, unless I misunderstood

astral sonnet Oct 3, 2022, 6:34 PM

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Sorry, maybe I shouldn't have put renewal in backticks... I refer to a "renewal" as the natural payment that happens when a Subscription cycles.

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We have no event that will just indicate a renewal.

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Any time a renewal happens though a customer.subscription.updated event will fire

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Which will indicate the new billing period

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This event will also fire when you make other Subscription updates

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However then the event will contain a lot of other info as well

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I'd recommend testing this out so you can see for yourself. You can use test clocks (https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing/test-clocks) to fast-forward time and trigger renewals.

Test your integration with test clocks

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mint rock Oct 3, 2022, 6:38 PM

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alright thanks for the help

mint rock Oct 3, 2022, 7:06 PM

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@astral sonnet just want to confirm the subscription updated webhook fires before the charge webhook right? thats how it seems currently from my tests

neon musk Oct 3, 2022, 7:13 PM

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This ordering of delivery is not guaranteed, so you'll need to make sure you check the latest state of any objects if your business logic depends on those sequences:
https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/best-practices#event-ordering

mint rock Oct 3, 2022, 7:17 PM

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neon musk This ordering of delivery is not guaranteed, so you'll need to make sure you che...

do any of the other events have the subscription previous_attributes? or do we need to query that on a successful charge instead of waiting for the subscription updated webhook

neon musk Oct 3, 2022, 7:18 PM

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If you specifically need those previous attributes, you'll want the corresponding subscription update event, that's the only place they exist

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Yes otherwise you'd need to retrieve the subscription and look at the current state, comparing to your latest records of the relevant fields

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