Keika | Stripe Developers | Page 1

jaunty oreBOT Oct 11, 2022, 2:31 PM

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sturdy anchor Oct 11, 2022, 2:32 PM

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Hello 👋
Can you expand a bit more on the context?

sly bison Oct 11, 2022, 2:32 PM

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Hi, yes of course

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it's a follow up on my question here

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#dev-help message

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so now I'm trying to create a subscription for a user that will pay me "out of band". So I understand how to change the invoice, but I first need to create the subscription so that the invoice gets created automatically.
In trying the create the subscription, as my Customer is brand new and doesn't have a payment method on file, I get the error:
This customer has no attached payment source or default payment method. Please consider adding a default payment method.

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that's from calling the subscriptions/create API

sturdy anchor Oct 11, 2022, 2:37 PM

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Can you try passing in collection_method: send_invoice when you create a subscription?
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-collection_method

Stripe API reference – Create a subscription – curl

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sly bison Oct 11, 2022, 2:37 PM

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ok I will try that, I saw it in the docs, but I wasn't sure if it was a good idea

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ok, it's moving forward:
If invoice collection method is 'send_invoice', you must specify 'days_until_due'.

sturdy anchor Oct 11, 2022, 2:38 PM

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Yeah some parameters might change based on the collection method

sly bison Oct 11, 2022, 2:38 PM

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ok, I did that too

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and it worked

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subscription is created

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Now question, is the invoice sent to the customer when that happens?>

sturdy anchor Oct 11, 2022, 2:40 PM

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I believe we do send it to the customer

sly bison Oct 11, 2022, 2:40 PM

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ah, can I prevent that from happening? 😄

sturdy anchor Oct 11, 2022, 2:41 PM

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Hmm good question 😅
I don't think there's a way to do that
Let me think if there's a workaround

sly bison Oct 11, 2022, 2:42 PM

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thanks

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in the same flow, I will get the invoice, set it as PAID, with paid_out_of_band = true

sturdy anchor Oct 11, 2022, 2:46 PM

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If you switch back to charge_automatically collection method and tweak the payment_behavior then you should see a different behavior
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-payment_behavior

Can you try setting collection_method: charge_automatically and payment_behavior to allow_incomplete

Stripe API reference – Create a subscription – curl

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sly bison Oct 11, 2022, 2:47 PM

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I did try allow incomplete just before

sturdy anchor Oct 11, 2022, 2:47 PM

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huh interesting
What if you change it to default_incomplete

sly bison Oct 11, 2022, 2:47 PM

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but not with charge automatically, let me try that please

sturdy anchor Oct 11, 2022, 2:48 PM

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sure!

sly bison Oct 11, 2022, 2:48 PM

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This customer has no attached payment source or default payment method.

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⬆️ I get this error

sturdy anchor Oct 11, 2022, 2:51 PM

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with both payment_behavior?
Can you share the request IDs for these requests?

sly bison Oct 11, 2022, 2:53 PM

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actually you know what? Im checking the Invoice in the Dashboard, and the invoice created for the successful Subscription creation is in Draft

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does Stripe send draft invoices?

sturdy anchor Oct 11, 2022, 2:54 PM

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We don't send draft invoices, no.
We send it once they've been finalized 🙂

sly bison Oct 11, 2022, 2:54 PM

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so I think we're good here 😄

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so long as the invoice isn't sent by email, I can do the rest

sturdy anchor Oct 11, 2022, 2:54 PM

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Awesome! 🙂 Glad I could help

sly bison Oct 11, 2022, 2:55 PM

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thanks for your help!

sturdy anchor Oct 11, 2022, 2:55 PM

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NP! 🙂 Happy to help
Good luck

#Keika