#Markan97
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blazing plume
I don't know how to get the payment intent object that paid for the subscription.
clever thunder
Hi there, apologies for the wait. Taking a look now
Can you be more explicit? What have you tried so far?
blazing plume
I want to cancel + refund subscriptions via API call.
I don't know how I can "pluck" the paymentIntent ID of a paid subscription Invoice.
When I expand latestInvoice, I get null as paymentIntent.
clever thunder
Interesting. Do you have an example ID I can look at?
blazing plume
yes
sub_1M4qMVC59TMCvkXUlPxRJC6u
"payment_intent": null,```I used the trial period to charge in advance for the subscription. When I want to cancel/refund, I first end the trial period. Could the problem be because the invoice takes from the customer's credit balance?
But again, I should be able to access that data.
clever thunder
Trial periods don't charge in advance on subscriptions. They create a $0 Invoice and no charges are created.
It looks like a similar thing is happening here, because the latest invoice has an amount of 0: https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/invoices/in_1M4qOmC59TMCvkXUYHrLXtDa
blazing plume
I know, but again how do I get the information(paymentIntent) I need for a refund?
clever thunder
It looks like the customer's balance paid for the invoice, so you can't refund it.
If there's no payment, there's no refund
blazing plume
So one of the solutions is that when I charge, I save that paymentIntent ID on my side.
I used the trial period to extend the subscription time. When I want to cancel/refund it (we do a full refund), I first have to cancel the trial period (if it's still in it) and do a full refund.
Since in that situation I can't get the paymentIntent object from Stripe with which it was charged, I assume that the only solution for me at the moment when I charge is to store that data on my side of the application (DB).
clever thunder
Yeah, you could do it that way. Another alternative would be not to use a trial to extend a subscription time
blazing plume
It certainly helped me a lot to brainstorm this with you. Thank you a lot.
clever thunder
Sure thing!