Sandeep

[topaz flume]

https://stripe.com/docs/api/refunds/create?lang=php#create_refund Hi there, this is the API you can use the create a refund

[timber pier]

$stripe = new \Stripe\StripeClient(
$Secretkey
);
$stripe->refunds->create([
'charge' => 'ch_3Kg1J9CCyjo9885A05OWHpcs',
]);

[topaz flume]

OK, does it work for you?

[timber pier]

yes its working

But its static code. I want dynamic

[topaz flume]

Then you should use variable instead of hard coded string.

[timber pier]

Yes, But how to get 'chargeid'

From where or how can get 'ch_3Kg1J9CCyjo9885A05OWHpcs'

[topaz flume]

Are you using PaymentIntents API or Charges API?

[timber pier]

No, I just create a customer and subscription

[topaz flume]

OK, so you are using Subscription API, then you should expand the latest_invoice hash of the subscription object, and get the payment_intent of the invoice.

You can also create a refund with a payment_intent (https://stripe.com/docs/api/refunds/create?lang=php#create_refund-payment_intent)

[timber pier]

$stripe = new \Stripe\StripeClient(
$Secretkey
);

        $customer = $stripe->customers->create([
          'description' => '4 weeks recurring / 3 months programe',
          'name' => $custname,
          'email' => $email,
          'payment_method'=> "pm_card_visa",
          'invoice_settings'=> [
            'default_payment_method'=> 'pm_card_visa'
          ]
        ]);                
        
        $customerid = $customer->id;
        
        //create subscription schedule
        
        $subscriptionsch = $stripe->subscriptionSchedules->create([
          'customer' => $customerid,
          'start_date' => 'now',
          'end_behavior' => 'cancel',
          'phases' => [
            [
              'items' => [
                [
                  'price' => 'price_1M8Jd0CCyjo95AF5RE8dy6',
                  'quantity' => 1,
                ],
              ],
              'iterations' => 2,
            ],
          ],
        ]);

This is my code. Please help me according to above code where exactly changes required..

[topaz flume]

Did you get my previous message? let me know if you need more help.

[timber pier]

Yes, I got.

I am using subscription schedule API

[topaz flume]

OK, then you can should retrieve the subscription from the schedule, retrieve the invoice and then payment_intent.

[timber pier]

You mean to say I create Invoice..

[topaz flume]

No, the subscription will create an invoice which you can retrieve from its latest_invoice hash, and you can get the payment_intent from it.

[timber pier]

I retrieve invoice_prefix, invoice_settings and next_invoice_sequence. But latest_invoice not

[topaz flume]

The latest_invoice is a property in subscription, not subscription schedule. You need to retrieve the subscription from the subscriptions schedule first.

[thorny gulch]

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

[timber pier]

Hello

How to get Charge Id

[thorny gulch]

any more context please?

[timber pier]

$stripe = new \Stripe\StripeClient(
$Secretkey
);
$refundpm = $stripe->refunds->create([
'charge' => 'ch_3M8OxHCCyjo9885A0DxEbSw7',
]);
print_r($refundpm);

This code is working. But this is hard code

[thorny gulch]

so you want to get the Charge Id for what exactly?

where does that Charge Id come from?

[timber pier]

I want to refund the payment using PHP

So I use Refund API

[thorny gulch]

ok but how are you getting the refund request?

[timber pier]

Client will request me on email.

[thorny gulch]

with what information exactly?

[timber pier]

Invoice ID, payment amount, date etc.

But invoice page is created in PHP not from Stripe

[thorny gulch]

which Invoice ID? in_xxx?

[timber pier]

No, I am not generating the invoice ID with the help of Stripe but with the help of my own developed code for generating random alphanumerical value as Invoice ID

$stripe = new \Stripe\StripeClient(
$Secretkey
);

        $customer = $stripe->customers->create([
          'description' => '4 weeks recurring / 3 months programe',
          'name' => $custname,
          'email' => $email,
          'payment_method'=> "pm_card_visa",
          'invoice_settings'=> [
            'default_payment_method'=> 'pm_card_visa'
          ]
        ]);                
        
        $customerid = $customer->id;
        
        //create subscription schedule
        
        $subscriptionsch = $stripe->subscriptionSchedules->create([
          'customer' => $customerid,
          'start_date' => 'now',
          'end_behavior' => 'cancel',
          'phases' => [
            [
              'items' => [
                [
                  'price' => 'price_1M8Jd0CCyjo95AF5RE8dy6',
                  'quantity' => 1,
                ],
              ],
              'iterations' => 2,
            ],
          ],
        ]);
        
        $subscriptionschid = $subscriptionsch->id;

I am using Customer and Subscription schedule APIs only..

[thorny gulch]

what is the Invoice Id that your customer will send you?

[timber pier]

Invoice #1103

[thorny gulch]

ok let me check

[timber pier]

Please do the required changes in the code.. Please

For the Refunding of Payment could start

[thorny gulch]

do you save this data anywhere at Stripe?

[timber pier]

Which data?

[thorny gulch]

you said you number your Invoices outside of Stripe

so Invoice #1103 is not saved in Stripe right? do you save in your db any Stripe Ids related to that invoice?

[timber pier]

Yes you are right. I save cus_xxx and sub_sched_xxx only regarding payment

If it is possible then please join me on team viewer or any other software for remote control you have to sort out this problem. Thank you..

[thorny gulch]

sorry that' not possible

[timber pier]

It's ok.

[thorny gulch]

you need to save the invoice ID in_xxx and not the sub_sched_xxx

this way it would be tied to a particular invoice

[timber pier]

Ok. Now please tell me how to do this..

I shared my code with you. Now please guide me the required changes to be done in the code.

[thorny gulch]

you haven't shared the code where you store the info in your database

when are you generating the invoice in your System instead of storing the sub_sched_xxx you need to save the in_xxx
to do so you can retrieve the Subscription Schedule, expand on the subscription field and get the latest_invoice and store that id

[thorny gulch]

from there if you want to refund you can do what my colleague suggested above

[timber pier]

If I do not store sub_sched_xxx then i am not able to cancel the subscription..

[thorny gulch]

you can store both in that case

[timber pier]

This is the file in which I store the info in database

[fleet marsh]

Hey! Taking over for my colleague. Let me catch up.

[timber pier]

Hello.

Please help me..

[fleet marsh]

Could you please summarize you latest follow-up question ?

[timber pier]

yes sure

actually we are using two api i.e. one customers and subscription schedules.. and we are storing cus_xx and sub_sch_xx and now I want to execute refund of payment with the help of these two parameters so how that would be possible ?

and for your sake of information we are sending invoice from our own website instead of stripe invoice

and shared all the code with you .. please help regarding refund

[fleet marsh]

So in order to refund the customer, you need to cancel the Subscription issued from the subscription schedule:
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/cancel#canceling
You can't refund an active subscription

[timber pier]

yes we are canceling through sub_sch_xx parameter

and now I want to make refund after cancelation with php code

if you want i can share the code for subscription cancelation

[fleet marsh]

You need to get the PaymentIntent used to pay the last Invoice of the subscription and refund it. You can find it in the lastest Invoice object of the subscription:
From the sub_ you get the invoiceId (or simply expand the invoice property)
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-latest_invoice
Then from the PaymentIntent Id on that invoice
https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-payment_intent
You create the refund:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/refunds/create
https://stripe.com/docs/refunds?dashboard-or-api=api

[timber pier]

I am not using subscription API. I am using subscription schedule API and latest Invoice object only we can retrieve from subscription API.

You can check my code also..

[fleet marsh]

For each subscription_scheulde you have a related Subscription. So from the Subscription Schedule Id you get the related Subscription Id and so on...
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/object#subscription_schedule_object-subscription

[timber pier]

Yes, I am getting sub_xxx when we cancel the subscription schedule. But how to store this value. Please guide me.

Stripe\StripeObject Object ( ) [on_behalf_of] => [proration_behavior] => create_prorations [start_date] => 1669711806 [transfer_data] => [trial_end] => ) ) [released_at] => [released_subscription] => [renewal_interval] => [status] => canceled [subscription] => sub_xxxxxx [test_clock] => )

[harsh wren]

How can I help?

[timber pier]

Hello

I want to refund the payment using PHP

[harsh wren]

Sure, so use the sub_xxx to get the latest_invoice.payment_intent field, which you can then use to create the refund

[timber pier]

But problem is this how to store the sub_xxx

[harsh wren]

What do you mean by 'store'?

[timber pier]

$stripe = new \Stripe\StripeClient(
$Secretkey
);
$stripe->subscriptionSchedules->cancel(
$subscriptionschid,
[]
);

Subscription cancelation code

store means.. How to store in database..

How to get sub_xxx from cancelation code..

[harsh wren]

If should be returned in response to the API call to cancel: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/cancel

See the subscription field

[timber pier]

Stripe\StripeObject Object ( ) [on_behalf_of] => [proration_behavior] => create_prorations [start_date] => 1669711806 [transfer_data] => [trial_end] => ) ) [released_at] => [released_subscription] => [renewal_interval] => [status] => canceled [subscription] => sub_xxxxxx [test_clock] => )

[harsh wren]

Can you share the ID (req_xxx) of the API request? https://support.stripe.com/questions/finding-the-id-for-an-api-request

[timber pier]

When i run cancel subscription schedule I got sub_xx

[harsh wren]

Or the sub_sched_xxx ID

[timber pier]

sub_sched_1M9PVyCCyjo9885AeyIKBlD0

[harsh wren]

Well, this is the Subscription ID: sub_1M9PVyCCyjo9885AcQwm6P1l

It was returned in the cancellation request: https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_ENqD3FWC0CMawE

Not sure why your code is redacting that to sub_xxx

[timber pier]

sub_1M9PVyCCyjo9885AcQwm6P1l

Yes, It is right

[harsh wren]

Ok, now what's the next step?

[timber pier]

Next is this how to refund..

[harsh wren]

Outlined here: #1047059320539451422 message

[timber pier]

I want to get this sub_1M9PVyCCyjo9885AcQwm6P1l dynamically

[harsh wren]

You can probably do it when you make the call to cancel the schedule by expanding fields:

$stripe->subscriptionSchedules->cancel(
  'sub_sched_xxx',
  ['expand' => ['subscription.latest_invoice.payment_intent']]
);

That payment_intent hash will include the pi_xxx ID you need to create the refund

[timber pier]

Thank you. I try this code..

I run above code. But its not retrieve pi_xxx

Any other ID

[harsh wren]

Well, looking at the invoice associated with that subscription (https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/invoices/in_1M9S85CCyjo9885As5mV1uiq), there's no payment due. So we won't have created a Payment Intent

And there's nothing to even refund

[timber pier]

sub_sched_1M9SbBCCyjo9885AUVsDNRt8

[harsh wren]

Same for the initial invoice on that subscription, too: https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/invoices/in_1M9SdGCCyjo9885ABwwmGV8o

[timber pier]

Ok. But how it is possible...

$stripe->subscriptionSchedules->cancel(
'sub_sched_xxx',
['expand' => ['subscription.latest_invoice.payment_intent']]
);

I run above code.. which you suggest..

[harsh wren]

Well because you created the subscription which generated an invoice (https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/invoices/in_1M9SbBCCyjo9885ArsNYRTc2) and then ~immediately cancelled it so we create a refund/credit amount for the customer (https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/invoices/in_1M9SdGCCyjo9885ABwwmGV8o)

That last will be finalised and the customer will be 'refunded' via a credit balance adjustment in an hour

But the initial invoice was never paid, so there's nothing really to refund

[timber pier]

Do you want to say the code you sent for the cancellation the same code will make refund as well as the same time?? Is that so?? I am little confused.

[harsh wren]

The original invoice I shared (https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/invoices/in_1M9SbBCCyjo9885ArsNYRTc2) that was generated when you created the subscription was closed unpaid – the customer never made a payment for that invoice

With that in mind, what exactly do you want to refund?

[timber pier]

https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/payments/pi_3M93jbCCyjo9885A1qbwXnOi

please check the link above where payment has been made and also refund option showing there in the form of button

but i want refund of payment with the code from my website admin panel for which the code i sent you already not through the stripe admin panel..

[strong portal]

https://stripe.com/docs/refunds?dashboard-or-api=api#issuing is the code used to issue a refund from the API.

[timber pier]

https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/invoices/in_1M9THYCCyjo9885AiMXPmqax

[strong portal]

what's your question?

[timber pier]

hello, my question is this

I want two separate options.. One is cancel the subscription. In this process there should not be any refund and it should stop the subscription so that future pending payments not to be processed and in the second case I want the refund option for the past payments. So basically I do not want to club these two together..

[strong portal]

One is cancel the subscription. In this process there should not be any refund and it should stop the subscription so that future pending payments not to be processed
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/cancel

in the second case I want the refund option for the past payments.
you'd cancel the subscription as above, and then also list all previous payments for that customer and call the refund API for each one

[timber pier]

I used customer and subscription schedule API

$stripe = new \Stripe\StripeClient(
$Secretkey
);
$op = $stripe->subscriptionSchedules->cancel(
$subschid,
[]
);

[strong portal]

ok, and what's the question?

[timber pier]

Now question is this how to refund...

$stripe = new \Stripe\StripeClient(
$Secretkey
);
$refundpm = $stripe->refunds->create([
'charge' => 'ch_3M8OxHCCyjo9885A0DxEbSw7',
]);

This is my payment refund code. But I need to know How to get ch_xxx

Or any other way to refund the payment by using code..

[strong portal]

$payment_intent->charges->data[0]->id

but you don't need it

per https://stripe.com/docs/refunds?dashboard-or-api=api#issuing linked above , it shows that you can pass the PaymentIntent ID pi_xxx to the refund API and it works.

[timber pier]

Now Question is this how to get pi_xxxx

[strong portal]

invoice->payment_intent

[timber pier]

Please guide me as per my code where I add the code which you sent me.

[strong portal]

what have you tried and where are you stuck?

we're not writing code for you.

[timber pier]

$stripe = new \Stripe\StripeClient(
$Secretkey
);
$refundpm = $stripe->refunds->create([
'charge' => 'ch_3M8OxHCCyjo9885A0DxEbSw7',
]);

I tried above code to refund the payment...

But this is a hard code. I need dynamic code.. How to get ch_xxxx to refund the payment..

[strong portal]

you would have an $invoice object you retrieved from the API previously, and then from there, you can pass 'charge' => $invoice->payment_intent',

[timber pier]

As per my code where I add these parameters..

[strong portal]

which parameters?

[timber pier]

which you sent me

[strong portal]

I told you in the answer

sorry this is really simple and I don't know how else I can explain it

[timber pier]

But i am little confuse

[strong portal]

  $refundpm = $stripe->refunds->create([
    'charge' => $invoice->payment_intent,
    ]);

[timber pier]

Thank you..

How to get the invoice object..

Because I am not creating the invoice through stripe panel..

[strong portal]

what do you think, where have you looked?

you said you wanted to refund all invoices for a customer's subscription which you're cancelling, right?

[timber pier]

I just want the refund for the recent payment..

Not all the invoices for a particular customer.

[strong portal]

and in your code you don't have that payment?

like your question is "I want to refund a payment, but I don't know how, and I don't know which payment it is", which makes it quite hard to help you.

[timber pier]

not its not like that..

[strong portal]

https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/list#list_invoices-customer is one way to list recent invoices for a customer

[timber pier]

can you please help me only for single payment done in starting which is paid during subscription

and if in case customer want to cancel the subscription then that will cancel first or we can cancel even the subscription and thereafter for that payment we can process the refund..

[strong portal]

I don't understand your English in this sentence sorry

[strong portal]

you can refund the payment at any time regardless of if the subscription it's associated with is cancelled or not.

[timber pier]

ok and that can be done from php code .. right ?

[strong portal]

yes

that's what we've been talking about for the last 5 hours

[timber pier]

yes of course that is the exact problem where php code is running perfectly but only when i put charge_id which is taken from the stripe panel

but i want that charge_id from my own database and my query is simple how can i store that charge_id while payment was done..

actually please try to understand my query.. when i get the charge_id from the stripe panel and put as hard code in refund php code then it work fine.. no problem..

[strong portal]

I know that

[strong portal]

$invoice->payment_intent

you e.g. listen to the invoice.paid webhook event to be notified when a payment happens and can save the details to your database at that point, such as the Invoice's PaymentIntent.

[timber pier]

but i dont want to get charge_id from the stripe panel .. i want to store here in my own database.. and how can i do that ?

[strong portal]

@timber pier makes sense?

[timber pier]

yes this make sense absolutely..

now can you help me or you can send me the php code to listen webhook for invoice.paid when a payment happen

and please one thing that i want to clear to you

i am not generating invoice from stripe

but instead i am sending invoice from my own system

[strong portal]

@timber pier that's incorrect

you explicitly said you're using the Subscription and SubscriptionSchedule APIs

so you are using our Invoices and generating them in Stripe.

e.g. look at them all here https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/invoices

[strong portal]

sure!
https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/quickstart
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks

[timber pier]

I am using Customer and Subscription Schedule API for creating customer and creating subscription schedule

[strong portal]

yep

and those create Invoices

a SubscriptionSchedule manages a Subscription, a Subscription creates Invoices, that's what a Subscription is

[timber pier]

ok that is correct... Subscription create invoice but I am not using that..

[strong portal]

yes, you are.

[timber pier]

so according to you is that mandatory to use Subscription module

to generate invoice and I have to send Invoice only from stripe panel automatically

[strong portal]

I mean that's what our "subscription module" is.

[timber pier]

yes i got that..

[strong portal]

no you can do this all through the API

sorry but you're so completely lost I don't know how I can help you. You need to spend some time reading the docs and writing your own code

[timber pier]

ok please give me one answer please

[strong portal]

oh another one "just one"?

go ahead

[timber pier]

yes please..

please confirm me that can i skip Subscription module which is used to generate invoice while payment ?

and this is mandatory if I want to implement refund code ?

[strong portal]

what do you mean by "skipping" it?

[timber pier]

skipping means I am not using Subscription module at all in my php code..

[strong portal]

ok ,you might not be using $stripe->subscription. But you are using $stripe->subscriptionSchedules

a SubscriptionSchedule manages a Subscription, a Subscription creates Invoices

you might not actually interact directly with the Subscription objects in your code, sure, that is possible. But you are still "using" Stripe subscriptions.

[timber pier]

ok got it.. so according to this scenario .. can i make refund with php code because i havent used subscription and thus no invoice is there in stripe..

[strong portal]

wrong

there is an invoice in Stripe

again, what do you think https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/invoices these are?

if you want to refund the invoice, you can use https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/list#list_invoices-customer to list the invoices for a given customer, and each $invoice object returned has a payment_intent field, and you can pass that ID to the refund API. I explained all that above. If you take 30 minutes to write some code and try it out, it will make sense.

[timber pier]

ok ok... sure i do that first and then let you know if find some problem..