#truuutipz-subscription-cancel

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zenith shardBOT
ember merlin
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truuutipz-subscription-cancel

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@frank canopy that's not really possible sadly. What you can do is look at the credit after the cancellation and then refund a recent charge (or multiple ones)

frank canopy
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Okay so if I cancel a subscription using Cancel Subscripton Stripe API.

A customer will get credits back. If I'm interested in using the refund stripe API, how could I make sure that the credits will not be applied on their next invoice since they will be refunded for the amount?

tame drift
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generally, the way i would go about it is to refund the customer immediately and then adjust the customer's balance once the refund succeeds.

frank canopy
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@tame drift are there any stripe apis that could help me achieve what you just mentioned?

tame drift
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This is not something which Stripe does automatically at the moment, you would do the following steps :
-Look at the credit in the account balance and/or sum pending invoice items
-Use the List Invoices API and pass the subscription id in the subscription parameter to only view Invoices for that subscription. Also expand the associated charge if any. For each invoice:
Check if there’s an associated charge
If so, create a refund for up to the amount of the account balance
If the charge amount is smaller than the credit, refund fully and subtract the charge amount from the credit
Move to the next invoice in the list until the full credit has been refunded
-Update the customer’s account balance back to 0 via the API and/or delete the pending invoice items.

Related API links :
https://stripe.com/docs/api/customer_balance_transactions
https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/list
https://stripe.com/docs/api/expanding_objects

frank canopy
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thank you for the information! Ill take a look and if I have any questions, I will follow up

frank canopy
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When you say associated charge, which parameter should I be looking at? Is it amount_due?

tame drift
frank canopy
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Got it, thank yyou!

frank canopy
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@tame drift Thanks for all your help, I took a lot of the docs and I think I understand how to implement this. Just want to go with the flow with you to confirm

  1. Customer invokes Stripe Cancel Subscription with parameters invoice_now and prorate set to true

  2. Receive the subscriptionId from the canceled subscription

  3. Given the subscriptionId from the canceled subscription, I invoke the Stripe List Invoices API and expand the charge object

  4. List Invoices API w/ subscriptionId as a parameter returns a list of invoices of my canceled subscription. For each iteration, I look at the charge object and look at charge.amount

  • I invoke Stripe API to either retrieve or list customer balance transactions of the associated canceled subscription, we'll name it customer.balance.amount
  • If charge.amount < customer.balance.amount, I refund fully and calculate (charge.amount - customer.balance.amount)
  • Repeat the same steps for each iteration in the list of invoices
  1. Invoke Stripe API to update customer balance transaction to 0 since at this point, customer should be fully refunded and delete the pending invoice associated to the canceled subscription
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Does these steps above seem correct? ^

tame drift
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it looks correct to me, but as usual, test it out and see if everything works as expected.