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naive forumBOT Jan 9, 2023, 9:40 PM

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tender abyss Jan 9, 2023, 9:40 PM

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Hi 👋 do you have a question that we can help you with?

steady blaze Jan 9, 2023, 9:41 PM

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oops! i had my cursor in the wrong window....

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but i did have a question!

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i wanted to confirm that it's possible to have a charge without an associated customer

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and 2) if that's the case, how can i associate a charge id with a customer i create afterwards

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does updating the customer field here: https://stripe.com/docs/api/charges/update update the customer's profile with this charge that was created in the past?

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tender abyss Jan 9, 2023, 9:44 PM

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Yes, you can create Charges that are not associated with Customer objects, though if you're working on a new integration you'll probably want to use Payment Intents instead of Charges.

steady blaze Jan 9, 2023, 9:45 PM

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yeah, unfortunately the payload that we're getting with a charge id comes from an integration out of our hands: https://help.calendly.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002674754-Stripe#getstarted

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tender abyss Jan 9, 2023, 9:45 PM

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Ah gotcha.

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I'm not sure off-hand what happens if you take a Charge that had no value in the customer field when the payment was processed, but then was attached to one later. I would recommend setting up a quick test flow to see how that impacts the Charge object and if it leads to the behavior you're hoping.

steady blaze Jan 9, 2023, 9:49 PM

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i'll give that a try 😕

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its unfortunate that the calendly integration linked doesn't differentiate between testing vs prod environments, which means that charges are against prod...

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thus the 😕

tender abyss Jan 9, 2023, 9:51 PM

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Oh, that sounds pretty frustrating. Have you reached out to Calendly to see if there is a way to run your project in their service in test mode? (Stripe uses different API keys to differentiate between test and live modes)

steady blaze Jan 9, 2023, 9:52 PM

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we haven't but we should (not holding my breath on that one...)

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