Th3FalleN | Stripe Developers | Page 1

red cometBOT Jan 23, 2023, 5:14 PM

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cedar pine Jan 23, 2023, 5:15 PM

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"the attempted key bet set to true" what does that mean?

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Can you clarify which API endpoint exactly you are reaching?

valid locust Jan 23, 2023, 5:15 PM

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the attempted key in the subscription preview

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/upcoming

Stripe API reference – Retrieve an upcoming invoice – curl

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

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providing a subscription id customer and subscription line items

cedar pine Jan 23, 2023, 5:16 PM

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attempted is a property of an Invoice, not a subscription. And the preview does not actually create an invoice

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So no, it won't

valid locust Jan 23, 2023, 5:18 PM

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so, how would one determine is the current update to the subscription im previewing would include a previous failed balance?

cedar pine Jan 23, 2023, 5:19 PM

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What do you mean "failed balance"?

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Do you mean a full billing cycle where payment was not collected?

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And then you want to preview the next billing cycle's invoice?

valid locust Jan 23, 2023, 5:20 PM

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so a customer has a subscription, and their due day was yesterday but the rebill failed for any reason

cedar pine Jan 23, 2023, 5:20 PM

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Stripe won't roll over unpaid balances to a new invoice

valid locust Jan 23, 2023, 5:20 PM

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when they come into resolve that they can technically make alterations to their seats which would result in an update to the subscription

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who's total would be the update + the prior balance

cedar pine Jan 23, 2023, 5:21 PM

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If the prior invoice was generated, Stripe expects you to attempt collection

valid locust Jan 23, 2023, 5:21 PM

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okay, we'll have to update our flow to not let them modify their subscription when renewing

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or cancel the subscription and create a new one would be the correct flow in that case?

cedar pine Jan 23, 2023, 5:24 PM

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I would not cancel, since you would lose that history. However, you entirely control what the customer can do in terms of updating their subscriptions so you could include logic that requires payment of past invoices before modifications.

valid locust Jan 23, 2023, 5:24 PM

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which would involve using the invoice search endpoint to get any past due ones i assume?

cedar pine Jan 23, 2023, 5:26 PM

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That depends on the flow. I would not recommend Search for anything super critical as there are race condition scenarios. Search isn't realtime and we call that out. You can use the List API which is indexed faster than Search and it allows filtering by Customer and Status: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/list

valid locust Jan 23, 2023, 5:27 PM

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👍 i'll take note of that

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thanks again!

cedar pine Jan 23, 2023, 5:29 PM

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Happy to help 🙂

valid locust Jan 23, 2023, 5:30 PM

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also do you guys have any integration reps that advise on the best way to setup products in stripe etc for particular flows?

cedar pine Jan 23, 2023, 5:33 PM

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I don't think so.

valid locust Jan 23, 2023, 5:34 PM

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👍 figured i'd ask thanks again as always!

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