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pearl harborBOT Jan 26, 2023, 7:30 PM

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tulip epoch Jan 26, 2023, 7:31 PM

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Can you share an example Subscription ID with me? I'm not fully following the sequence of events, but I can see the requests you're making if you share an ID

grizzled pewter Jan 26, 2023, 7:32 PM

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tulip epoch Jan 26, 2023, 7:33 PM

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thanks! let me take a look

grizzled pewter Jan 26, 2023, 7:34 PM

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use case is we show the customer's shipping/billing/email address and payment method, we allow them to update them in our app

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but I don't see how to show the payment method that is used for payment on the next invoice

tulip epoch Jan 26, 2023, 7:34 PM

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Ahhh I see what you're saying now - you're using payment_settings.save_default_payment_method to save the PM as the default on the Subscription automatically, but you're hitting a weird edge case because you have no way of surfacing that back to the user in a PaymentMethods list view

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grizzled pewter Jan 26, 2023, 7:38 PM

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well, yeah, when I list customer's payment, I'm not sure how to show the user what payment method is going to be used on the next invoice\

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and there also doesn't seem to be a default payment method flag on the payment method list response

tulip epoch Jan 26, 2023, 7:43 PM

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So i'd actually recommend you not use payment_settings.save_default_payment_method and instead do this:

Create the Subscription + confirm/complete the first payment
Once payment is complete, take the created PaymentMethod and set it as invoice_settings.default_payment_method on the Customer (see https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/update#update_customer-invoice_settings-default_payment_method)

Setting invoice_settings.default_payment_method will use that as the default PaymentMethod for all Subscriptions and Invoices, and it's something you can easily retrieve on the Customer

Stripe API reference – Update a customer – curl

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grizzled pewter Jan 26, 2023, 7:44 PM

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perfect, thanks, and then I would need to pull the current subscription to see the default payment method ID (and then pull the payment method details) ?

tulip epoch Jan 26, 2023, 7:46 PM

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If you switch to the method I mentioned, you wouldn't need to pull the current subscription at all - you'd have it all from the customer

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Just to be really clear - if you set invoice_settings.default_payment_method on the Customer you don't need to set a default on the Subscription itself. When it's time for the subscription to renew it'll check if the Customer has a default PM and use that for payment

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