#scmitton
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slate stag
Hi, can you share which integration document you're following here?
haughty sleet
I'm trying to follow this: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions?ui=elements#collect-payment But in my scenario I passed a trial_period_days parameter to createSubscription. I found that I couldn't expand latest_invoice.payment_intent but instead I could expand pending_setup_intent to find the client secret. But apparently that client secret doesn't work for some reason?
slate stag
Can you confirm what 'I couldn't expand latest_invoice.payment_intent ' means?
haughty sleet
This is how I create a subscription: subscription = stripe.Subscription.create(
'customer': customer_id,
'items': [{'price': price_id}],
'payment_behavior': 'default_incomplete',
'payment_settings': {
'save_default_payment_method': 'on_subscription'
},
'expand': ['pending_setup_intent'],
'trial_period_days': trial_period_days,
)
But this is what the docs have: subscription = stripe.Subscription.create(
'customer': customer_id,
'items': [{'price': price_id}],
'payment_behavior': 'default_incomplete',
'payment_settings': {
'save_default_payment_method': 'on_subscription'
},
'expand': ['latest_invoice.payment_intent'],
'trial_period_days': trial_period_days,
)
Notice the 'expand' field
slate stag
Yeap
haughty sleet
If I look at the subscription, there is no client secret anywhere in it
When expand is this: 'expand': ['latest_invoice.payment_intent'] there's no client secret anywhere, but when expand is this: 'expand': ['pending_setup_intent'], there is a field called client_secret, but when I pass it to the front end to use in confirmPayment, it gives an error like I originally mentioned.
haughty sleet
Should there still be a client secret even though I've specified a trial length?
slate stag
That.. I'm trying to confirm on my end...
haughty sleet
Well for starters it looks like pending_setup_intent is not meant for confirming payment like I was trying to do, just found that out from the docs. But the question still remains as to why I can't get the client secret from the latest_invoice.
slate stag
That is correct, the Setup client secret and the Payment intent client secret are different. One is used to collect payment details for future use. One is set up for a payment that is currently occurring. What I'm trying to do is what I get from my end if I add a trial period on a subscription. That is what you're doing, right?
I think the issue is that since there is a trial, no amount to be paid, you're seeing this behavior.
haughty sleet
Yeah, so I'm trying to checkout the user, and collect their card info for payment after the trial ends. What I assumed to be a pretty basic scenario. When I create the subscription on the server side the way I've described it doesn't send me any client secret to give me to the front end, which I will need in order to use the stripe.confirmPayment api. Here's a the stripe api call to create the subscription that returns no client secret: stripe.Subscription.create(
'customer': <customer_id>,
'items': [{'price': <price_id>}],
'payment_behavior': 'default_incomplete',
payment_settings={
'save_default_payment_method': 'on_subscription'
},
'expand': ['latest_invoice'],
'trial_end': <unix timestamp>,
'proration_behavior': 'none',
)
I suppose a way I might be able to get this to work, is to create a normal subscription without a free trial, then after the user's payment info is confirmed, update the subscription to have a free trial.
Seems kinda hacky though to me
slate stag
You do not need a work around here... Let me find out document on this.
haughty sleet
Glad to hear
slate stag
I can't find that document now... but what you're seeing is expected. And with the Setup intent client secret you received, instead of confirm PaymentIntent call, you'd use this https://stripe.com/docs/js/setup_intents/confirm_setup
slate stag
No problem!