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worldly cairnBOT Apr 10, 2023, 3:45 PM

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nova elbow Apr 10, 2023, 3:45 PM

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Hi 👋

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What do you mean by Tax type?

lost raven Apr 10, 2023, 3:48 PM

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in stripe you need the tax type to create a taxID for a customer

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I mean "eu_vat" nomenclature

nova elbow Apr 10, 2023, 3:48 PM

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Ah, you mean this: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/object#customer_object-tax_ids-data-type

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And where are you looking to get the type in relation to an amount? In an Invoice? On the Dashboard?

lost raven Apr 10, 2023, 3:50 PM

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I mean I take this tax type on my business logic depending the country the user enters

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But now, I want to know if just with the tax value example ATU12345678 I can know the tax type ?

nova elbow Apr 10, 2023, 3:51 PM

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That's still not clear to me where you are tying to get the tax type. What Stripe object are you accessing?

lost raven Apr 10, 2023, 3:53 PM

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I need to create the tax id object for a customer

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My question is my customer enter the tax id value and I'm managing this on my backend

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so I want to know the easier way to extract the tax type

nova elbow Apr 10, 2023, 3:58 PM

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"Extract the tax type" from where? Is retrieving the Customer object and looking up tax_ids.data.type not an acceptable approach?

lost raven Apr 10, 2023, 3:58 PM

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But when I create the user

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I need want to put the tax id object on it

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I need the tax type and the tax value right?

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then the tax value the user enters, but the tax type is there any way?

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to know the tax type given a tax value

nova elbow Apr 10, 2023, 4:02 PM

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Okay, is the customer record being created at that point? Or updated?

lost raven Apr 10, 2023, 4:03 PM

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created

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actually I create the user passing the taxID as parameters.

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the thing is that to know the vat type I ask the user to introduce his country then I map the name of the country with your vat type codes. I want to know if there is a better way to do that?

nova elbow Apr 10, 2023, 4:08 PM

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So what you want is the Customer record after it has been created/updated in Stripe. So I would listen for the customer.created event https://stripe.com/docs/api/events/types#event_types-customer.created

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That will return the Customer object that you can examine to determine the tax type

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Are you currently using webhooks?

lost raven Apr 10, 2023, 4:08 PM

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yes

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but how the customer know the tax type?

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I dont understand

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I create an empty customer with any data

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I mean having this: ATU12345678 how I can know that the tax type is "eu_vat"?

nova elbow Apr 10, 2023, 4:12 PM

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You mean when you are making the update to Stripe?

lost raven Apr 10, 2023, 4:12 PM

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yes

nova elbow Apr 10, 2023, 4:15 PM

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Wouldn't that be something the Customer would provide? https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/customer/tax-ids?dashboard-or-api=api

lost raven Apr 10, 2023, 4:16 PM

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yes

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the user will provide the tax value

nova elbow Apr 10, 2023, 4:20 PM

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let me try testing something

lost raven Apr 10, 2023, 4:31 PM

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Okey

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do you get something?

nova elbow Apr 10, 2023, 4:32 PM

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Sorry it got a little busy, still testing

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Wait, nope you will need to know the tax_id type before you submit it to Stripe. So this is something either your customer would need to identify or your integration should pick up on.

lost raven Apr 10, 2023, 4:36 PM

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nova elbow Wait, nope you will need to know the tax_id type _before_ you submit it to Strip...

what do you mean?

nova elbow Apr 10, 2023, 4:38 PM

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When you provide the tax_id value it is required that you also provide the type: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/create#create_customer-tax_id_data

nova elbow Apr 10, 2023, 5:12 PM

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So it isn't something you would get from Stripe, you would need to know it and provide it when creating/updating the Customer.

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