eoghanobrien | Stripe Developers | Page 1

thorny shaleBOT Apr 17, 2023, 8:25 PM

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simple oriole Apr 17, 2023, 8:27 PM

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Hi there 👋 I would recommend reviewing our guide for updating existing Subscriptions to ensure they'll collect tax amounts moving forward:
https://stripe.com/docs/tax/subscriptions/update

Please let me know if you've already reviewed that though and have a more targeted question or concern.

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stray robin Apr 17, 2023, 8:34 PM

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Thanks @simple oriole that's helpful when I have an Address, in our case, we have some customers who don't have an associated address at all - we're probably going to end up asking for billing address eventually, but in the first part of our roll-out, we're looking to be as smart as possible about the data we already have so, looking on default_source and default_payment_method for zip and country was one way to find at least the zip and country, but some don't even have that. So I was just curious, could we try getting all payment methods on file for a customer and look up their billing details there and do you know of any other spots?

simple oriole Apr 17, 2023, 8:38 PM

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Ah, gotcha. Looking at the Payment Methods or Sources are good places to start.

The only other objects that come to mind where you might find some insights, is on Payment Intents or Checkout Sessions if you used those but didn't update the Customer objects with the details from them or didn't save those Payment Methods for future reuse.

stray robin Apr 17, 2023, 8:40 PM

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Ah great, I thought all payment methods for subscriptions created via Checkout Sessions were saved for future use, no?

simple oriole Apr 17, 2023, 8:41 PM

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They are.

stray robin Apr 17, 2023, 8:42 PM

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Gotcha, you meant one-time payments?

simple oriole Apr 17, 2023, 8:43 PM

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Yeah, I wasn't sure if you had any sort of one-time no-save flow available to your customers.

stray robin Apr 17, 2023, 8:43 PM

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Good call. Is it possible to have a payment method associated with a subscription object but not with a customer object?

simple oriole Apr 17, 2023, 8:44 PM

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No, I'm pretty sure that isn't possible.

thorny shaleBOT Apr 17, 2023, 8:45 PM

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stray robin Apr 17, 2023, 8:49 PM

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Okay, cool. That's super helpful, thank you! Is there a service to lookup an address based on payment method data securely such that we're not passing sensitive financial data over the wire

lost tangle Apr 17, 2023, 8:50 PM

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Stepping in here, can you add more details to your last question? I do not fully understand it.

stray robin Apr 17, 2023, 8:52 PM

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Yeah, sorry, a bit of a stretch really I think. I was thinking that some (most?) payment methods have zip/country data associated with them, I was just curious if there was an API service (within Stripe) to fill the state based on the zip, since oftentimes, in order to determine the correct tax amount requires some mix of those 3 data points. It would be useful to be able to do this for other countries too.

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