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[fallen thistle]

Hi
in order to cover all use cases for Subscription you should be listening to invoice.paid event and not charge.succeeded:
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks

[limber forum]

but how can you explain that most of my subscriptions return an event charge.succeeded and some do not?

[fallen thistle]

For example, if the invoice amount is zero, you wan't get a charge.succeeded.

Use invoice.paid event, you'll get one for every invoice paid of a Subscription as mentioned in the guide I shared with you.

[limber forum]

I understood that I need to use another event, but my question is to understand why most of my events send event charge.succeeded, and some not. For the subscription example sub_1ME8UHIw9wsbuV8tPeU4GXGj, the amount is not zero, and the event is not sent

[fallen thistle]

For the subscription you shared ( sub_1ME8UHIw9wsbuV8tPeU4GXGj), there is this invoice in_1ME8UHIw9wsbuV8twRW4SJuy for example which amount is zero.

[limber forum]

the invoice in_1Mx5abIw9wsbuV8tSSnVs5Wv is not zero, but no event sent

[fallen thistle]

Yeah, stripe don't send automatically for each recurring payment a charge.succeeded.

If you want to get explicitly that event in test mode, you can use on these cards:
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks#testing:~:text=Perform actions in,successful charge.

[limber forum]

events cannot be sent with random process, there must be something wrong during Subscription creation causing event not be sent

I want to understand why, for this Subscription, there is no event sent, but for all other Subscriptions, event is sent

[fallen thistle]

Check the guide I mentioned with you:
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks
you can't rely on charge.succeeded as it's not fired for each recurring payments.

[limber forum]

is this something about Customer context? Payment method used?

I'm sorry, I have understood that you want me to use another event, this is not my question, I will do it

I want to know why the context is different for this Subscription causing event not be sent

you said "as it's not fired for each recurring payments", it's done for most of my Subscriptions (and I have thousand) but for some specifics Subscription, it's not

what are the differences between Subscription sending this event and other which are not sending it?

[fallen thistle]

Between for this invoice, there was an event charge.succeeded
https://dashboard.stripe.com/events/evt_3Mx6XNIw9wsbuV8t1SiaXhxX

[fallen thistle]

In general if there was no charge created the there'll be no charge.succeded event

[fallen thistle]

When using Subscription you may not receive always charge.succeeded (it depends on the payment method mostly)

[limber forum]

the event you gave me is not displayed in list of events, why?

ho yes it is, at the end of list, sorry

this event is not listed of Subscription page, strange

and the event you gave me was not send on my webhook

why?

maybe to old and not displayed

ok understood: I was looking for event displayed in Subscription events, but it's related to Invoice page, so not the good place to look for

[fallen thistle]

Let me know if there's any follow-up Qs I can answer!

[limber forum]

thanks for your patience and your help, have a nice day 🙏

[fallen thistle]

Welcome! Have a great day!