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wise pollen
ebon light
this is how it looks from stripe dashboard, no default payment method
However in the detail of customer:
hearty estuary
You need to explicitly set the default payment method: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-default_payment_method
ebon light
Whats the proper way to retrieve it off the customer then?
As per docs, I can retrieve the list of his payment methods https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_methods/list
Do I just pick a random one of those? I suppose there is a better way to do it 🙂
hearty estuary
Well that's up to you and your integration. I recommend giving your customer the choice to select the one they want to use
ebon light
Well the flow I got advised is to create a checkout session with initial payment + after such payment create a subscription with trial till the first day of month after next month (without user's choice)
Since the user already chosen this path beforee...
hearty estuary
Well you can use the payment method from their checkout session then
ebon light
Is there any ttl of such session?
hearty estuary
What do you mean?
ebon light
I am trying to get the payment method id from session as you said, however it seems like its not there. Do I have to wait for it? If so, how long?
"livemode": false,
"locale": null,
"metadata": {},
"mode": "payment",
"object": "checkout.session",
"payment_intent": "pi_xxx",
"payment_link": null,
"payment_method_collection": "always",
"payment_method_options": {},
"payment_method_types": [
"card",
"link"
],
"payment_status": "paid",
This is what I am receiving from such checkout session. There is no payment method id I can reuse, only payment intent id, which throws this:
No such PaymentMethod: 'pi_xxx'
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hearty estuary
You'll need to get it off the associated payment intent
No such PaymentMethod: 'pi_xxx'
That's because you're trying to retrieve the payment intent as if it were a payment method but it's not
And the payment method will be on that object
ebon light
Alright 👍 What happens if such payment method expires / is removed by user?
- I assume such checkout session should be only used for those 2 actions and not reused in the future?
Does user receive any email / can update his subscription payment method or does such subscription just expire?
hearty estuary
If payment method is removed by the user you will have to collect another one. There's not a way around that. Checkout sessions aren't reusable. The payment method created is though because you passed setup_future_usage: off_session.
Does user receive any email / can update his subscription payment method or does such subscription just expire?
What do you mean?
ebon light
I was thinking maybe his card will expire in few days while he has it attached to the subscription. Will the user receive any notification from Stripe - maybe offering to update his payment method?
Or the payment will just fail -> subscription will expire?
hearty estuary
You need to configure that in your settings here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/settings/billing/automatic
Under prevent failed payments
ebon light
Alright 👍 I will implement the information gained during today and get in touch tomorrow if there is anything else. Thanks for your help!