#ian-reactnative-defaultpm

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plucky urchin
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ian-reactnative-defaultpm

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@tacit owl Are you using our Billing product to do recurring payments/Subscriptions?

tacit owl
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yes

plucky urchin
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Okay so let's ignore React Native just for a second. Can you share the code you use to create the Subscription?

tacit owl
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 /**
   * creates a subscription with a trial period
   */
    async createSubscriptionTrial({ customer_id, price_id, coupon_id, product_id }: StripePurchase) {

        const payload: Stripe.SubscriptionCreateParams = {
            customer: customer_id,
            items: [{ price: price_id }],
            payment_behavior: 'default_incomplete',
            expand: ['latest_invoice.payment_intent'],
            trial_period_days: trialLength,
            coupon: coupon_id,
        };


        const subscriptionPayload = await this.setSubscriptionDestinationAccount(product_id, payload);

        const [ephemeralKey, setupIntent] = await Promise.all([
            this.client.ephemeralKeys.create({ customer: customer_id }, { apiVersion }),
            this.client.setupIntents.create({ customer: customer_id }),
            this.createSubscription(subscriptionPayload),
        ]);


        return {
            id: setupIntent.id,
            client_secret: setupIntent.client_secret,
            ephemeral_key: ephemeralKey.secret,
            customer_id,
        };
    }
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the create subscription function just wraps the stripe create subscription function

plucky urchin
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Okay so that's your problem! On that code when you create the Subscription you forgot a really important setting that says basically "hey whenever you pay an Invoice please make this PaymentMethod the default"

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basically you add payment_settings: { save_default_payment_method: 'on_subscription', }, to your code and then try paying again in your app and you'll see it will be made the default for that Subscription

tacit owl
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got it. i thought i was missing something like that! thanks

plucky urchin
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try it and let me know if that doesn't work and we can look together

tacit owl
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ok

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going to try it soon just wondering if a trial will charge the payment method added when the subscription starts and set the default payment method if the payment method is not already set as the default

plucky urchin
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If you do trials, you should not be creating the SetupIntent yourself at all.

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Instead the Subscription will create one for you and return it in pending_setup_intent

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Try that code and look at the response, you should see pending_setup_intent: 'seti_123' on the Subscription. That's the SetupIntent to confirm with ReactNative not a separate one

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So there's quite a lot to change in your overall integration here

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If you don't want to change all of that it's fine. In that case what you need to do really is after the SetupIntent is confirmed, write code that will go and call the Update Customer API https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/update and then set invoice_settings[default_payment_method]: 'pm_12345' but it won't be automatic

tacit owl
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that makes sense.

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thanks. inhereted some of this so working though it now

plucky urchin
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yeah maybe my last option will be a lot easier for you

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you must have some kind of code that detectsthe SetupIntent succeeding already and then you can just update the Customer

tacit owl
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yeah i think thats how we did it previously but i think expanding the pending setup intent and returning the setup intent id and client secret shouldnt be a problem

plucky urchin
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ah yeah if you're already familiar with expansion and all that, it's definitely better that way 🙂

tacit owl
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yes thank you this looks to be working as expected

plucky urchin
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damn you're fast 🙂

tacit owl
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while i have you here i need to update my api version to the latest (2022-11-15 how do you recommend doing that on my live account?

plucky urchin
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oh boy

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how old is your current version?

tacit owl
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2020-08-07

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27

plucky urchin
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okay so you're not too far behind. I'd recommend reading all the breaking changes on https://stripe.com/docs/upgrades first to gather what that means to your own code.
Then I would recommend changing your code to pin to the latest API version first using https://stripe.com/docs/api/versioning to ensure all your code server-side is pinned
then move to your webhook handler, adding a new endpoint with the latest API version and start processing all Events that way

tacit owl
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the sdk needed an upgrade but ive done that before and im familiar with the breaking changes

plucky urchin
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after all of that is done, changing the default API version on your account should change nothing else since everything is already "pinned"

tacit owl
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got it