tx_monster

[odd karma]

Hi! Let me help you with this.

Yes, that's fine. If that's too annoying to have opened Invoices and Subscriptions, you could instead collect the Payment Method first with SetupIntents and then create a Subscription/Invoice and charge them one go. Here's how you can create the Payment Method: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-and-reuse

[hallow thorn]

If the invoices stay there opened, is there any possibility that they are automatically billed to the customer?

[hallow thorn]

And, can you confirm that there is no field like void_at for invoices in order to plan their void?

(like an expiration)

[tepid moon]

👋 taking over for my colleague. Let me catch up.

[tepid moon]

sorry for the delay

[hallow thorn]

NP

[tepid moon]

I'm going to go back to the first message you sent

I have a couple of things to address there

For Subscriptions, i first create a stripe subscription , then i fetch the related payment_intent and it's client secret, finally i send the intent to the client from which the user can confirm the intent by providing a payment method.
in the case of trials instead of using the latest_invoice.payment_intent which will be null, you need to use pending_setup_intent

[hallow thorn]

Yes, that's what we do

[tepid moon]

ok perfect just wanted to make sure that's the case

what you can do to improve your process is to use the deferred intent creation flow

[hallow thorn]

What is that?

[tepid moon]

https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment-deferred?platform=web

the only difference in your case would be creating the Invoice/Subscription instead of creating a PaymentIntent

[hallow thorn]

After the payment intent confirmation, do stripe create an invoice?

[tepid moon]

no

you can implement the whole flow as shown in the doc I sent you, the only difference for you would be step 4 https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment-deferred?platform=web&type=payment#create-intent

in your case instead of creating a PaymentIntent you create an Invoice and send the Invoice's Payment Intent's client_secret to the front end

[hallow thorn]

So the difference with my current implementation is that i would create the invoice and obtain the intent after the user inserts in stripe elements the PM information, and before confirming the intent, right?

[tepid moon]

exactly

actually while confirming not before

[hallow thorn]

Ok, last question: is there any way to plan the void date of a invoice (like cancel_at for subscriptions?)

[tepid moon]

not really

[hallow thorn]

Sorry: not really or not at all?

[tepid moon]

I'm not sure what's the difference

if you want a simpler answer: no

[hallow thorn]

Ok, thankyou for your precious help

Have a nice day!