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pine sphinxBOT Aug 22, 2023, 9:09 PM

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versed gate Aug 22, 2023, 9:09 PM

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Hello! Can you clarify that last part? Auto update what?

fallow swift Aug 22, 2023, 9:11 PM

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So within my database, each user can have multiple organizations (projects/companies). Each user has a one to many relationship with companies, and each company needs a different payment method

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When a user adds a company to their account, I generate a new customer object within Stripe to correspond to that company, so that the single user can split up their payment invoices across each organization

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The issue I'm having is I'd like for the default payment method when the user inits the company to be the payment method on their existing account

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can think of it like AWS, you can belong to multiple organizations but each org has its own billing page

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each time you generate a new organization the payment method for it should default to the current payment method on the org

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anyway I have all the business logic working on my end, the only issue I have is on the POST request to update the default payment method is failing because I am trying to put a payment method from one "customer" onto another "customer" object within Stripe, despite both customer objects actually being the same person (the emails match even)

versed gate Aug 22, 2023, 9:14 PM

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Yeah, you can't do that. Payment Methods can't be shared across Customers. Once a Payment Method is attached to one Customer that's the only Customer you can use it with.

fallow swift Aug 22, 2023, 9:15 PM

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is there some way to "clone" a customer?

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i.e. preserve the payment method on a new customer object so that they dont have to enter it again

versed gate Aug 22, 2023, 9:16 PM

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You can do that kind of thing with Connect across accounts, but it sounds like you want to do this on a single Stripe account, correct?

fallow swift Aug 22, 2023, 9:17 PM

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ya

versed gate Aug 22, 2023, 9:18 PM

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Yeah, there's no way to do that.

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A Customer in Stripe is designed to represent the entity paying you. It might be a single person, a company, an organization, etc.

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A single entity paying you is not intended to be represented by multiple Customer objects.

fallow swift Aug 22, 2023, 9:19 PM

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got it

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so the thing is they need to be separate "customer" objects because each org can involve separate team members. can think of it like AWS

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so I believe multiple customer object is the correct and only way to structure this.

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and each time a user on my end makes a new org account they will just have to enter payment info again

versed gate Aug 22, 2023, 9:22 PM

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I mean... it's not the only way. You can still use a single Customer in Stripe with multiple Payment Methods attached to it and handle the separate team member logic on your end.

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