evan_09475

[jagged pier]

Hello! That's expected behavior - when a Subscription is trialing there's no payment due, so there's no reason to create a Payment Intent.

Instead, you can grab a Setup Intent from pending_setup_intent on the Subscription and use it to collect pamynet details

[broken jackal]

this is the object am passing to the create method

  let subscriptionData = {
      customer: paymentObj.providerCustomer.stripeCustomerId,
      items: [
        {
          plan: stripePlanId
        }
      ],
      payment_behavior: 'default_incomplete',
      payment_settings: { save_default_payment_method: 'on_subscription' },
      expand: ['latest_invoice.payment_intent']
    }

I need to change to this I beleieve

  expand: ['latest_invoice.payment_intent', 'pending_setup_intent'],

[jagged pier]

Yup! That way you'll get the full Setup Intent expanded and can get the client secret

[broken jackal]

the fullset up payment intent is having status: 'requires_payment_method', although I have already passed paymentMethod when creating the subscription and the customer

Is that normal?

[prime rock]

Hi can you share the payment intent id?

[broken jackal]

seti_1No9nFD9sYh65PYtvWYuroxc

[prime rock]

Oh that's a setupintent

Also payment method was never provided. That's why

That setupintent is to collect payment method data for the subscription. But, if your customer already has a default payment method attached, then you shouldn't need to do that step

Their default pm will be charged once the trial is over

Although the customer you provided doesn't have a default payment method set, so the first subscription payment will fail

[broken jackal]

but am passing the paymentMethod when I create the customer

    const response = await this.stripeGateway.customers.create({
      email: user.email,
      name: paymentObj.payeeName,
      payment_method: paymentObj.paymentMethod,
      metadata: { zendyUserId: user.id, zendy: 'Zendy OA' }
    })

[prime rock]

Yeah that doesn't matter though. Subscriptions only charge the payment method set as default

You can have many payment methods on a customer

So you need to set a default

[broken jackal]

Okay so you mean when I create a customer I have to pass

invoice_settings : {
default_payment_method: id of the payment method
}

[prime rock]

Yeah that would be how to set the pm as the customer's default

There's actually a couple places you can set the pm as the default though. The above is for setting it at the customer level, but you can also set it at the subscription level here: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-default_payment_method

[broken jackal]

They will behave the same right?

[prime rock]

Yes, but if it's set on the subscription level, that overrides/takes precedence over the one set on the customer

[broken jackal]

When Passing the default_payment_method to the customer the status of the setup payment intent is status: 'requires_confirmation'

that is the id of the set up intent
seti_1NoAFQD9sYh65PYtDVghb6mr

[prime rock]

Yeah that's unrelated

The point of that setupintent is to give you an opportunity to collect new payment details

Which you don't do

Every sub with a trial creates a setupintent

[broken jackal]

the code earlier I provided was confirming the paymentIntent.

In my case, when I do a trial subscription, Do I have to confirm the setupIntent

[prime rock]

No not necessary