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trim questBOT Oct 11, 2023, 5:17 PM

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lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 5:17 PM

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@zinc estuary We don't reopen threads but if you have a clear summary and clear follow up question I'm happy to help

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 5:18 PM

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yeah we were just in the middle of a discussion and there's a bit of context. #dev-help message

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The answer to his question is: No. We don't specify so are using automatic payment methods.

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 5:21 PM

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Discord is busy, we help in real time numerous developers and can't really keep track of past conversations. Please clearly explain the issue all summarized with your question(s) and I will try to help

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 5:25 PM

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Gotcha. Ok so I'm having an issue with combining the deferred intent flow with creating one-off invoices. Here is my current flow:

Initialize stripe elements
When user submits form, request client secret from server
Server generates invoice and invoice item and finalizes invoice
Server returns client secret from Payment Intent on the finalized invoice
Client runs confirmPayment with the client secret to process the payment.

Running this flow, I'm getting the following error message:
Payment details were collected through Stripe Elements using automatic payment methods and cannot be confirmed with a Payment Intent configured with payment_method_types.
However, I'm not setting payment method types explicitly so I don't know why it's saying that the Payment Intent is configured with payment_method_types.

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 5:27 PM

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How do you do step #1? Did you pass mode: 'subscription' as documented here: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment-deferred?platform=web&type=subscription#add-the-payment-element-to-your-checkout-page?
Subscriptions and Invoices don't support "automatic payment methods" yet

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zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 5:28 PM

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that's very confusing because we've been using this flow for Subscriptions for some time. I'm just now repurposing the same flow for one off purchases. This is how I'm creating the elements:

const elements = stripe.elements({
    mode: 'payment',
    amount: planAmount,
    currency: 'usd',
    appearance,
})

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 5:29 PM

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yeah then switch to subscription and it should work

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 5:29 PM

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ok so I was on subscription originally and got this error instead:

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but I don't see where I can specify a value for setup_future_usage when creating an invoice

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 5:31 PM

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Sorry I'm confused, are you passing setup_future_usage on Elements init? Or no?

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 5:31 PM

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I am not

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this is how I create the elements:

    mode: 'subscription',
    amount: planAmount,
    currency: 'usd',
    appearance,
})```

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 5:34 PM

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Okay I asked my team and it's apparently just totally unsupported which is... surreal if you ask me

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 5:34 PM

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I've never passed that property to anything so you can see where my confusion about that error comes from haha

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oh. wow lol

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 5:34 PM

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basically you have to pass payment_method_types explicitly in payment mode

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 5:35 PM

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ok so I can't use a subscription mode for one-off payments (that makes sense) but in order to do payment mode I have to explicitly specify payment method types. That's annoying, but also clear enough so I can give that a try.

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 5:36 PM

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it's only because you use one-time invoices + that defer flow (which is really uncommon honestly)

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 5:37 PM

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fascinating. I wasn't the developer who setup the defer flow originally, but from what it sounded like it seems like the defer flow in general is uncommon?

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Is there something less common about the defer flow + one-time invoices? Just trying to figure out if we should be using a different flow for one-time invoices.

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 5:41 PM

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the defer flow is only a few months old, not our default integration path (none of our quickstart guide use it) so it's less common. And defer + one-time Invoice is even rarer that's all.
We should fix it, just will take some time

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 5:42 PM

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Cool cool cool. Appreciate the insight. Last question: Can you point me to the documentation that lists the possible payment method type strings? The property is unfortunately just typed as string[] and I can't find the valid options anywhere 😢

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ohhh found it in a different type file!

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 5:44 PM

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_methods/object#payment_method_object-type

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 5:44 PM

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ah but that's even better. Thanks for all your help!

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 5:45 PM

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sure thing! Going to push on the product teams to fix this glaring annoyance too :p

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 5:46 PM

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haha appreciate it!

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ok sorry I got a followup before this thread closes... I started looking at doing your normal payment flow (not the defer flow) and I'm not seeing how it would be possible to follow that flow if one wanted to use a specific Price instead of specifying an Amount. Payment Intents don't allow attaching a PriceID so I've gone the approach of creating an invoice, adding an invoice item, and then finalizing the invoice. However, the invoice item create function REQUIRES a customer which wouldn't be available at the time of payment intent creation in the normal payment flow.

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 6:01 PM

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Yeah Invoicing requires a Customer, no way around it. Really if it were me I'd just set the right amount on a one-time PaymentIntent. I wouldn't use Price(s) at all

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 6:02 PM

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yeah it seems like that's the direction the docs push you. But then do you lose any ability to see who's buying which products?

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 6:03 PM

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Yep you basically build all of this yourself (which I absolutely would in this case, I'd never use Invoicing for this personally)

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 6:03 PM

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sorry when you say "build all" do you mean build all of the reporting?

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 6:03 PM

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yes

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 6:03 PM

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jesus

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ok final (probably) question: is it impossible to accept apple/google payments when specifying the payment_method_type?

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those aren't listed in the available types

lyric surge Oct 11, 2023, 6:16 PM

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those work with card so it will just work

zinc estuary Oct 11, 2023, 6:22 PM

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oh fantastic

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