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hearty flaxBOT Oct 12, 2023, 9:15 PM

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night quest Oct 12, 2023, 9:16 PM

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HI 👋

How are you creating your subscriptions?

buoyant flume Oct 12, 2023, 9:16 PM

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We give them a stripe payment page to subscribe for the free trial (checkout session)

night quest Oct 12, 2023, 9:20 PM

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Okay so I was asking how you are creating subscriptions and, in this case, you are using a Checkout Session. I don't think we allow for an pre-authorization with Susbcriptions. The configurations necessary on the Payment Intent are not available.

buoyant flume Oct 12, 2023, 9:21 PM

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I've seen other businesses that use stripe and do preauthorizations for subscriptions

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Is there any way we could do it?

night quest Oct 12, 2023, 9:23 PM

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I'm not aware of any. The only way I know of to create pre-auths is directly using Payment Intents
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/place-a-hold-on-a-payment-method#authorize-only

And creating pre-auths and canceling the payment intent can lead to more disputes and rejections from card issuers

buoyant flume Oct 12, 2023, 9:23 PM

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For reference here is another company. They do preauthorizations but they don't use checkout sessions

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Ok, no problem

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Thank you

night quest Oct 12, 2023, 9:24 PM

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Right. They are probably using this guide https://stripe.com/docs/payments/place-a-hold-on-a-payment-method and doing something on their end to either track the trial themselves or connect the initial payment intent to the subscription in their own integration

buoyant flume Oct 12, 2023, 9:25 PM

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Yeah, that's exactly that I thought

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Thank you so much for the help

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