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viral ridgeBOT Oct 27, 2023, 6:26 PM

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• edgar-elements-defaultvalues, 1 day ago, 6 messages
• edgarsantiago93, 1 day ago, 8 messages

gusty fossil Oct 27, 2023, 6:28 PM

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Hello! Can you give me some more details here - I'm not fully understanding why you need to place a hold

hidden comet Oct 27, 2023, 6:30 PM

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yes, ofc, so currently when free, we charge the card 1 usd and immediately return it to the user, just to double confirm that the card is valid (and has at least 1 usd) so we were wondering if we could optimize this by changing our inital price from x amount to 1 usd , do the refund on the initial charge but not cancel the subscription

gusty fossil Oct 27, 2023, 6:35 PM

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In general you really shouldn't be doing your own $1 auths - you can get in trouble with card networks for doing that

hidden comet Oct 27, 2023, 6:36 PM

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i see! we are removing that actually, but wanted to check on the subscription thing

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or is there a way of doing the 1 usd charge with stripe

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like oficially

gusty fossil Oct 27, 2023, 6:39 PM

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The general way of doing this is to rely on Setup Intents and Stripe will use logic on our end to know if/when an auth to the card network is required.

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But going back to your original question

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Is your goal to charge for the one-off price and the subscription price at the same time?

viral ridgeBOT Oct 27, 2023, 6:46 PM

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hidden comet Oct 27, 2023, 6:51 PM

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yes, so wed like to charge the one off as 1 usd and then potentially return that to the user but without canceling the subscription

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because the charge woudl be free

gusty fossil Oct 27, 2023, 6:52 PM

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Ah, so the one-off charge you were mentioning was just for the auth? Do you even need to do that anymore if you're doing the subscription?

hidden comet Oct 27, 2023, 6:55 PM

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wed do the auth charge only if the user has free initial pricing, but the recurring will always be 30 usd

gusty fossil Oct 27, 2023, 6:57 PM

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Gotcha - really you shouldn't be doing the additional $1 auth at all, but if you still insist on doing it you should be able to grab the intent ID tied to the first payment and do a partial refund

hidden comet Oct 27, 2023, 7:03 PM

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got it, thnk you! i think well go ahead and remove the auth charge and just stick with normal subscritions

#edgarsantiago93