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shrewd narwhal
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What do you mean

slow plover
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i previously asked how to get the payment method and was told i could get it from the payment intent.

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i generated an invoice for a user but didn't pay for it

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i then used the payment intent to get the payment method to see what would happen

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and i got the payment method back that is the customer's default payment method. is that intended behavior?

shrewd narwhal
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Wait how does the invoice have a pm attached if you didn't pay it?

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Can you share the invoice id so I can see what you're talking about?

slow plover
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this is the invoice: in_1OKjwCELLwkYyxmwFGJQokCt

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on that invoice i used the payment intent and fetch the payment method

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this is in the developer not production

shrewd narwhal
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Oh it's because you pass a customer with a default payment method set

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That makes sense

slow plover
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ah ok. i just wanted to make sure that was expected behavior

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while i have you hear, can i ask a totally different stripe question 👀

shrewd narwhal
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Yeah sure

slow plover
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so i want to pass metadata to the line items. i can do that just fine, but not for a subscription line item. this is how i'm creating the invoice:

const subscriptionSchedule = await stripe.subscriptionSchedules.create({
      customer: stripeCustomerId,
      start_date: "now",
      end_behavior: "release",
      expand: ["subscription"],
      phases: [
        {
          collection_method: "charge_automatically",
          items: [
            {
              price: membershipPrice.stripePriceId
            }
          ],
          metadata: invoiceItemMetadata
        }
      ]
    });
    const subscription = subscriptionSchedule.subscription as Stripe.Subscription;
    const latestInvoiceId = subscription.latest_invoice as string;
shrewd narwhal
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Is there a particular reason you need a subscription schedule?

slow plover
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yes. i originally asked if it was possible to create an invoice with line items where i don't have a stripePrice/stripeProduct. in other words i just pass the currency for the line items.

i was told that wasn't possible, and to instead use a subscription schedule and that will allow me to do that

shrewd narwhal
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Hm who told you to do that

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Do you need a subscription?

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This is doable with plain invoices...

slow plover
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hmm let me see if i can find the message in discord, maybe i was wrong
the schedule makes it harder

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and yes i do support subscriptions

shrewd narwhal
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Ok just tell me what you're trying to do. Create one-off invoices or create a subscription?

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Because the first example was a one-off invoice

slow plover
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oh yes.
i also need to support a payment intent that has a mixture of a subscription and also different types of items

shrewd narwhal
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That doesn't make sense

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Payment Intents are a completely separate concept

slow plover
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so for the payment sheet. i need to send a payment intent
whichever way i can get a user to purchase a subscription and other items in the same transaction. i was told that i could use invoices for that

shrewd narwhal
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Oh

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You could add invoice items for the one-off items and those would get pulled into the subscription's invoice

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You shouldn't need a subscription schedule unless there's a valid reason

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You can pass raw amounts to both invoice items and subscriptions

slow plover
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ah ok! i found my notes:
so the original thing that i was trying to do was create an invoice with a subscription and some line items in one api call.

i did that by creating a subscription (not with a schedule) and then i got the invoice of that and tried to add line items to it.
when i did that i got an error this invoice is no longer editable

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if there is a way to create an invoice with a subscription and line items can you please share. i would really appreciate the guidance

shrewd narwhal
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Yeah you'd need to create the invoice items first (before the subscription) so they're pulled in when that first subscription invoice is created

slow plover
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just to make sure i follow:

  • i create the invoice items first
  • i then create the subscription

and that automatically adds the line items to the subscription invoice?

shrewd narwhal
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Yeah

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If you pass the same customer id

slow plover
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i'll do some testing! thank you for helping out