jamie_97274

[cedar cosmos]

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• jamie_97274, 4 days ago, 25 messages
• jamie_97274, 5 days ago, 48 messages

[tardy narwhal]

hi! yeah, that's just how it is, since iDEAL is not compatible with charge_automatically Invoices.

I know what you mean, you want to do a one-off on-session payment with the Customer paying the Invoice using iDEAL, but it just doesn't work unfortuantely I think.

[sick plume]

but I am not trying to setup a new payment method, simply paying one of the invoices for the subscription through a manual one-off payment with iDeal

[tardy narwhal]

yep, but each recurring Invoice the subscription generates will be collection_method:"charge_automatically" and not include ideal as a payment method type, hence the error you're getting.

[sick plume]

and the collection method of an invoice is probably not update-able

so there is no way for a customer to one-off pay an invoice that came through a subscription with ideal?

[tardy narwhal]

only if the Invoice is a draft (https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/update#update_invoice-collection_method); it's a draft for 1 hour after creation https://stripe.com/docs/billing/invoices/subscription#subscription-renewal

doesn't help here since you want to do the payment after the automated attempted failed(the Invoice will have already been finalized)

[sick plume]

yeah that doesn't work in my case, we want the customer to be able to pay it after it's failed, we don't know whether it was failed when it was in draft

[tardy narwhal]

you can pay with a card.

[sick plume]

practically nobody uses CC for one-off payments in Netherlands, we use iDeal

[tardy narwhal]

otherwise, if it must be iDEAL, I suppose you could do an entirely separate PaymentIntent, using iDEAL, and if that succeeds, mark the Invoice as paid with out_of_band:true https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/pay#pay_invoice-paid_out_of_band

[sick plume]

this would be perfectly possible if not for this vague limitation on paying a one-off invoice without it affecting future automatically charged invoices through subscriptions

That's my alternative, setting up another separate payment intent and then updating the relevant invoice

this is very annoying though, can you please double check this is the only other way? I have had several tickets in this chat that were not properly advised because iDeal worked slightly differently (i.e. trial periods for iDeal affecting coupons etc)

[tardy narwhal]

I don't know of any other way

[sick plume]

Okay I will have a look at separate payment intents, out_of_band is not really the correct method either, as the payment was done through stripe

it seems really odd that Stripe has no way to manually pay a single invoice from a subscription through iDeal when the subscription was setup with iDeal in the first place

[tardy narwhal]

I agree!