dr_ironbeard | Stripe Developers | Page 1

amber emberBOT Jan 23, 2024, 7:18 PM

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twilit lynx Jan 23, 2024, 7:18 PM

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Hello! What help do you need exactly?

normal furnace Jan 23, 2024, 7:18 PM

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Customer is cus_PQfLhkzoFExEeI

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So I created a customer locally in order to start a subscription

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but never got the proper stripe ID for the customer during the initial transaction

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Now that the Customer, Subscription, and Invoice have been properly created..what do I need to do to activate their subscription?

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Usually in the checkout process I get a client_secret and pass it to the payment element, but I can't do that right now

twilit lynx Jan 23, 2024, 7:21 PM

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Why can't you do that? What's preventing you from fetching the client secret?

normal furnace Jan 23, 2024, 7:22 PM

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Uhm, I guess I can I've just never done it manually.. let's see.

twilit lynx Jan 23, 2024, 7:22 PM

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Subscriptions generate Invoices, and Invoices create Payment Intents, and those Payment Intents have client secrets. You can fetch all of those from the API.

normal furnace Jan 23, 2024, 7:23 PM

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Well, wait.. I can get the client secret. But I usually finalize the transacvtion by passing that to the front end and using Stripe Elements.

twilit lynx Jan 23, 2024, 7:23 PM

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If there's a specific issue you're hitting let me know and I'd be happy to help further!

normal furnace Jan 23, 2024, 7:23 PM

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So how do I finalize/pay the invoice manually?

twilit lynx Jan 23, 2024, 7:23 PM

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You do it the same way, you pass it to the frontend and confirm using Stripe Elements.

normal furnace Jan 23, 2024, 7:24 PM

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But I'm not the customer...I can't log into my website as them and I don't know their card number to fill out in Elements

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Usually the client secret would have been passed to the front end, but that process was interupted by a server issue.

twilit lynx Jan 23, 2024, 7:24 PM

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So the Customer never provided their payment details?

normal furnace Jan 23, 2024, 7:25 PM

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They did. They have a PaymentMethod on file

twilit lynx Jan 23, 2024, 7:25 PM

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Ah, okay, so you want to attempt to pay this in an off-session transaction?

normal furnace Jan 23, 2024, 7:25 PM

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Yeah, I think so.

actually, I just realzied that the PaymentMethod might not have been created on Stripe's servers

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Oh wait, their payment method is pm_1OboE2CoTIfwbn28Ll4hNsvR

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It might not be attached to the customer though

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cus_PQfLhkzoFExEeI

twilit lynx Jan 23, 2024, 7:27 PM

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Yeah, that one isn't attached to a Customer.

normal furnace Jan 23, 2024, 7:29 PM

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Hmm, it should be attached to cus_PQfLhkzoFExEeI, I think that process got interupted when the server crashed

twilit lynx Jan 23, 2024, 7:29 PM

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You can try to attach the Payment Method to the Customer directly, which is normally not recommended (you should be using a Setup Intent while the Customer is on-session): https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_methods/attach

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If that succeeds you can then attempt to pay the Invoice off-session by setting off_session to true: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/pay

normal furnace Jan 23, 2024, 7:30 PM

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Okay, I think I got the PM attached

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Can I use the Stripe dashboard to pay this invoice since the PM is now attached to the user?

twilit lynx Jan 23, 2024, 7:39 PM

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I don't know, we're focused on developer questions here, we're not Dashboard experts.

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I recommend you attempt to pay it using the API I linked above with off_session set.

normal furnace Jan 23, 2024, 7:41 PM

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I think that worked, thanks!

twilit lynx Jan 23, 2024, 7:43 PM

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Happy to help!

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