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violet monolithBOT Feb 20, 2024, 4:58 PM

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buoyant wave Feb 20, 2024, 5:05 PM

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corvus-email-testmode

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@gusty moss emails are not sent in Test mode by default so that's expected. In the Dashboard you explicitly click a button to "send the Invoice" which bypasses our limitations (And only to the same email address as your login to your Dashboard)

gusty moss Feb 20, 2024, 5:09 PM

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On that last note, I was able to send it to my personal email, from the dashboard, even though the account is under my work account.

I think we weren't able to use a do that though till we activated the Stripe account. Before that, we had to use the same email address as we were signed in under.

buoyant wave Feb 20, 2024, 5:10 PM

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yeah if your account is activated/verified you can manually send to a specific email address after a payment

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but overall when using the API the email(s) will not be sent in Test mode

gusty moss Feb 20, 2024, 5:11 PM

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@buoyant wave when you say by default, is there any way to bypass that behavior?

We want in this case to do a demo for a client (including automatically sending an invoice and then paying the invoice), but we don't want to actually charge anyone.

I'd go with just a meaningless dollar amount like charging a 3¢ invoice… but the numbers actually matter because we're also demoing some dashboards.

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Lastly @buoyant wave: If it says in the log that it was sent, is that a reliable indicator that if this were our live environment, it would have been sent?

(If so we can at least cite that in the demo.)

buoyant wave Feb 20, 2024, 5:15 PM

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I think you can create a Customer with email set to the same email as your login in the Dashboard and I think it would send the email in Test mode. I'd recommend trying that

gusty moss Feb 20, 2024, 5:32 PM

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I just now tried. Created a customer account programmatically, then went into the dashboard and changed its email to my work email (under which I'd logged in), then programmatically created, finalized, and sent an invoice for that customer. Alas, no email came through!

buoyant wave Feb 20, 2024, 5:34 PM

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Then unfortunately this just doesn't work. Emails in Test mode are abused quite a lot so they are mostly blocked by default. Sorry I don't have a better solution 😦

gusty moss Feb 20, 2024, 5:35 PM

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Thank you very much then @buoyant wave! That's still helpful, to know what the limits of our situation are.

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