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cyan remnantBOT Mar 11, 2024, 11:29 PM

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meager elmBOT Mar 11, 2024, 11:29 PM

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mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:30 PM

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You need to expand the latest invoice

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:30 PM

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sub = stripe.Subscription.create(
      customer=customer_id,
                items=[
                    {
                        'price': price_id
                    }
                ],
                payment_behavior='allow_incomplete' if is_setup else 'default_incomplete',
                payment_settings={'save_default_payment_method': 'on_subscription'},
                expand=['latest_invoice.payment_intent', 'pending_setup_intent'],
                collection_method='charge_automatically' if is_setup else 'send_invoice',
                days_until_due=0
            )

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Here is better formatted., Latest invoice is expanded

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:30 PM

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Okay, that still works for me and I'm using stripe-python

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:31 PM

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Is it OK to paste the return object here?

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:31 PM

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If you

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could just paste the Subscription ID that would be better

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:31 PM

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This code worked perfectly about 2 months ago, I came back to the propject today and it's not working..

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And yeah sure

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:31 PM

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I can look it up and it won't clutter things

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:31 PM

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mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:31 PM

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Thanks, taking a look

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:31 PM

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Thanks! Appreciate it

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:32 PM

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Okay, I'm taking a look at the request this created: https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_OrYSbw1hlcjUHL and I see the latest_invoice has a full object instead of just an ID

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Did your version of stripe-python change?

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It looks like you're on 7.11.0 in this request

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:34 PM

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I don't think so, I reinstalled from my requirements created the last time I was on this project

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what v of stripe-python are you using?

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:35 PM

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I have multiple. Some integrations are on 8.0.0, a few are on 5.4.0

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:37 PM

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Actually it turns out that latest_invoice is indeed returning an object, my parser was just messing up when I was viewing it, but latest_invoice.payment_intent is null

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previously it would contain a client secret

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:37 PM

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Ah, yeah payment_intent: null,

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:38 PM

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Did something change with Stripe recently?

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Because I didn't require to use days_until_due either, but now I do

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:39 PM

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Were you always using collection_method: "send_invoice"?

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:40 PM

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Yep

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Basically IIRC, collection_method is set to send_invoice if the customers stripe account hasn't been fully setup with a card linked. So I create the invoice, and the client adds their card and then charges for the invoice

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:41 PM

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The default API version for this account is 2022-11-15 but the API version on this request is 2023-10-16

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The Customer doesn't have a Stripe account. Unless this is a Connected Account.

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But I think you mean the Customer hasn't set up a default payment method

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:42 PM

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My bad, I mean a customer object

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:42 PM

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Okay, cool. Just want to make sure we're on the same page

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Okay yes I confirmed my integration does the same thing ( using stripe-python v 5.4.0 and API version 2020-08-27)

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collection_method: "send_invoice" returns a null as a Payment Intent.

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The Hosted Invoice Page doesn't create a Payment Intent until the user confirms the payment intent.

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:49 PM

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hmm I need a client secret through to process the payment. Everything is self hosted on my site - no stripe invoice page

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:50 PM

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Ummm....no you don't?

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:50 PM

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How come you're getting the same result as me on older version of package & api?

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:50 PM

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Collecting payment yourself and using send_invoice are mutually exclusive

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:50 PM

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previously it would return a client secret

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yeah but if the payment requires 3ds then it has to be done on the client which requires a secret

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:51 PM

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That has always been the case since I started at Stripe over 2 years ago

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I think what would make more sense (based on how you described using the send_invoice option) woul be that you should try creating your Subscriptions with collection_method: "charge_automatically" and for those Customers who don't have a saved Payment method you should include payment_settings.save_default_payment_method:"on_subscription"

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:53 PM

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I'm confused as to why everything worked couple months back, but not now. And I've checked the changelog and see no mention of this

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:54 PM

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Do you have an example of the previous flow? The tought part is "a couple months" is past our retention time for API requests but I could look at some objects

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But, for the flow I'm describing, you would set this property: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-payment_settings-save_default_payment_method

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:55 PM

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I routinely nuke my test data so I'm not sure if it would still be visible?

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:55 PM

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And when the Customer succeeds in their first payment it will automatically save that paymemt method as their default

tranquil cape Mar 11, 2024, 11:57 PM

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The flow is this:

Users signs up
Then goes to setup screen
They choose pay as you go, or monthly
If payg, their card details is attached to the customer object
if monthly, I create an invoice, and process the payment and save their card details to the customer object.

I had quite a bit of trouble with this last time and spent a fair amount of time with someone from Stripe going through this, and this turned out to be the best option

mystic badger Mar 11, 2024, 11:57 PM

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I routinely nuke my test data so I'm not sure if it would still be visible?
Without examples it's really hard to dig further into this

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That makes sense but I don't see a need for send_invoice in any of that

meager elmBOT Mar 12, 2024, 12:00 AM

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tranquil cape Mar 12, 2024, 12:00 AM

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I believe its because the customer object doesn't have a card attached. I think the sub is created, the secret is passed back to the client, and then the client processes the payment with the sub ID

earnest vortex Mar 12, 2024, 12:00 AM

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still no reason to use send_invoice for any of that

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smokey_subscription-collectionmethod

tranquil cape Mar 12, 2024, 12:01 AM

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ok can you tell me where I'm going wrong in my logic?

earnest vortex Mar 12, 2024, 12:02 AM

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Me and @mystic badger don't understand why you are using send_invoice. There's really no reason to do this at all. This is for when you want us to email the end customer to pay later, often via bank transfers, like for B2B

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What you described above you can totally use charge_automatically

tranquil cape Mar 12, 2024, 12:06 AM

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Yeah I guess you're right. using send_invoice was actually the recommendation of someone from this support group about 6 months ago. I remember coming here for support when i couldn't figure out how to achieve what I wanted...

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I guess I'll have to try figure out how to get everything to work with charge_automatically

earnest vortex Mar 12, 2024, 12:07 AM

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What you likely are missing is payment_behavior: 'default_incomplete' on Subscription creation. That will finalize the Invoice, give you a PaymentIntent and then you can use it to render PaymentElement client-side for example

tranquil cape Mar 12, 2024, 12:08 AM

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well default_incomplete is already there on initial subscription creation

earnest vortex Mar 12, 2024, 12:09 AM

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then no reason to use send_invoice at all in that case (you were explicitly saying you handle having a save card or not differently)

tranquil cape Mar 12, 2024, 12:14 AM

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I think you're totally right. I've removed send_invoice and everything seems to be working as I'd expect.... I really have no idea why I was using send_invoice

earnest vortex Mar 12, 2024, 12:18 AM

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yeah likely a misunderstanding!

tranquil cape Mar 12, 2024, 12:19 AM

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Thanks a lot for the help, I really appreciate it. And you too @mystic badger. You spent the best part of 35 minutes helping me with this.

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