b33f_paymentmethod-retrieve

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• b33fb0n3_api, 23 hours ago, 11 messages

[flint path]

@spiral token hello! I don't really get what you mean "get the payment method data"

If you have the PaymentMethod id you can use https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_methods/retrieve which only requires that pm_123

You can ignore the description, it's confusingly worded but it works

[spiral token]

if I take a look at my customer object I see the defaultPaymentMethod: (see attachement), but I can't see the data to it like which brand, which type, which last4, ...

[flint path]

Okay but in that case you already have the Customer id so the API method you were looking at that needs the pm_123 and the cus_123 works for you I think

Are you asking about retrieving all the details while retrieving a Customer?

b33f_paymentmethod-retrieve

[spiral token]

For me I looking for this:

Input: cus_12345...

Output:
Default Paymentmethod:

brand: "visa",
last4: "4242",
...

And if there is no default paymentmethod, then null or {} or whatever

[flint path]

Ah that last bit is what was missing

What you want in that case is our Expand feature documented here: https://stripe.com/docs/expand
It lets you retrieve a given API resource/object and also get related objects at the same time. So for example you retrieve the Customer itself and instead of seeing that default_payment_method: 'pm_123' you can get the full PaymentMethod object at the same time.

I recommend watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Vj_CEWyQc which someone on my team published to explain the concept in details

[spiral token]

it seems like the default_payment_method property is unexpandable 🤔

Can I somewhere see what kind of options I am allowed to pass in?

[flint path]

https://docs.stripe.com/api/customers/object#customer_object-invoice_settings-default_payment_method shows that it's expandable

you have to pass the full path of the property so invoice_settings.default_payment_method

[spiral token]

Ah that worked, thanks! ❤️