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• szy_customer-pmmanagement, 1 day ago, 16 messages

[junior harbor]

I'd like to add what has alrady been suggested to me by 'koopajah'. It's a good help but i need a little bit more guidance:
"So right now you have to build your own UI where you can show them their list of saved PaymentMethods using the https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_methods/customer_list API. You can mark the default based on the Customer's invoice_settings[default_payment_method] and build some UI to change the default to a new one (where your code calls the https://docs.stripe.com/api/customers/update to change that value)
And then you can have a button like "add new payment method" that then uses the SetupIntents API with the PaymentElement client-side to collect the details based on https://docs.stripe.com/payments/save-and-reuse"

I have a question regarding the default payment method.

How do I "mark" it default? After payment through stripe checkout the default payment is not set and my customer info for invoice_settings returns:

invoice_settings: {
    custom_fields: null,
    default_payment_method: null,
    footer: null,
    rendering_options: null
},

[grim sky]

Hello
It is possible that the default payment method was set on the subscription instead.

Have you tried retreiving the subscription object?

[junior harbor]

Yes, this seems to work 🙂

const paymentMethodforStripeCustomer =
    await stripe.customers.retrievePaymentMethod(
      customeId,
      defaultPaymentMethodId
    );

Can you leave it open for another day if i run into more issues?

[grim sky]

Idle threads are closed automatically. However, you can open a new thread instead

[junior harbor]

okay, thanks for help

[grim sky]

Hey @junior harbor
I looked through your code too fast earlier and missed that you're NOT retrieving a subscription but just a payment method using its ID?

That feels wrong, see following for retrieving a subscription: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/retrieve

[junior harbor]

Hey, thanks for checking in on this

i tried this before (retrieving the subscription) but it returns this:
default_payment_method: 'pm_1P3...,

so knowing the customer's id and subscription's id i thought it would be the best way. would you suggest something else?

[grim sky]

I mean it's fine to retrieve the payment method separately. However, the subscription will by default use the payment method that's set as default on subscription.default_payment_method

So if you're trying to update that then you'll need to update the subscription object instead
(in this case just setting customer.invoice_settings.default_payment_method won't work)

[junior harbor]

sorry, im at the stage of trying to display the default payment in the ui for the user, not updating yet.

just like: Card linked: VISA **** 4242

[grim sky]

Ah okay okay! Just wanted to make sure I didn't create more confusion 🙂 Sounds good

sorry for the false alarm

[junior harbor]

cool, appreciate it anyhow

[grim sky]

👍

[junior harbor]

Is there a way to avoid calling stripe api twice? I feel like this could be done in one call to stripe...

  // goal: retrieve payment method for stripe customer from stripe
  // 1. get subscription id from supabase
  const subscriptionId = subscription?.id;

  // 2. get customer id from stripe by looking up subscription in stripe
  const existingSubscription =
    await stripe.subscriptions.retrieve(subscriptionId);
  const customerId = existingSubscription.customer;

  // 3. get default payment method id and retrieve payment method from stripe
  const defaultPaymentMethodId = existingSubscription.default_payment_method;
  const paymentMethodforStripeCustomer =
    await stripe.customers.retrievePaymentMethod(
      customerId,
      defaultPaymentMethodId
    );

  console.log('paymentMethodforStripeCustomer', paymentMethodforStripeCustomer);

[quiet palm]

You can expand fields when you retrieve them. If you expand customer.invoice_settings.default_payment_method when retrieving the subscription you should be able to get all of this relevant info https://docs.stripe.com/api/expanding_objects