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kind seal
hello! which test card did you use specifically? can you share the last4?
mellow saddle
Hi Alex, it was 4000000000000077
I got it from https://docs.stripe.com/testing#available-balance
kind seal
gimme a while to take a look 👀
kind seal
so from what i see you have less than $100 in your account balance at the moment, but you're trying to transfer $100. Have you checked using https://docs.stripe.com/api/balance/balance_retrieve ?
mellow saddle
I have not, let me try that now
Ya it is showing as $0 right now, how can I add to the balance?
kind seal
can you paste the full output from when you retrieved the balance via the API in test mode
mellow saddle
Yup, just a moment
{
"object": "balance",
"available": [
{
"amount": 0,
"currency": "usd",
"source_types": {
"card": 0
}
}
],
"connect_reserved": [
{
"amount": 0,
"currency": "usd"
}
],
"livemode": false,
"pending": [
{
"amount": 7252,
"currency": "usd",
"source_types": {
"card": 7252
}
}
],
"refund_and_dispute_prefunding": [
{
"amount": 0,
"currency": "usd"
}
]
}
kind seal
you mentioned that you used the 0077 test card to make payment - logically using this test card to make payment should bypass the pending balance and go straight to the available balance
can you create a payment on your account using the 0077 test card?
mellow saddle
Sure, let me try that, just a few moments
Is this the correct place to do that?
I was going to do an autocharge invoice for $100
And if so, is there a specific date and CVC I'm supposed to use with the 0077 card?
kind seal
that works i guess. No specific date (just needs to be in the future) or CVC
dim girderBOT
kind seal
usually i just create a payment on https://dashboard.stripe.com/payments, but what you're doing is alright too
mellow saddle
I think that worked, let me try the balance command again, one moment
Ah that worked!
Just got the transfer test done as well
Thank you very much!
kind seal
i do want to mention though, that if you're using Transfers, you would ideally want to configure the source_transaction too
what you would want to do when creating the Transfer is to include the corresponding Charge id in the source_transaction parameter : https://stripe.com/docs/api/transfers/create#create_transfer-source_transaction
The main point to remember is that when using source_transaction, if the payment is still pending, then the transfer will pull the funds from the pending balance. If the payment is already available, then the transfer will pull the funds from the available balance.
if you don't specify the source_transaction, it'll always try to use the funds from your available balance and if the payment funds is not yet available, and you don't specify the source_transaction then you run into the problem of insufficient funds
it's covered in https://docs.stripe.com/connect/separate-charges-and-transfers?platform=web&ui=stripe-hosted#transfer-availability
cinder grail
Hi @mellow saddle I'm taking over this thread
mellow saddle
No worries, thanks Jack
cinder grail
You can get the charge ID from PaymentIntent's latest_charge
mellow saddle
Got it, thank you!
I really appreciate the help from the both of you, thank you again, I think I'm all set
cinder grail
Happy to help!