#lil-nasty_best-practices
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- lil-nasty_best-practices, 7 hours ago, 16 messages
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worldly cipher
I would assume that invoice.created is a decent date to show, but if there's a bank payment or a payment fails and is retried days later and succeeds then, I would think that invoice.created would be the wrong date to display
brisk wind
You would need to look at the underlying Payment Intent that represents the actual payment of the Invoice. There's also invoice.paid which sounds more like what you're looking for
worldly cipher
Invoice.paid is a boolean, I need a timestamp
brisk wind
No I mean the webhook event invoice.paid
worldly cipher
When a user fails a payment we want to retrieve the invoice for the failed method, display it's details and use the client_secret from the payment_intent to allow the user to retry the payment
We currently fetch the user's invoices and display them to show payment history, and if a payment failed we have a button that opens a modal with a payment element that uses the client secret to reattempt the payment with a different payment method, we need to display the date of all invoices
brisk wind
Then you need to get the underlying Charge object from the Invoice's Payment Intent latest_charge attribute (https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/object#payment_intent_object-latest_charge). The created date on the Charge object will actually represent the exact time that the payment succeeded or failed: https://docs.stripe.com/api/charges/object#charge_object-created
worldly cipher
I've been using that date, but on the invoice that failed, the latest_charge field is null
I expand it and know that it's getting properly returned on other invoices
the payment_intent.status = requires_confirmation
brisk wind
If you're trying to show failed payment attempts, then you need to be listening for webhooks and storing the payload from events like payment_intent.payment_failed or invoice.payment_failed
worldly cipher
Why? Don't both of those just send the invoice or payment_intent that failed? Which would be the same object that I get back when I request invoices from Stripe?
brisk wind
Yes, but the last_payment_error may change if they try to pay again, so you will only have that specific state of the last_payment_error for that specific payment attempt via the webhook (or if you happen to retrieve the Payment Intent before the next payment intent update that happens): https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/object#payment_intent_object-last_payment_error
worldly cipher
We retrieve the invoices directly from stripe and pass them on to the customer when they request them so I don't have a great deal of worry about them not being synced. That being said how does the webhook event give me a better date to show the user for the invoice itself?
brisk wind
What are you actually trying to get? You were talking about payment failures, now you're talking about "a better date to show the user for the invoice itself". What date do you want to show? The date it was created? The date a payment failed on it? The date a payment succeeded on it? The due date (applicable to only subscriptions)?
worldly cipher
I suppose if the payment failed, the date the payment was attempted, and if it succeeded then the date it succeeded
brisk wind
We went over that, no? You should have an explanation in this thread for both those situations I believe
worldly cipher
For paid you suggest the time when we get the invoice.paid event? And for failed we would just show the invoice.created date?
NVM, I'll do latest_charge.created for paid and invoice.created for failed
Thanks
brisk wind
invoice.created won't actually show the time of the payment failure, but if that works for your use-case then by all means
brisk wind
Not without using webhooks to get the last_payment_error off the Payment Intent