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rustic meadow
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hi there!

desert snow
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hello!

rustic meadow
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no, a Checkout Session can only create brand new Subscriptions.

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but why whould you need this? to exit an existing Subscription?

desert snow
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no, we want to give users a payment page when they want to go pay for a trial

rustic meadow
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then why not use a Checkout Session to create a new Subscription?

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I'm not sure I understand your use case.

desert snow
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so a trial creates a subscription object in the backend, and we want to add payment details to that trial so that it becomes a paid subscription rather than a whole new subscription

rustic meadow
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so your goal is to add a payment method to a Subscription that is active with a trial?

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desert snow
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Yea that's our current solution

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but what we want is a link to the payment page you get when you do a subscription - is that possible?

rustic meadow
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I don't undertsand your question. if you use the customer portal, users will be able to add a payment method to their subscription.

desert snow
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I know that it works, but we want to reduce the friction since customer portal has a lot showing there

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we want them to land directly on the payment page for subscriptions

rustic meadow
desert snow
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how is it possible with this?

glass sonnet
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Hi, stepping in and catching up

desert snow
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Hello

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Let me know if you need me to clarify anything

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also in a work call, don't clsoe the thread

glass sonnet
desert snow
glass sonnet
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const session = await stripe.billingPortal.sessions.create({
customer: '{{CUSTOMER_ID}}',
return_url: 'https://example.com/account/overview',
flow_data: {
type: 'payment_method_update',
},
});

desert snow
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by doing this, the customer will only be shown the payment page and nothing else?

desert snow
glass sonnet
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Yes, that is correct. I highly recommend that you test this using your test api key and play around a bit.

desert snow
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what about the other question i asked?

glass sonnet
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I am sorry, can you clarify which question? I might have missed it

desert snow
glass sonnet
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I shared the code with you before

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Can you try it please?

desert snow
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that is for billing portal and this is "update_payment_method"

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okay

glass sonnet
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Yes, that is correct.

desert snow
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do you have the api docs for this?

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im using python and you've shared js

glass sonnet
desert snow
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I tried it out and see what you mean

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this works, thanks!

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wait

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how is this attached to a current subscription?

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i need it to be for a specific customer for a specific subscription - this doesn't have that

glass sonnet
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Are you saying that if a customer has 2 subscriptions, you would want them to update the payment method on only one of the subscriptions? Why?

desert snow
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yes

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because if customer has two subscriptions, and they want to purchase only one of them for the next month, I don't want them to put their payment details for both of them

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just the one they want to purchase

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the same idea with trials as well

glass sonnet
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That is not possible. The above method updates this customer.invoice_settings.default_payment_method on the customer object.

desert snow
glass sonnet
desert snow
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this creates a customer portal session

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the link i shared is not a csutomer portal

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please look at the link

glass sonnet
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The link you shared is using the CustomerPortal but you would use it with the deep link I shared with you above.

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Can you try passing the customer id to the previous code you tested?

desert snow
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I did pass in a customer id

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I want to pass in a subscription id as well

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i need it to be for a specific customer for a specific subscription - this doesn't have that

glass sonnet
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That is not possible

desert snow
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It is!

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I made the link through the stripe portal earlier

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how can I make it programtically?

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its not a customer portal link

glass sonnet
desert snow
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the earlier snippet of code you shared is a billing portal and this is to create a customer portal

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I don't it's possible from our conversation

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thanks for the help

glass sonnet
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Sure!