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thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:01 PM

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Can you be more specific. What specifically do you need help with?

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:01 PM

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hi

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sure, i'll try

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i'm pretty sure i'm almost there but still have some doubts

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basically, on how to build the features.subscription_update.products

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i'll give you a scenario

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each of this "products" have 2 prices, one for monthly and one for yearly

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i want to create a customer portal configuration for each of the products

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where a customer can upgrade to the higher products

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and be avle to choose yearly or monthly, independently of his current situation

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these are the docs

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but i can't figure out exactly how to construct my features.subscription_update.products object

thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:07 PM

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So if you look underneath each param, it tells you the data type it needs to be, so features.subscription_update.products needs to be an array of objects. And within each object in that array you'll have prices, which needs to be an array of strings and product which is just a string

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What language are you using?

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:08 PM

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javascript, nodejs

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i get that, but i see products.product and products.prices are on the same level, in the docs, shouldn't prices be nested into products?

thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:09 PM

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No they're at the same level

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You'll have a product/prices pair for each element in your products array

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:10 PM

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oh, i think i see it

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give me one moment please

thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:12 PM

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So like this structure: products: [{prices: [], product:""}]

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:13 PM

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like this?

{
  features: {
    subscription_update: {
      enabled: true,
      products: [{
        product: 'prod_Qj40USG6Qhq2XW',
        prices: ['price_1PrbsG009aFOms2RBaXuPZ6P', 'price_1PrbsG009aFOms2RBaXuPZ6P']
      }]
    }
  }
}

thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:14 PM

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looks right to me

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:14 PM

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awesome

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thank you so much

thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:14 PM

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that would be an array of objects

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:15 PM

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so this would work:

{
  ...
  features: {
    subscription_update: {
      enabled: true,
      products: [{
        product: 'prod_Qj40USG6Qhq2XW',
        prices: ['price_1PrbsG009aFOms2RBaXuPZ6P', 'price_1PrbsG009aFOms2RBaXuPZ6P']
      }, {
        product: 'prod_Qj40USG6Qhq2XW',
        prices: ['price_1PrbsG009aFOms2RBaXuPZ6P', 'price_1PrbsG009aFOms2RBaXuPZ6P']
      }],
      proration_behavior: 'create_prorations'
    }
  }
  ...
}

thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:16 PM

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Well you're passing the same product id and price over and over which doesn't make sense

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But the structure looks correct

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:16 PM

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yes i know

thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:16 PM

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Try it to see if it works

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:17 PM

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give me a moment then, please

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should i set "default_allowed_updates" to false?

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so this is the object i'm using for trying to create:

{
  "business_profile": {
    "headline": "Agency Starter"
  },
  "default_return_url": null,
  "features": {
    "customer_update": {
      "allowed_updates": ["email", "tax_id"],
      "enabled": true
    },
    "invoice_history": {
      "enabled": true
    },
    "payment_method_update": {
      "enabled": true
    },
    "subscription_cancel": {
      "cancellation_reason": {
        "enabled": true,
        "options": ["too_expensive", "missing_features", "switched_service", "unused", "other"]
      },
      "enabled": false,
      "mode": "at_period_end",
      "proration_behavior": "none"
    },
    "subscription_pause": {
      "enabled": false
    },
    "subscription_update": {
      "default_allowed_updates": false,
      "enabled": true,
      "products": [
        {
          "product": "prod_Qhw89PtPzonlTr",
          "prices": ["price_1PqWHY009aFOms2R2Hwhjqie", "price_1PqWGh009aFOms2Rf1MWyFTT"]
        },
        {
          "product": "prod_QhwA5yYbfhXra6",
          "prices": ["price_1PqWJm009aFOms2RLV1r7nJL", "price_1PqWIW009aFOms2Rk4V3eoWP"]
        }
      ],
      "proration_behavior": "create_prorations"
    }
  }
}

But i'm getting the error Invalid Array

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thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:32 PM

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Can you share the error message and which line specifically it's being thrown on

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Please share the line of your code it's being thrown on

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:33 PM

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this is the whole stacktrace i'm getting

thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:33 PM

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Yep

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What is line 102 of RequestSender.js

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:33 PM

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this is the code:

import { Stripe } from 'stripe';
import { paymentPlans } from 'misc/payment-plans';
import object from './object.json';
const { STRIPE_SECRET_KEY } = process.env;

const stripe = new Stripe(STRIPE_SECRET_KEY);

const portalConfig = await stripe.billingPortal.configurations.create(object);
console.log(portalConfig);

process.exit(0);

thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:33 PM

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You can see that's where it's erroring in the error message

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:33 PM

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RequestSender.js is from the stripe sdk, it's not mine

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thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:34 PM

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Oh missed that

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Ok. Try removing just subscription_update from the object

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Does it work then?

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You need to narrow down where it's happening specifically

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Just use debugging to narrow down exactly where this is occurring

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:35 PM

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i'll try

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yup, it worked

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so, the problem is somehow here:

"subscription_update": {
      "default_allowed_updates": false,
      "enabled": true,
      "products": [
        {
          "product": "prod_Qhw89PtPzonlTr",
          "prices": ["price_1PqWHY009aFOms2R2Hwhjqie", "price_1PqWGh009aFOms2Rf1MWyFTT"]
        },
        {
          "product": "prod_QhwA5yYbfhXra6",
          "prices": ["price_1PqWJm009aFOms2RLV1r7nJL", "price_1PqWIW009aFOms2Rk4V3eoWP"]
        }
      ],
      "proration_behavior": "create_prorations"
    }

thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:37 PM

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I'll give you a hint

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Look at the type for this param: https://docs.stripe.com/api/customer_portal/configurations/create#create_portal_configuration-features-subscription_update-default_allowed_updates

Create a portal configuration | Stripe API Reference

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:38 PM

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ok, before you sent me that hint, i tried changing false to an empty array and i got "parameter missing"

thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:39 PM

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Yeah you need to pass something

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:39 PM

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the possible enums are price, quantity and promotion code

thin solar Aug 30, 2024, 1:39 PM

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Yes, and what are you wanting customers to update?

visual flare Aug 30, 2024, 1:39 PM

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i don't want the user to change any of that, only to "upgrade" to a different product

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so, should i just use price?

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with: "default_allowed_updates": ["price"], it worked

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but i'm not sure exactly what that means in terms of the final result

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i'll use this configuration for now

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and when i start creating billing portal sessions, i'll see if it's what i want. If not, i'll come back for a different chat

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