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- mr-stinky-pants_webhooks, 2 days ago, 33 messages
kindred thunder
Hello, can you tell me more about what you mean about the pending setup intent being gone? Has the subscription moved to a paid phase at that point? Or is it gone in some other way?
midnight anvil
no its still there
i mean its not available on the customer object when getting it again at a later time
it strange as this used to work and not made any changes, just trying to test some other things out that come pater
kindred thunder
What does that mean API-wise? Like what exactly are you doing where it does show up and what exactly are you doing when it shows as not available?
midnight anvil
well im gussing the pending setup intent has a time limit or session limit?
when accessing the subscription in the same session the pending setup intent is there:
SubscriptionService subscriptionService = new SubscriptionService();
SubscriptionListOptions subscriptionListOptions = new SubscriptionListOptions
{
Customer = customer.Id,
};
subscriptionListOptions.AddExpand("data.items");
subscriptionListOptions.AddExpand("data.pending_setup_intent");
kindred thunder
Nope, intents stay usable indefinitely until they are either successfully confirmed or cancelled
Which is part of why I am unclear on what you are talking about. Is a field showing up as null? Are you getting an error that it no longer exists?
midnight anvil
yes when coming back to this code on a different session subscription.PendingSetupIntent is null
and the id
i can see in logs it was there when subscription created pm_1QK1z0JKY8YXH2zhjbIaRMFg
sorry seti_1QK1o2JKY8YXH2zhHWZLebcn
kindred thunder
That setup intent was successfully confirmed https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_bavyiQ3UPrltjH
midnight anvil
oh right its used already
kindred thunder
Yeah, honestly I am still confused at what you are trying to do overall. Maybe if you walk me through what API calls you are making for these separate sessions I can get a better idea. Stripe doesn't have a concept of sessions, so I don't want to assume what you mean there.
One thing I will say is that you can create your own SetupIntents for these customers. So if the original SetupIntent from the trial was still used, you can just create another one to save a new payment method without taking a payment. https://docs.stripe.com/api/setup_intents/create
midnight anvil
sorry i think i get it, its because there was a bug half way through so my process was not complete but the payment intent had been used
i should check if its null and create a new one as you say
kindred thunder
Can you walk me through your process and where you are getting stuck? Basically if there is a payment right now, you should use the existing payment intent to make payment and save the card, if there isn't one you can use a SetupIntent. You don't necessarily need to check if there was an existing one in that second scenario, you can just create a setup intent when you realize that you need one
midnight anvil
im not used to it because i use subscitions and i guess a payment intent is made automatically
theres 2 pages https://www.windowsoftware.co.uk/try so a few people get to the second page and see input card and leave it, but might come back later so i reuse that customer and subscription
but i mean if you can create a payment intent maybe i dont need a customer first
i was making a customer and subsciption to get subscription.PendingSetupIntent.ClientSecret for the <form id="payment-form"
kindred thunder
Gotcha, here it sounds like setup intents would make more sense, it sounds like you are just trying to let users set up their PMs to be charged next cycle rather than charging them something right now.
So yeah, using that pending setup intent if it exists and if not creating a new one sounds like it makes sense. Or it might be even easier to try to use that pending setup intent on that first session after the subscription was created and then just create setup intents whenever the user accesses that page again
midnight anvil
well its 7 day trial
kindred thunder
Yep and it is fine to re-use that setup intent as long as it hasn't already been confirmed. So maybe try to use the pending setup intent for those sevent days and create intents after. The one edge case to keep in mind is that someone might add one card and then come back to add another during that trial
midnight anvil
so to use create setupIntent to be used on a subscrition what properties would you need to set?
because subscription auto makes one normally
kindred thunder
The only thing you would need to specify is customer ID, then when the setup intent is successfully confirmed you can set the newly created payment method as the default for the subscription or customer as appropriate
midnight anvil
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