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mighty oreBOT
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cosmic jackal
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hi there!

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when you create a schedule that starts immediately, the first invoice is in draft yes. but you can finalize the invoice yourself with an extra API call if needed.

gray sequoia
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Ah ok! So the create schedule returns a schedule object. What endpoint am I calling to finalise the invoice?

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Or i suppose a better question is, how do i get the invoice_id from the schedule? As it doesnt look like this is included in the response

cosmic jackal
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the schedule contains a subscription, and the subscription contains a latest_invoice. note that you can use expand to retrieve all of these objects in a single API call: https://docs.stripe.com/expand

gray sequoia
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man i wish I had known this sooner lol. Do you know how many API calls I could reduce 🤣

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So for a scheudle I need to call ['expand' => 'subscription'] ?

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Or is there something I can expand to get the invoice?

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And presumbly I can do this when creating a subscripiton too? So for example, if I wanted to get the charge when I create a sub, how can i do this?

cosmic jackal
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So for a scheudle I need to call ['expand' => 'subscription'] ?
yep, that will contain the Subscription object, which does contain the Invoice ID in lastest_invoice

gray sequoia
cosmic jackal
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And presumbly I can do this when creating a subscripiton too?
yes you can use expand when creating/updating/retrieving objects

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is it possible to get the invoice object directly?
then it would be ['expand' => 'subscription.latest_invoice']

gray sequoia
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why did i not know this

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And what about getting the charge? Is it that possible when creating a sub?

cosmic jackal
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it depends. if you are creating a Sub and the customer already has a payment method to charge, then yes you should be able to get the Charge. It should be in latest_invoice -> payment_intent -> latest_charge.

gray sequoia
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this would be on the creation of a new sub

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currenrlt I rely on the webhook to receive the charge and store it our end, but i have one circumstance (checkout) where I need to return some of the data within. Really want I want here is the invoice_url, so if I can get that from the sub using latest_invoice then that is more than sufficient.

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So to recap, I need to expand the schedule to get the latest_invoice, and then calll finalize the invoice via the api.

And in respect to creating a sub without a schedule, similar approach to get the invoice.

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thanks soma!

cosmic jackal
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yep. I recommend testing all of this in test mode to make sure it works as you expect.

gray sequoia
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ofc ty 🙂

mighty oreBOT
gray sequoia
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Is there a list of the related resources anywhere I can refer to? It isnt clear how a charge for example may or may not be related to an invoice

calm totem
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I don't think there's a specific doc or diagram unfortunately, but happy to try and clarify anything

gray sequoia
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no worries, let me make some test api calls and see what happens!

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For clarity, where should the expand go? I had put this in options, but should be in params?

calm totem
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params, the second argument (i.e. not the third argument hash that might have stripe_account or some other request options in it)

gray sequoia
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ah, ok il try that

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Sorry, this is on schedule->create, which the first param to the function is the data array. The second param is options. So this shiould go inside the data array?

calm totem
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yep

gray sequoia
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roger that

gray sequoia
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right so I've got it finalizing the invoice now, however it hasnt been charged and is in an imcomplete state. do you know why this might be?

calm totem
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do you have the ID of the schedule or subscription or invoice etc so I can have a look?

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but it's probably just the exepcted 1 hour wait on a finalized invoice

gray sequoia
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yes 2 moments

calm totem
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if you want to process the payment right now you would confirm the Invoice's PaymentIntent on the frontend, or call the Pay Invoice API endpoint. unfortuantly starting a subscription using a schedule is pretty unergonomic and requires a ton of extra steps, and the docs don't really cover it

gray sequoia
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What im surprised by is thar this doesnt happen when Icall subsription create

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calm totem
gray sequoia
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Ugh... well, at least i konw this. So i can expand to get the latest invoice from the schedule, then i have to call finalize invoice, then i have to call pay?

I cant skip finalize?

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e.g. just call pay without finalizing?

calm totem
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looking at that invoice it's just that really, you can either wait for it to auto advance or manually pay by confirming the PaymentIntent or the Pay Invoice endpoint

So i can expand to get the latest invoice from the schedule, then i have to call finalize invoice, then i have to call pay?
basically yes
: e.g. just call pay without finalizing?
no

gray sequoia
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Ok not an issue, 3 API calls. This type of checkout product is unsual anyway, its just that we let our users create complex product structures that ultimatley is a schedule that moves a subscription through various stages