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• dev-commerciax_api, 2 days ago, 13 messages

[vivid gale]

Checkout Session and Subscription Schedule are 2 different things. It's expected that they will create a Subscription themselves, so you have 2 Subscriptions

[gusty solar]

SO, What's the solution? I am using embedded checkout in my frontend which expects a client secret and checkout session id which I can get both from only a checkout session

I went through the docs and all there is, is how to create a subscription schedule, and nothing about how to take the payment or any integration guides

[vivid gale]

Let's take a step back. What are you trying to achieve? Normally you only use either one of those API (Checkout vs Subscription Schedule)

[gusty solar]

So, I want to give my users a paid trail before the subscription starts. like 3 months @ $1. So, first month they pay $1 and then the next 2 months they are not charged anything and then in the 4th month, they pay the actual subscription price.

But this was complex and there were a lot of issues. So, I asked for help and one of the stripe devs suggested me to use subscription schedules

But Since there's not much on it I was doing it the way I shared

[vivid gale]

Hmm I think that approach is fine though... Which kind of issues you have? Sorry don't mean to revert the conversation, just want to understand the context correctly

[gusty solar]

No problem, There were a lot like since the payment intent is not related to susbcription directly I was not getting the invoice linked to subscription. The correct invoice for initial payment. Also, the payment method was not linked to customer in that case and I couldn't show that either. And Sincerely No billing reached the 3 moths, So I wasn't sure if they will be charged correctly since the payment method is not linked to subscription but rather it was one time payment. and so on

[vivid gale]

Well I think once you can manage the linkage (using metadata for example), you can solve them all. But okie let's put that aside

Let's say now you want to use Subscirption Schedule. Do you need to collect the customer payment method before starting the trial?

[gusty solar]

Yes, Since there are lot of customers Who use defaulted cards which has 0 balance and take free trial. So the company thought of converting it into paid trial.

As soon as the subscription starts and initial payment is done, customers can see their chosen payment method in the dashboard

[vivid gale]

Sure. So

1. Use a Checkout Session in Setup mode to collect the customer payment method.
2. Take the collected Payment Method inside the SetupIntent, set to the customer's default payment method
3. Proceed to create a Subscription Schedule on that Customer, setting trial to 3 months

[wise carbon]

👋 taking over for my colleague. Let me know if there's any follow-up Qs I can answer!

[gusty solar]

Earlier I was recieving customer.susbcription.updated where I handled payment method as payment method id was available but this mode doesn't do that. and Since I can't attach any metadata to payment.method.attached event, it would be hard for me to track the payment method in subscription

[tiny oyster]

hi! I'm taking over this thread.

not sure I really understand your question about metadata. can you share more details about your use case?

[gusty solar]

So, is there a better way to track the related payment method? I only get these 5 events

Okay, So I am using subscription schedules with setup mode checkout session for initial payment. shared the code bove

I recieve only these events this time compared to earlier where I was recieving a lot more events and handling the susbcription data. Now I need to link the susbcription to the payment method attached

but since payment.method.attached doesn't take any metadata from my side, it is hard to track without a payment method id, unless I store it which is not a good way for stateless server.

So I was tracking it earlier in subscription.updated event but Now I don't recieve it, so How do i link them?

Since checkout.session.completed also doesn't provide me with payment method id

If either I could attach some meta to the payment.method.attached event or I could get its id in some other event where I recieve the meta, so I would be able to track it

[tiny oyster]

why not listen to the checkout.session.completed event? and with that event you should be able to retrive all the information you need: customer, payment method, etc.

also note that I think your flow could be simplified:

• Directly create a Subscription with the Checkout Session. you can use Discount to lower the first amount the user has to pay
• As soon as the Subscription is created, then you can transform the existing subscription into a subscription schedule with multiple phases

[gusty solar]

This is the event object where I am not getting payment method Id or customer billing address. Not only that I am also not getting the invoice details in invoice.created, it has number, url and other properties as null

[vague mesa]

Hey! Taking over for my colleague. Let me catch up.

[gusty solar]

Sure, do take your time

[vague mesa]

This Checkout Session, was created for setup mode evt_1RoKI1SCN5U3Z9OGTxYWbKh9 and not for Subscription