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- fatima_docs, 21 hours ago, 9 messages
languid rose
Hi there
Yes, all attached PaymentMethods would show up. The Customer's Cash Balance (the customer_balance payment method type) is not actually represented by a PaymentMethod so that wouldn't be returned.
indigo meteor
what is it represented by?
languid rose
You would use https://docs.stripe.com/api/cash_balance/retrieve to get that information
It is a balance directly associated to the Customer
What are you really trying to do here?
indigo meteor
ok so we have a bunch of customers, for the most part they have a default payment set (usually credit card). but we have cases where a stripe customer is created and the payment method is "USD Cash Balance". Previously, we also had customers created with an ACH Credit Transfer as their default payment, but thats now deprecated.
in our app, when a customer looks at their page, if they have a linked Stripe customer, we display their billing profile. The billing profile only counts as "activated" or "real" if it has a payment method attached.
The issue i am facing is that customers with USD Cash Balance are showing as they dont have a billing profile, becuase its not listed as a payment type. So its assuming the customer didnt choose a payment method
I am looking for a way to still display these customers as having a billing profile. But a customer who in Stripe has nothing selected under Payment Methods, should behave as it does now and not show any billing profile
indigo meteor
You would use https://docs.stripe.com/api/cash_balance/retrieve to get that info...
At the moment, our code just checks for payment methods and sources (deprecated). I guess i should expand it to look at cash balances too?
languid rose
Yeah any new Customer though will have a Cash Balance.
So it really depends on how you want to handle it on your end.
indigo meteor
Yeah any new Customer though will have a Cash Balance.
what do you mean? Customer's automatically have a $0 balance? Or is it null until bank transfer is set as a Payment Method?
languid rose
Ah actually I think available would be null if they have never used the Cash Balance.
So that could serve the same purpose
languid rose
👍
indigo meteor
when using the retrieve customer api, could I expand it to include cash balances? or would that have to be a seperate request
indigo meteor
oh nice, thank you so much