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barren ermineBOT Jan 20, 2026, 3:17 PM

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day0_code, 2 hours ago, 39 messages

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sharp wigeon Jan 20, 2026, 3:26 PM

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hi there, can you say more about how you're loading the customer's shipping address? does updating the elements afterwards not work for your use case? https://docs.stripe.com/js/elements_object/update#elements_update-options-currency

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red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 3:27 PM

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We load the customer's shipping address when the ApplePay dialog opens

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So we detect the address in the onShippingAddressChange function, which prompts our app to update load the shipping methods for that country and in turn if the address is tied to a currency that wasnt was set initially, we try to update the currency which obviously isn't possible

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So wondering, the best way to handle this sort of scenario where we update the currency after opening the ApplePay/GooglePay dialog ]

sharp wigeon Jan 20, 2026, 3:36 PM

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I'm not sure there's a way to do this, one sec while I investigate

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 3:37 PM

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Thank you

sharp wigeon Jan 20, 2026, 3:40 PM

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I don't think this is possible, you would want to collect the customer's shipping address first before instantiating the Express Checkout Element with the proper currency

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 3:41 PM

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How would we detect the customer's shipping address without the dialog being open?

sharp wigeon Jan 20, 2026, 3:48 PM

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you would collect their shipping address in a separate form beforehand

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 3:49 PM

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That would defeat the purpose of express checkout. What would happen if they then change the address while the dialog is open to a different country for example

sharp wigeon Jan 20, 2026, 3:57 PM

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one moment while I reach out to my colleagues

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 3:58 PM

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Thank you!

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Another question I have, our Google Pay doesn't work on safari. Says payment method not supported and I'm pretty sure it should prompt a log in

sharp wigeon Jan 20, 2026, 4:00 PM

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ok my colleagues agree there's unfortunately no real way to do this, updating the currency on the Elements session wouldn't affect the dialog since it's already open at the time the user is changing the address

sharp wigeon Jan 20, 2026, 4:02 PM

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red thunder Another question I have, our Google Pay doesn't work on safari. Says payment met...

you likely need to set paymentMethods.googlePay to always https://docs.stripe.com/elements/express-checkout-element#:~:text=Google Pay on Safari-based browsers

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 4:03 PM

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sharp wigeon ok my colleagues agree there's unfortunately no real way to do this, updating th...

Ah I see, is there a way to close the dialog when we detect the currency needs to change? This way we can show some of prompt and retrigger the dialog

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 4:04 PM

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sharp wigeon you likely need to set `paymentMethods.googlePay` to `always` https://docs.strip...

It is set to always

<ExpressCheckoutElement
onConfirm={async (event) => this.handlePayment(event)}
options={{
emailRequired: true,
phoneNumberRequired: true,
shippingAddressRequired: true,
// shippingRates: [],
paymentMethods: {
link: "never",
applePay: "always",
googlePay: "always",
paypal: "never",
// @ts-expect-error klarna not in typescript def
klarna: "never",
},
paymentMethodTypes: ['card'],
paymentMethodOrder: ['apple_pay', 'google_pay'],
layout: {maxColumns: 2, maxRows: 2},
}}
onShippingAddressChange={(event) => this.handleShippingAddressChange(event)}
onShippingRateChange={(event) => this.handleShippingRateChange(event)}
onClick={event => this.handleOnClick(event)}
/>

sharp wigeon Jan 20, 2026, 4:08 PM

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red thunder Ah I see, is there a way to close the dialog when we detect the currency needs t...

I'm not seeing a way to do this programmatically. if you call elements.update() with the new currency, what happens?

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do you have a public page I can access with your express checkout element so I can test google pay not appearing in Safari?

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 4:09 PM

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sharp wigeon I'm not seeing a way to do this programmatically. if you call elements.update() ...

The dialog is tuck spinning and you get the can't update currency error

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 4:12 PM

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sharp wigeon do you have a public page I can access with your express checkout element so I c...

Not at the moment

sharp wigeon Jan 20, 2026, 4:23 PM

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if you go to this page in Safari, do you see Google Pay https://docs.stripe.com/testing/wallets?ui=express-checkout-element

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 4:26 PM

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Yup I can see it

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Works fine as well btw

barren ermineBOT Jan 20, 2026, 4:45 PM

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harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 4:54 PM

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Hi there. I'll be taking over for denton here

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Let me get caught up. We have a lot of people asking questions right now so it may be a few minutes

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 5:08 PM

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No worries...the main thing I would like answered is around currency changing. The other issue, I can figure that one out myself

harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 5:13 PM

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sure thing.

The dialog is tuck spinning and you get the can't update currency error

Can you give me the exact error you get? And just to make sure I understand correctly you're trying to change the currency in response to shipping address change, right?

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 5:16 PM

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Yes, exactly

harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 5:16 PM

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ok - can you copy/paste the exact error for me, please?

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 5:17 PM

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"IntegrationError: You cannot update the currency if the payment interface is already open."

harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 5:26 PM

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that certainly makes it seem like we don't support doing this. Let me test this

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there might be a workaround

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 5:26 PM

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Thank you!

harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 5:28 PM

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I think probably the best solution would be using the Checkout Sessions x Elements integration so you can leverage adaptive pricing:

https://docs.stripe.com/payments/currencies/localize-prices/adaptive-pricing?payment-ui=embedded-components

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 5:31 PM

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I think this is all before the dialog is shown but our situation is when the express checkout dialog has been opened

harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 5:32 PM

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The only other option I think is trying to use Elements.destroy() to unmount the ECE and then update the currency and remount the element

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(I'm trying that now)

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 5:36 PM

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If I may, here is how we are set up currently. We can detect the currency changing just before, but wouldn't the destroy ruin the other payment methods?

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harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 5:42 PM

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I'm not sure what you mean by "ruin" - the Google Pay / Apple Pay interface will disappear visually and the Express Checkout Element will be in the original state and they'll have to start again. It does work - I was able to do it just now, but that is the only way to change the currency after someone has clicked the apple pay/google pay button

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Another approach you could use is to use Confirmation Tokens instead and then decide what the currency is after you get shipping info

https://docs.stripe.com/elements/express-checkout-element/accept-a-payment?payment-ui=elements#create-ct

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 5:44 PM

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harsh girder I'm not sure what you mean by "ruin" - the Google Pay / Apple Pay interface will...

Sorry, just to be clear what am I calling destroy on in our use case?

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 5:44 PM

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harsh girder Another approach you could use is to use Confirmation Tokens instead and then de...

I will look into this to see if we could potentially use this

harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 5:45 PM

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So here's what I did to achieve the effect.

In the shipping address change handler, I added logic to detect if the selected shipping address was not US. If it is, I call elements.destroy() on the Express Checkout Element, which unmounts it, and then create a new ECE and update currency to, for example, CAD

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 5:54 PM

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My implementation seems to be timing out

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So my ExpressCheckout component returns this

<ExpressCheckoutElement
onConfirm={async (event) => this.handlePayment(event)}
options={{
emailRequired: true,
phoneNumberRequired: true,
shippingAddressRequired: true,
// shippingRates: [],
paymentMethods: {
link: "never",
applePay: "always",
googlePay: "always",
paypal: "never",
// @ts-expect-error klarna not in typescript def
klarna: "never",
},
paymentMethodTypes: ['card'],
paymentMethodOrder: ['apple_pay', 'google_pay'],
layout: {maxColumns: 2, maxRows: 2},
}}
onShippingAddressChange={(event) => this.handleShippingAddressChange(event)}
onShippingRateChange={(event) => this.handleShippingRateChange(event)}
onClick={event => this.handleOnClick(event)}
/>

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And here is my handleShippingAddressChange method, if the if statment before getting the shipping mehtods is the addition to what we currently have

async handleShippingAddressChange(event: StripeExpressCheckoutElementShippingAddressChangeEvent){

const shippingAddress = this.parseShippingAddress(event.name, event.address)

if(shippingAddress?.country?.iso2 !== this.props.order?.shipping_address?.country?.iso2){
  this.props.elements.destroy()
}

const methods = await this.props.getShippingMethods(shippingAddress)
this.setState({
  shippingAddress,
  shippingMethods: methods,
})

const shippingMethods =  methods.map((method: any) => {
  return {
    id: method.code,
    displayName: method.title,
    description: method.description,
    amount: parseFloat(method.estimatedCost.amount) * 100
  }
})

if(shippingMethods.length == 0){
  event.reject()
  return
}

const lineItems = this.updateElementDetails(
  this.props.checkout,
  shippingMethods[0].amount,
  this.state.paymentMethod
)
event.resolve({
  shippingRates: shippingMethods,
  lineItems
});

}

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replacing this.props.elements.destroy() with event.reject(); return; doesnt seem to work either

harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 6:06 PM

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what's the value of this.props.elements?

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I think you need something closer to this:

const eceElement = elements?.getElement("expressCheckout");
if (eceElement) {
eceElement.destroy();
}

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 6:07 PM

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it should be the stripe elements

harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 6:07 PM

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You're not destroying the elements provider, you're destroying the ECE

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 6:07 PM

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ahhhhh, I see...2 secs

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the dialog stays open after destroying the ECE

harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 6:10 PM

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what dialogue? Google Pay/Apple Pay?

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 6:12 PM

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Yup

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ApplePay

harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 6:14 PM

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well darn. I tested using Google Pay and it worked fine - let me see if I get the same behavior

barren ermineBOT Jan 20, 2026, 6:16 PM

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harsh girder Jan 20, 2026, 6:17 PM

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Yeah, Apple Pay's dialogue is persistent I suppose

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That is kind of back to square one. I think your only options here are either collecting desired currency beforehand or using Confirmation Tokens

red thunder Jan 20, 2026, 6:18 PM

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Thank you, I will need to look into the Confirmation Tokens

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