sercan92_api

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[maiden canopy]

Hi there, you should just use stripe.customers.createFundingInstructions() API, This API will create new instructions if they aren't created for the customer yet. Otherwise it will just return the same instructions.

[shut sluice]

Thanks for the response, but I think there is a misunderstanding.

I understand that createFundingInstructions() is idempotent and returns existing instructions if they already exist.

The problem is: I don’t want to create funding instructions as a side effect of simply viewing a customer’s detail page in my admin UI.

Current behaviour:
Admin opens customer detail page -> our code calls createFundingInstructions() to display vIBAN data
Problem is that if no funding instructions exist yet, they are automatically created just by viewing the page.

Is there a way to check if funding instructions exist and retrieve them if they do, but NOT create new ones if they don’t exist?

An example use case would be:
We want to rollout vIBAN to a selected number of customers first to test our webhook logic.
But when admins view other customers detail pages, we don’t want to accidentally create vIBANs for them.

Is there a read-only API endpoint for this? Or another way of determining if a customer has an active vIBAN account?

[maiden canopy]

No there's no API to check if funding instructions were created for a customer yet.

You may want to implement a feature flag in your app and only turn on the flag for selected customers whom you wish to show the VBAN to.