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- manuel_customer-detached-paymentmethod, 17 hours ago, 40 messages
- manuel_paymentlink-discount, 6 days ago, 16 messages
ancient hearth
Hello, Subscriptions don't assume which payment method is the default. So the PM will need to be set as either the customer's invoice_settings[default_payment_method] or the subscription's default_payment_method to be used automatically like that.
ancient hearth
Awesome, let us know if you run in to anything else!
true kettle
Cool! ❤️
So when the subscription update is done, I'll have to list the new payment intent ID that the customer has and assign it to the subscription, is that right?
And will I have to do this every time the customer renews their subscription, or will doing it once be enough?
ancient hearth
The payment method ID, and if you set it in one of the fields I mentioned above, it will automatically by used for each renewal
Also the difference between those two is that the customer setting applies to all subscriptions that don't have a default themself. So if you might have multiple subscriptions and want them to all use one PM, using the customer setting will be easier
true kettle
ok nice! thats great to know
thank you!
And one last question: is there a way to know if a payment method is valid?
For example, let's say a customer has several payment methods attached and adds a new one, and one of these is assigned to the subscription. Would there be any problems, or would Stripe retry with the other payment methods the customer have?
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ancient hearth
We only retry the payment method that you have set as the default. You can swap in other payment method IDs if you want to retry those
If it gets saved via the customer portal is means we validated it as best we could without charging it. Declines can always happen though, like someone could save a card with you and then not have sufficient funds when the charge actually happens.