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kind viper Oct 4, 2021, 2:08 PM

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sand ivy Oct 4, 2021, 2:09 PM

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alternatively I could not listen to invoice.payment_action_required I suppose and just check the flag in payment_failed to see what kind of email to send to the customer

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I am curious to why payment_failed event is sent. Strictly speaking the payment hasn't failed right?

It just isn't done processing and needs a manual step

mild cairn Oct 4, 2021, 2:12 PM

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Hey 👋 apologies for the delay, please bear with me a moment while I read through this.

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While I do, could you provide a link to the documentation you're referring to, just to make sure we're on the same page (pun intended).

sand ivy Oct 4, 2021, 2:13 PM

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Absolutely!

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https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks

Using webhooks with subscriptions

Learn to use webhooks to receive notifications of subscription activity.

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https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks#action-required

Using webhooks with subscriptions

Learn to use webhooks to receive notifications of subscription activity.

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direct link to the section

mild cairn Oct 4, 2021, 2:18 PM

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Thank you for that, let me double check if there is any other reason a PaymentIntent would go into a requires_action state, other than requiring authentication.

sand ivy Oct 4, 2021, 2:19 PM

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what is the flow you would recomment?

listen to payment_failed, and send action email to customer if requires_action = true

or, ignore payment_failed when requires_action = true and instead also listen to requires_action webhook?

mild cairn Oct 4, 2021, 2:33 PM

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In my opinion, it depends on whether or not you're planning to receive payment_failed for any other reason.

If so, I'd listen to those events and then check the requires_action value inside of the block processing the event.

If you don't plan on doing anything else with payment_failed events, then I'd subscribe to the payment_action_required events instead.

sand ivy Oct 4, 2021, 2:34 PM

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I do use payment_failed to send out an unpaid invoice normally.

Which in truth is what I will do now aswell with action_required. With the one difference that I will have a link in the email

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So makes sense that I just listen for payment_failed

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Can I just double check my flow with you.

Recieve payment_failed with requires_action.
Send email to my customer to link them to a page, and send with the invocie id (that I took from step 1).
When customer loads page, take invoice id, look up invoice.payment_intent (is that always set?)
Get payment_intent and get intent.client_secret.
Now in the view I serve the user I use stripe.js and run stripe.confirmCardPayment(clientSecret)

And that takes care of everything?

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Is that a correct flow?

mild cairn Oct 4, 2021, 2:44 PM

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Running through a test scenario to confirm.

sand ivy Oct 4, 2021, 2:45 PM

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Fantastic, thanks!

mild cairn Oct 4, 2021, 2:51 PM

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Thanks for your patience! Those steps looked right, but I just wanted to double check and my test flow using them worked as expected.

sand ivy Oct 4, 2021, 2:51 PM

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awesome, really appreciate the help there!

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Then I should be able to finish this rather quick

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Is it best practise or at least fine to have

https://ourProduct/authPayment?id=in_3456789765

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So is it fine to have your invoice id (in_654897789) in the url I email customer

mild cairn Oct 4, 2021, 2:58 PM

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That's fine, it's just an identifier. It's not a sensitive value like the client_secret.

sand ivy Oct 4, 2021, 2:59 PM

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Fantastic!

Then this should be done in a flash, thanks!

mild cairn Oct 4, 2021, 3:04 PM

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Glad to hear! If there is ever anything else we can help with, we'll be here 😄

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