#javier-portal
lime tundra
@trail turtle it's a good question .There isn't really a perfect answer though.
I actually don't think there's any real way to definitively know this in all cases. You could for example look at the billing_reason of the Invoice object(https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-billing_reason) and only send emails if it's subscription_cycle(recurring invoices) but if the customer is using the portal to re-attempt payment of a recurring invoice that failed, it would match as well, so yeah, not perfect.
trail turtle
@lime tundra Ok, thanks. I'll do that for the moment, only send emails for subscription_cycle.
Another question. When an scheduled subscription is transformed in a subscription. Which is the value of the billing_reason? Because I'm also using scheduled subsriptions, which maybe a problem in case the payment fails.
lime tundra
as in what is the billing_reason on the first invoice of a subscription created in the future from a schedule? I think it's also subscription_cycle (it should be subscription_create but I think this is a quirk) but I'm not 100% sure without testing it specifically
trail turtle
Thanks, @lime tundra, I'll test it, it would be better for me if it is subscription_cycle 😅
I forgot to mention, that I found this answer, I don't understand this completely, but does it make sense for you? https://stackoverflow.com/a/69056190
