rasparac-Subscription | Stripe Developers | Page 1

carmine salmon Dec 17, 2021, 8:23 AM

#

You should still able to use the method above, when an event invoice.payment_succeeded arrives on a real payment (not trial one)

digital wave Dec 17, 2021, 8:31 AM

#

yep, but do i need to set default payment before trial ends?
how user will be charged when trial ends?

carmine salmon Dec 17, 2021, 8:45 AM

#

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

Using trial periods on subscriptions

Delay payments on active subscriptions using trial periods.

#

When trial_end is approaching, you will receive a invoice.created event. You would want to collect your customer Payment around that time

digital wave Dec 17, 2021, 8:50 AM

#

is there an easier way? We have also subscriptions without trial and those will get invoice.created.
Can i use single event to set payment method for subscriptions with trial and without trial?

#

Can i use fore example,
setup_intent.succeeded for tiral and payment_intent.succeeded without trial?

carmine salmon Dec 17, 2021, 9:06 AM

#

I believe invoice.created is fired in both cases, no?

digital wave Dec 17, 2021, 9:17 AM

#

yes, it's fired in both cases.
but i'm already listen for payment_intent and setup_intent succeeded and if i can use those two events i would use them.

raw furnace Dec 17, 2021, 9:22 AM

#

Hey there! Taking over from @carmine salmon – just catching up

digital wave Dec 17, 2021, 9:27 AM

#

oke :). If something is not clear i can explain.

raw furnace Dec 17, 2021, 9:29 AM

#

For a Subscription where there is no immediate payment (i.e. a trial) then there will be a Setup Intent to authorise the payment method for the off-session payments. So you should see setup_intent.succeeded events yes

#

You can get the Payment Method object ID from that event: https://stripe.com/docs/api/setup_intents/object#setup_intent_object-payment_method

Stripe API reference – The SetupIntent object

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

digital wave Dec 17, 2021, 9:38 AM

#

nice. When that happens i can set default payment for the subscription. And when trials end i will get payment_intent.succeeded for new invoice which will be generated the start of billing period? In that case i will again update payment method? Can something go wrong if i update update subscription payment method two times with same payment_method id?
I'm asking this because users are also able to buy subscription without trial which will fire payment_intent.succeeded event and plan is to set payment method for the users who bought subscriptions without trial.

#

sorry for this questions but we wanna make sure that everything is ok with payments.

raw furnace Dec 17, 2021, 9:42 AM

#

In that case i will again update payment method? Can something go wrong if i update update subscription payment method two times with same payment_method id?
I don't think anything will go wrong, the API may just error. You should be able to test this out

#

Otherwise just write logic in your application to check if the default_payment_method field is set on the Subscription

digital wave Dec 17, 2021, 10:15 AM

#

why asking this is because in some cases stripe dashboard does not show payment method when i go to customers and list all the customers.
Is that because i did not set default payment method?

raw furnace Dec 17, 2021, 10:18 AM

#

If there's no payment methods listed on a Customer object then it sounds like they weren't attached. Do you have an example?

digital wave Dec 17, 2021, 10:21 AM

#

what example?
i do not attach payment method customer.
Flow is this:

create customer
create subscription
insert credit card details and confirm subscription

#

i can see in dashboard that subscription has payment method, but it's not listed in customer object list

#

Do i need to also attach payment method to the customer?

raw furnace Dec 17, 2021, 10:27 AM

#

digital wave what example? i do not attach payment method customer. Flow is this: - create cu...

An example Customer object

raw furnace Dec 17, 2021, 10:27 AM

#

digital wave Do i need to also attach payment method to the customer?

It's not really important if its set on the Subscription. Just means you'll need to collect payment data again for any future payments/subscriptions

digital wave Dec 17, 2021, 10:28 AM

#

https://stripe.com/docs/js/payment_intents/confirm_card_payment#stripe_confirm_card_payment-data-setup_future_usage

Stripe JavaScript SDK reference – Confirm a card payment

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe JavaScript SDK.

#

is this the problem, we do not send anything

#

we want to attach payment method to the customer and not worry about that, later users can update that in billing portal

raw furnace Dec 17, 2021, 10:30 AM

#

No, that's taken care of via the initial Setup Intent/Payment Intent. There's no problem per se. The subscription will be renewed using the payment method set on that object

raw furnace Dec 17, 2021, 10:30 AM

#

digital wave we want to attach payment method to the customer and not worry about that, later...

You'll need to make a separate API call to do that then: https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_methods/attach

Stripe API reference – Attach a PaymentMethod to a Customer

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

digital wave Dec 17, 2021, 10:30 AM

#

Ok, that's nice. Only thing that i need to to is attach payment method to the customer.

#rasparac-Subscription