Suren-subscriptions | Stripe Developers | Page 1

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 7:32 AM

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hello @keen nimbus! do you have an example subscription id which we can look at?

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 7:33 AM

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sub_1Jydx7BfTh1Z0SMkM6EJ8twL

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the problem is that only after an hour does past_due become

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 7:56 AM

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Most invoices generated for a subscription have a one hour period before finalization where changes can be made.

This behavior applies to all invoices except for the first invoice generated for a subscription where collection_method: charge_automatically.

For charge_automatically, the invoice only becomes past_due when payment is attempted and fails.

If you want the invoice to be paid immediately, you can use the API to finalize [0] and pay [1] the invoice after you receive the invoice.created event

[0] https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/finalize
[1] https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/pay

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 8:05 AM

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If I use this, the subscription status will not be active if there is no payment?

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 8:09 AM

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are you referring to the first payment?

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 8:13 AM

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Well, my problem now is that after the end of the cycle, the status becomes active and I need to immediately send past_due instead

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that is, I expect that the active status becomes after a successful payment

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just want to understand if i set collection_method: 'charge_automatically' subscription status will not be active if no payment has been made

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I just think that there is default to set this flag

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unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 8:31 AM

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as you've already noticed, there's probably going to be a short period of time that the subscription is still active when the invoice has been created, but not yet finalized. You can minimize this time by using the API to immediately finalize and attempt payment. If the attempted payment fails, the subscription will change to past_due - this behaviour is applicable for charge_automatically

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there are two options for collection_method : charge_automatically and send_invoice. As send_invoice implies, it will send your customer an invoice for them to fill up their payment details. I don't think this is what you'd want since it's completely different from charging automatically

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 8:36 AM

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I understand so I can't achieve this result right?

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I just don't want the stripe to send me the active status at all if there was no payment

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because when the active status is sent to me, I think that the payment has been made

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 8:42 AM

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no, you can't achieve this result. But why would receiving this status update be an issue?

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ideally, the system would see that the status is active, and do nothing, since the previous status was also active

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 8:43 AM

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the fact is that I confirm the payment through the subscription status

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yes I thought so too

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but in such a case how to check whether the payment was made or not

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 8:46 AM

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Stripe will determine if the payment is made or not and update the subscription status accordingly. It would be easier for you to turn on/off your service based off the subscription status. If you want to also store the payment in your DB, then you can listen for the invoice.paid webhook event instead

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 8:48 AM

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Will invoice.paid work after every subscription payment?

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 8:49 AM

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out of curiosity, are you determining whether you should stop providing the service based on whether the user has completed payment?

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 8:50 AM

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yes, only there if the payment is not made there I will post a retry

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 8:51 AM

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sorry i didn't understand only there if the payment is not made there I will post a retry, could you maybe try to rephrase?

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 8:56 AM

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I mean Payment retries

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so i stuck to the view that i can listen to invoice.paid for love subscription

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 9:00 AM

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is there a reason why you're not using automatic payment retries? there is a setting in the Dashboard for this

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 9:00 AM

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and for update too?

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 9:00 AM

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what do you want to update?

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 9:01 AM

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i just want to understand invoice.paid will work for both subscription create and subscription update

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 9:02 AM

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yes invoice.paid will generate for both subscription create and subscription update

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 9:02 AM

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and i will get metadata what i passed to subscription

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inside invoice.paid

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 9:03 AM

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no, the invoice will not contain the subscription metadata

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 9:04 AM

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in such a case, how to determine who paid?

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or what is paid for

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 9:05 AM

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the invoice will contain the subscription id : https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-subscription

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it will also contain the customer id : https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-customer

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 9:06 AM

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which means I have to send a request to get a subscription

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 9:08 AM

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that's one option, or you can also store whatever data you need in your own database to be retrieved based off the subscription id or customer id

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 9:10 AM

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so I listen to invoice.paid then I will find the subscription id there and for this id I can already get the metadata of this subscription

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 9:11 AM

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yes, if that's the way you want to handle it

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 9:13 AM

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I'm just looking at the subscription id there now

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there is only a subscription without an id

unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 9:13 AM

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can you share the object id which you're looking at?

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 9:14 AM

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unborn shadow Dec 23, 2021, 9:15 AM

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that's an example, it's possible that an invoice is created without a subscription as well. If you want to check how the event would look like, i would suggest using the events generated on your own Dashboard instead

keen nimbus Dec 23, 2021, 9:16 AM

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aaaa yes you are right thank you very much

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