benk-paymentmethods | Stripe Developers | Page 1

upbeat cedar Dec 29, 2021, 6:13 PM

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hello, please paste your follow ups here @long lava

long lava Dec 29, 2021, 6:13 PM

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Hey

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cool

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So my question is this. Users may not have an email for a while and then at some point may add one

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The call above is executed every time they purchase credit

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Is the email attached to the customer on stripe, or the payment record?

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And I mean in terms of sending an email receipt

upbeat cedar Dec 29, 2021, 6:15 PM

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depends on where you attach email

either receipt_email on PaymentIntent or Charge

or email on Customer obj

long lava Dec 29, 2021, 6:15 PM

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I see I am attaching email to the record with stripe.paymentIntents.create

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and later with createPaymentMethod

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I suppose I attach to both

upbeat cedar Dec 29, 2021, 6:16 PM

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what is createPaymentMethod() attaching (that is your function, didn't see what API that calls)

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and the former on PaymentIntents is receipt_email

long lava Dec 29, 2021, 6:17 PM

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I'm an idiot. Sorry. createPaymentMethod is my own method

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OK, so I run stripe.paymentIntents.create for every wallet charge

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aka payment

upbeat cedar Dec 29, 2021, 6:19 PM

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all good! in createPaymentMethod()
is where you are passing

to paymentIntents.create()

long lava Dec 29, 2021, 6:19 PM

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The question is - if I previously created a customer without an email, and then later run stripe.paymentIntents.create with a receipt_email - will it update the customer record with the email?

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(or if they change their email)

upbeat cedar Dec 29, 2021, 6:20 PM

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no it would not, you would have to separately update customers.update() with email

which updates the Customer obj

long lava Dec 29, 2021, 6:20 PM

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Gotcha

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I wonder... I only really use the email on stripe for email receipts

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So stripe.paymentIntents.create will get the latest email every time, and will send a receipt to that email, regardless of the customer email

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what's the email in the customer record used for?

upbeat cedar Dec 29, 2021, 6:27 PM

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what's the email in the customer record used for?

used for when you want to send Invoices or Subscription Invoices to a Customer. I believe if you don't pass receipt_email but have email on the Customer, then you can configure a Dashboard setting to send emails to the email at customer.email

receipt_email always sends an email regardless of that Dashboard setting basically

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