mentijm-subscription | Stripe Developers | Page 1

lean trellis Jan 12, 2022, 10:27 AM

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Hi @whole stag! If I understand correctly, you have a customer who already has a default payment method set to an expired credit card. Then you would like to know what would happen if you create a subscription for this customer?

whole stag Jan 12, 2022, 10:29 AM

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Yeah, unless that is something that can't happen 🙂

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Asking because we discovered that the subscription create call fails if the customer does not have a payment method. So now we checking that it has a payment method before making the subscription create call. But then we thought what if the customer only has an invalid/expired PM?

lean trellis Jan 12, 2022, 10:35 AM

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the subscription create call fails if the customer does not have a payment method.
You could set payment_behavior: "default_incomplete" when creating the subscription. This allows you to create a subscription even if the customer doesn't have a payment method.
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/overview#default-incomplete

whole stag Jan 12, 2022, 10:38 AM

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Ok thanks for that info. But what about the initial question? Will it fail with an expired pm?

lean trellis Jan 12, 2022, 10:39 AM

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I'm not sure, I'll need to test that on my end. Pease give me some time.

whole stag Jan 12, 2022, 10:39 AM

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Ok thanks 🙂

lean trellis Jan 12, 2022, 10:40 AM

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And just to clarify, when you create your subscription you don't pass the payment_behavior field?

whole stag Jan 12, 2022, 10:40 AM

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That's correct

lean trellis Jan 12, 2022, 11:02 AM

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After discussing with a colleague, I learned that if a customer has an expired card, then the subscription would just attempt the charge and see if it works or not.

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