#lean-transfers
harsh sundial
@normal fog just to clarify, which specific type of bank transfer is it? ACH/something else?
normal fog
for now this would be limited to North America, so ACH
harsh sundial
do you know what documention says it's not supported? You can add ACH CT as an option for paying invoices, on https://dashboard.stripe.com/settings/billing/invoice as a default payment term, and then you use that with a Subscription using collection_method=send_invoice. It's a little bit tough to work with, but it is possible
normal fog
What I looked at: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/bank-transfers under Product support it says "No" for subscriptions. I now see that in english it says "ACH bank transfers and wires (beta)" as opposed to ACH Credit Transfer, does that make a difference? I may have gotten confused with the english terms on that since in German it only says "Banküberweisung" which applies to both (to my knowledge that is).
harsh sundial
yeah it's not supported because it's tough to work with as I said(basically the state machine for the Subscription doesn't mesh well with this sort of payment method) and ACH CT uses a legacy integration(we call it 'beta' but it's more of a beta that will never be launched)
but it is possible to make it work, but I would not really recommend it for anyone building a new integration today. You could do the recurring logic yourself and just create Invoices directly for the payment aspect of it, and not use our Subscriptions API, if you absolutely need that specific payment method today
normal fog
I see - just out of curiosity is this problem with the state machine specific to ACH or these sort of asynchronous payment methods in general? Implementing the recurring logic ourselves is what we've been doing until now and im trying to get rid of that with stripe 😅
harsh sundial
mostly with these methods that have asynchronous confirmation of success as far as I know
normal fog
fair enough, I guess thats just in the nature of it. Would you recommend primarily using bank debits then?
harsh sundial
it's easier to use the payment methods we call out on that page as being fully supported, overall