#nj0y-Customer
undone nymph
Hi, sorry for the inconvenience, but I think our API doesn't support that way (The List Customer API does require type)
👋 @grave pier let's continue here
Normally you wouldn't need to list all payment methods with a Customer. What would you want to achieve with it?
grave pier
I want users to be able to set up payment methods for future billing with Stripe Checkout. So I thought I could use Stripe to set them up. Then depending on their monthly invoice I would charge using their preferred payment method.
Similar to how Google charges for their API usage.
So my website accesses Stripe to list all they payment methods tied to the customer account. But I am told I can't do this without iterating each and every method type separately.
undone nymph
When you used Checkout, which mode did you use? There are "payment" "setup" and "subscription"
I think Subscription?
grave pier
setup
Subscription I assumed is for fixed recurring amounts.
So, at the break of a new month. My website cooks all invoices, calls stripe and tries to make sense which method to use for charging.
Appearantly Stripe was not designed for this. And I am amazed how this strategy would be so unconventional that I can't really use it.
undone nymph
Hmm
How about just using Stripe Subscription mode with Checkout?
What prevent you to do that and make you need to cooks all invoices from your side?
sand pond
@grave pier would not the customer's preferred payment method be the one they setup on your platform? Perhaps that;s the confuision - customers do not have "generic" paymentMethods accross platforms - they have paymentMethods they setup with YOUR plATFORM
grave pier
I think I can make use of default_payment_method for this. I am gonna need it if there are more than one methods present.
undone nymph
When you finish the Checkout Session in setup mode, you can listen to webhook and set the default_payment_method, yes
grave pier
But let's say I wanna fallback to a secondary payment. Then I seem to have to iterate exactly each and every type to collect what's actually attached.
undone nymph
Do you predict that your customer could go to Checkout and setup multiple times?
Each time a Setup is done, let's save the payment method id, or its type to your database
when you cooks your Invoice, take it from your database based on your Customer Id
grave pier
I am predicting they could add a sepa_debit and a fallback to card. but depending on the region there may be more methods that can be used. Like iDeal for NL, sofort for Germany etc.
let's save the payment method id, or its type to your database when you cooks your Invoice,
Yeah I was hoping I could rely on Stripe being the master for all that.
undone nymph
I am stepping down for the day. If you have additional questions feel free to open a new thread!
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