#whattrivia-invoice-creation
trim sluice
I run events. When an event closes, i create an invoice item. Some customers want to be billed weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. I have a service that comes through and invoices the pending invoice_items based on that schedule. When it does that, if they have a default credit card on their account, that customer has elected to not be invoiced, they just want to be charged and get a receipt. If they are new, haven't set up a credit card, or some want to manually pay anyway, i want to send them an invoice.
so it seems like i have to change the 'collection_method' if they have a card on file or not. I was trying to read their default_source on their customer object and figure it out that way. If they stored a credit card as their default payment method, i do charge_automatically, if not, i do send_invoice
cedar slate
I'd recommend using invoice_settings[default_payment_method] on Customer in that case not default_source (deprecated for multiple years). Just be explicit when they attach their payment method details and save it in the settings and then use this to decide how to invoice
Does that make sense?
trim sluice
awesome. I'll research that. Thanks for the help @cedar slate !