Codex-invoice-advancement | Stripe Developers | Page 1

polar parcel Apr 5, 2022, 5:24 PM

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Hello! Do you ahve an example invoice I can take a look at

stray pendant Apr 5, 2022, 5:24 PM

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Yes, I can DM you

polar parcel Apr 5, 2022, 5:25 PM

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It's safe to share the Invoice ID (in_xxx) here

stray pendant Apr 5, 2022, 5:25 PM

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in_0Ke5L3uagHrUveG4NFxKyhFO

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We noticed that we were not receiving the invoice.payment_failed webhook event for some failed invoices. And it looks like the "auto_advance" field was changed, which may have been something to do with it?

polar parcel Apr 5, 2022, 5:28 PM

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For that particular invoice auto_advance was set to false because the Subscription that created it was canceled (which will set auto_advance: false for any open invoices on the subscription). Let me dig a bit more tosee why invoice.payment_failed wasn't sent

stray pendant Apr 5, 2022, 5:30 PM

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Ahh alright, I see.

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And yes, thank you, invoice.payment_failed is what we are trying to find out mainly

polar parcel Apr 5, 2022, 5:31 PM

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I also see why the invoice.payment_failed event wasn't sent for that invoice - the payment attempt that failed was triggere through a server-side call to the /v1/invoices/in_xxx/pay endpoint. We only send invoice.payment_failed events when payment fails as part of the payment attempts that stripe automatically makes (like during subscription renewal or payment retries).

stray pendant Apr 5, 2022, 5:33 PM

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Oh I see. It does look like the card was declined, and it was a first-time subscription purchase (not a renewal)

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So then invoice.payment_failed is only applicable to renewal events?

polar parcel Apr 5, 2022, 5:38 PM

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Just went and double checked - so you can also get the invoice.payment_failed event from subscription creation failure. It's just the explicit requests to the "pay invoice" endpoint that won't trigger the event

stray pendant Apr 5, 2022, 5:49 PM

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Is the "pay invoice" endpoint being triggered on Stripe's side automatically?

polar parcel Apr 5, 2022, 5:50 PM

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No, the pay invoice endpoint is something that you're specifically hitting. We pay invoices through other internal engines, not through the external "pay invoice" endpoint

stray pendant Apr 5, 2022, 5:53 PM

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Alright, I see. Is there any way to trigger invoice.payment_failed in this case, when our side hits the /pay endpoint?

polar parcel Apr 5, 2022, 5:54 PM

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No, there isn't any way for you to force an invoice.payment_failed event to be triggered - but it should still trigger a payment_intent.payment_failed event if that helps. You should also know from the response back from stripe whether the payment failed or not

stray pendant Apr 5, 2022, 5:56 PM

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That's true. Then in what case does invoice.payment_failed event send from subscription creation failure?

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As in, if the payment intent succeeds, how can the invoice fail? (and then send that webhook)?

polar parcel Apr 5, 2022, 5:59 PM

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If the payment intent is successful there's no way for the invoice to fail

stray pendant Apr 5, 2022, 6:03 PM

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polar parcel Just went and double checked - so you can also get the `invoice.payment_failed` ...

Sorry, I meant this instance you mentioned

polar parcel Apr 5, 2022, 6:14 PM

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Can you rephrase your question - I think I'm not understanding exactly what you're trying to ask, so rephrasing it may help

stray pendant Apr 5, 2022, 6:18 PM

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Yes, sorry. You mentioned that "you can also get the invoice.payment_failed event from subscription creation failure"

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If the payment intent is successful, what cases can the subscription creation fail?

polar parcel Apr 5, 2022, 6:27 PM

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If the paymet intent is successful that means the subscription was also successfully created. What I meant is that during subscription creation if things like authentication failed, or the card was declined, you'd get both a invoice.payment_failed and a payment_intent.payment_failed event. Does that make sense?

stray pendant Apr 5, 2022, 6:37 PM

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Ahh okay, that makes sense. Thanks for all your help

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