#starinje - Connect
hasty brook
Hi 👋
Is this verification step supported by the Stripe Invoicing flow?
This is completely different from Invoicing
zenith lion
so there is no way to do address verification for Stripe Invoice payments?
hasty brook
Connect account verification is a separate requirement from Invoicing AFAIK
What is your actual question about. Connect? or Invoicing?
zenith lion
More specifically Invoices. We generate a Stripe Invoice via the API and send to the customer for payment. Im wondering if there is a way to verify the customers address against the address on file with the card provider.
hasty brook
Okay. that gives me some more details. thanks
So you are configuring your invoice to collect customer address info?
zenith lion
Not currently, but we could enable that if needed
hasty brook
AFAIK there isn't a way to do this via the APIs
But
You might look into Radar rules to see if you can do some address validation that way
zenith lion
ok yes I took a look into the rules and that seems like the right approach. What im not clear on is where the Customers address is collected.
flat carbon
Hi there 👋 jumping in as my teammate needed to step away. A little bit of insight into the underpinnings of an Invoice. An Invoice will create a Payment Intent for processing its payment, and that intent will have an underlying Charge object.
The verification check results can be found either on those Charges:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/charges/object#charge_object-payment_method_details-card-checks
Or directly on the associated Payment Method:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_methods/object#payment_method_object-card-checks
And the billing_details on the Payment Method is where the information that is sent for validation comes from:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_methods/object#payment_method_object-billing_details
zenith lion
ok that makes sense, since that happens under the hood, does stripe pull that billing_details data from the customer object?
IE would we need to make sure that when we create the customer, we provide the address data specified here: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/create
flat carbon
I'm not 100% certain off the top of my head, but I don't think it relies on the address on the Customer as in practice a person could have payment methods with different billing addresses, so I'm pretty sure it pulls from the billing_details on the Payment Method.
flat carbon
Apologies for the delay, I just finished running a test case that confirmed the address information that is validated is pulled from the billing_details on the Payment Method, and is not inherited from the customer record.
zenith lion
ok so how would we set that though when creating an invoice?
I dont see that as a parameter on the create invoice endpoint: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/create
flat carbon
You won't when you're creating the Invoice, instead they would be provided when creating the Payment Method if you're creating that ahead of time. Are you creating a Payment Method for the Customer before creating the Invoice, or are you letting your customers use the hosted invoice page to submit their payment details?
zenith lion
ahh yes thats the rub - were using the hosted invoice page
flat carbon
Gotcha, I don't think there is a way to force that page to collect billing address information, but am double checking that.
zenith lion
Yeah thats what made me think that the address is being set from the customer address: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-customer_address
flat carbon
Just ran through using a hosted invoice page, and the payment method that it created was created without a billing address, so it doesn't look like it inherits the address from the customer and therefore doesn't do any address validation.
zenith lion
ok got it, I appreciate all of the help!
flat carbon
Any time!