#Robert-Ibracadabra - live webhook test
spark wing
Can you rephrase that a bit? I am not sure I understand. Are you looking to resend an event to one of your live endpoints or one of your test ones?
wide beacon
Hello, I am testing the actual webhook responses via ngrok on my local environment triggerring webhooks in development mode (paying the subscription)
I can test the invoice.payment_succeeded event this way
and I see the real data received
but for the invoice.payment_failed what do I need to do?
I need to assign a card
that has no funds available for example?
spark wing
Ah gotcha. I think we have a card for that, let me find it
wide beacon
I believe there is a card for that
spark wing
We have a card that you can use for this that has a description of "Decline after attaching" on this page https://stripe.com/docs/testing
wide beacon
but I need to change it somehow
spark wing
You should be able to set that number in the dashboard
That card will not fail at first but will fail when there is a subscription cycle
wide beacon
Oh so i can use that through normal flow and when I trigger it again for subscription it should fail
spark wing
Correct
wide beacon
Ok I just tried it and It triggered my handlePaymentThatRequiresCustomerAction 🙂 I am using the old flow (because of customer requirements).
(In frontend)
spark wing
Nice! Is the rest of your test going smoothly so far?
wide beacon
Well I need to check how to handle it 🙂
Because It should have completed
Well it gets blocked by handleRequiresPaymentMethod
spark wing
Ah I see, does failing upfront in your test not create the invoice.payment_failed event?
wide beacon
Yes it fails in the frontend
I did not check webhook
need to see
Oh
I got the failed event as well
Nice!
Thank you very much!
Another thing that I am curious about is how do i differentiate between the normal flow of a subscription and webhooks?
I think normally on the first payment I should not trigger the webhooks
Maybe I query firestore to check if it already exists
or something simmilar
If I do and I need to await it wouldn;t this affect the response time required for 200 to be sent back from the webhook :(?
spark wing
The first payment will trigger a webhook. You will want to check the billing_reason property on the Invoice. If you do not have a free trial, the first reason will be subscription_create and it will be subscription_cycle for all payments afterward https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-billing_reason