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solid goblet Jun 22, 2022, 4:17 PM

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Hi there! What do you mean by paused payments, exactly?

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Like when your account is disabled?

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 4:17 PM

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pause payment collection under subscriptions

solid goblet Jun 22, 2022, 4:18 PM

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Thanks

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 4:18 PM

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there are trials too where in the past they were used for pauses

solid goblet Jun 22, 2022, 4:18 PM

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Yes customer.subscription.updated is what you want.

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 4:18 PM

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ok and then what do i look for to indicate pause?

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This event works for both trials and pauses?

solid goblet Jun 22, 2022, 4:19 PM

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For pauses you look at the pause_collection hash: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-pause_collection. For trials, you look at the status of the Sub which will be trialing

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 4:19 PM

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Then there is Pause payment collection for all existing subscriptions under dashboard.stripe.com/settings/billing/automatic

solid goblet Jun 22, 2022, 4:20 PM

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Sure, that will set all Subs to be paused.

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 4:21 PM

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ok so when i pause i look for if the hash is not none. Then when the pause hash is none then reactivate membership for example?

solid goblet Jun 22, 2022, 4:22 PM

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Yep, and you may want to check the status as well when it unpauses if you only want to provision when the Sub has a certain status

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But that part is up to you.

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Once pause_collection is null, then you will know it is unpaused.

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 4:23 PM

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what status do you recommend?

solid goblet Jun 22, 2022, 4:23 PM

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Depends... most folks use active but you can also still provision when the Sub is past_due if you still expect future payment for the unpaid invoice depending on your product.

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That part is really up to you

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 4:24 PM

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ok

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another webhook event i am looking for is when i make a subscription for the first time would it be customer.subscription.created ?

solid goblet Jun 22, 2022, 4:30 PM

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Yep. If you haven't taken a look at https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks#events that lays out info on a bunch of the relevant events you'll want.

Using webhooks with subscriptions

Learn to use webhooks to receive notifications of subscription activity.

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 4:31 PM

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ok thanks

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if i have missing ids or something do you recommend using try except statements or something else?

solid goblet Jun 22, 2022, 4:37 PM

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Yep. We talk about error handling here: https://stripe.com/docs/error-handling. Generally wrapping things in try catch is recommended.

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 4:50 PM

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thanks

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is there a way to test disputes with ACH/

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I also noticed a lot of the docs now for python use json / jsonify why is that?

solid goblet Jun 22, 2022, 5:06 PM

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You can see our test bank account numbers here: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/ach-debit/accept-a-payment?platform=web&ui=checkout#test-account-numbers

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The debitNotAuthorized account number is for testing disputes

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I'm not a python dev so I can't really speak to exactly why that method is recommended.

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 5:18 PM

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ok no worries about the python thing

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thank you i'll try that for the ach

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what were to happen if lets say i pause everybody and i have a webhook for that, would that be problematic if everybody gets paused at the same time?

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If i were to change my database during 'checkout.session.completed to a paid membership would there be a conflict if i do the same thing of customer.subscription.created? They are 2 separate events even though they both make a subscription?

sharp stratus Jun 22, 2022, 5:35 PM

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If i were to change my database during 'checkout.session.completed to a paid membership would there be a conflict if i do the same thing of customer.subscription.created?
When you say "do the same thing" do you mean also update the database on the customer.subscription.created? If so, what's the point? What are you updating?

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 5:37 PM

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when completing the checkout, behind the scenes a subscription gets created

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but if i make another separate customer.subscription.created event, will they conflict?

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I am updating my database for when someone pays via checkout or if someone on stripe manually adds a subscription, then also update my db

sharp stratus Jun 22, 2022, 5:48 PM

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The events you mentioned are entirely separate from each other. No matter where the subscription is created (e.g. Checkout or elsewhere), it will send the customer.subscription.created event. What specifically are you updating in the DB?

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 5:49 PM

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if the customer is paid or free

sharp stratus Jun 22, 2022, 5:59 PM

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If both events are referencing the same Subscription and Customer, then you shouldn't need to worry about one overwriting the other, because they should both reference the same objects (unless you change something on them between events)

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 6:00 PM

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ok i'll give it a try and see what happens

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 6:18 PM

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"pause_collection": {
"behavior": "keep_as_draft",
"resumes_at": null
},

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That is what happens when i pause a subscription. What exactly do I use here in my if statement?

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event.data.object.pause_collection.behavior == keep_as_draft ?

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event.data.object.pause_collection != None ?

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This is for the event.type == 'customer.subscription.updated':

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nevermind i see it is null/None

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if i unpause

sharp stratus Jun 22, 2022, 6:24 PM

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Alright. Is there an outstanding question here? Or did you unblock yourself?

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 6:24 PM

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no i should be ok now sorry

sharp stratus Jun 22, 2022, 6:32 PM

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It's all good! I just want to make sure that I'm not overlooking anything and that you're set 😄

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 6:33 PM

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"latest_invoice": "in_1LDXIQIeTJrsS1reCATgv4hf" from the subscription.updated event... is that referring to what may have already been paid?

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API says The most recent invoice this subscription has generated.

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so the one at the top of the invoices section of the customer page

sharp stratus Jun 22, 2022, 6:34 PM

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It will be the most recent Invoice that was created. It might be paid, or unpaid.

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 6:34 PM

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ok thanks

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i think bismark may have given the wrong info before?

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whenever i pause i see pause_collection has data and whenever i unpause i see pause_collection None

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oh wait sorry

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i keep talking to myself today he was right he said not none

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 7:02 PM

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How come event.data.object.items.data[0].price.id is not working on customer.subscription.updated

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AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'data'

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 7:19 PM

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This works though - event.data.object.plan.id. In the past the line above has worked for me

grand summit Jun 22, 2022, 7:21 PM

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That is actually a quirk of Python itself

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Can you try the same thing but use event.data.object['items'].data[0].price.id instead?

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Essentially python is mixing up the items field with the items() function of the object. I know the one workaround of what I just sent, I forget if there is another way to specify what you are looking for here

scenic prairie Jun 22, 2022, 7:24 PM

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ooh man that makes a lot of sense let me try

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yes that worked thank you

grand summit Jun 22, 2022, 7:31 PM

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Great to hear!

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