vpmragu-subscription paid_out_of_band | Stripe Developers | Page 1

woeful belfry Jul 22, 2022, 9:48 AM

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👋 happy to help

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I'm not sure to be honest, let me ask my colleagues and get back to you

desert rain Jul 22, 2022, 9:50 AM

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Thanks Tazan. To add more details for your reference. subscription.create params are below, params = {
customer: customerId,
items: [{
price: priceId,
}],
automatic_tax: { enabled: true },
expand: ['latest_invoice.total_tax_amounts.tax_rate'],
payment_behavior: 'default_incomplete',
collection_method: 'charge_automatically',
proration_behavior: 'none',
};

woeful belfry Jul 22, 2022, 9:52 AM

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and the customer doesn't really have a payment method attached to them?

desert rain Jul 22, 2022, 9:53 AM

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yes. Since we want to make the paid to the invoice thru out of band, we don't want to store the payment source.

mental bear Jul 22, 2022, 10:00 AM

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well after you run that code you can try calling https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/pay#pay_invoice-paid_out_of_band using the subscription.latest_invoice Id. Does that work?

desert rain Jul 22, 2022, 10:21 AM

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Yes, it is working.

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how can we handle this for the next cycle?

mental bear Jul 22, 2022, 10:22 AM

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well if you're using collection_method: 'charge_automatically', what will happen next cycle is we try to charge the customer's payment method. That will fail if they don't have one.

desert rain Jul 22, 2022, 10:23 AM

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How about invoice? will it get generated?

mental bear Jul 22, 2022, 10:23 AM

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yes an invoice will be generated

desert rain Jul 22, 2022, 10:23 AM

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what would be the invoice status? can i update after this fail?

mental bear Jul 22, 2022, 10:27 AM

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you can test this in a few ways and find all this out : https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing/

the statuses depends on the settings you have on https://dashboard.stripe.com/settings/billing/automatic for "managed failed payments". As far as I know the status is unpaid. You can't update the Invoice at that point as it's already finalised. You can try to pay it, including paying out of band.

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I don't really understand your use case. Are these recurring invoices ever going to be paid by the customer via a Stripe charge or is every invoice going to be "paid out of band"?

desert rain Jul 22, 2022, 10:29 AM

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Every invoices will be "paid out of band" only

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for the recurring payments, user might have a payment methods other than card(Stripe). So we want to keep it always as "paid out of band". planning to have a webhook on invoice.created and collect the payment from the customer automatically then mark it as paid

mental bear Jul 22, 2022, 10:37 AM

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hmm so you're using other payment processors and collect the payment elsewhere?

desert rain Jul 22, 2022, 11:01 AM

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What will be the next cycle if i'm using collection_method: 'send_invoice'?

mental bear Jul 22, 2022, 11:05 AM

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not sure I understand the question, can you elaborate?

desert rain Jul 22, 2022, 11:15 AM

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while creating a subscription, instead of charge collection_method: 'charge_automatically', if i'm using collection_method: 'send_invoice', what will happen in the next cycle. Here also, i don't have any saved payment source.

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