#stripe

Hi, I have a question here. Is a creation of a connectedCustomer account = validation of the customer's credit cards?

Zooz: could you clarify what you mean by a connected customer account? creating a customer on a connected account, or creating the connected account itself?

tr12, creating a customer on a connected account

Zooz: yeah, that will run a $0/1 auth on the customer's card

it works the same for customers on connected accounts as for customers on the platform account

tr12, with validation = false? without validation parameter? or with validation = true?

are you using shared customers?

Yes

tr12, how's that affecting?

and you're creating the customer on the platform account with validate=false, and then creating a customer on the connected account with validate=true?

I'm honestly not sure how validate interacts with shared customers in that scenario

remember that validate itself is not a documented parameter

you'd need to either email support about this, or wait until somebody who does know is online

hi, we'd like to apply a coupon on an existing subscription such that it applies the discount starting with the current month (giving the user a refund, since they were already charged the full price). How can that be done?

noam: refunds on subscriptions are a bit tricky

if you give a discount or credit, that would apply to the next period, instead of refunding now & charging full price on the next period

the easiest thing to do is to just give a partial discount on the charge that's already been processed

*partial refund

thanks tr12!

tr12, let's say I'm creating a connectedCustomer with validate = false, is it good enough?

Zooz: if at each step you're passing validate=false, then it should never run an auth

the bit I'm not clear about is if you pass validate=true sometimes, would it remember having validated the card, and only ever do it once?

noam: np!