#stripe

hello, I had a quick question about authorizing and capture charges

capturing*

hey! what's your question? I might have a quick answer

so I found the documentation that says the authorization will essentially be thrown out after 7 days if no action is taking

we anticipate situations in which we might want to extend that period

is this possible?

not possible no. That's a bank limitation. You would have to create a new authorization

can that be done with information provided in the previous charge object?

or do you need the cc# all over again?

if you have saved the card on a customer you can just charge their card again

hello

okay that makes sense

i am looking for help with setting up stripe to support bi-weekly subscriptions

can anyone help?

Damon_ : you simply have to create a plan that has an interval of 2 weeks

@koopajah thank you

Ive been waiting on stripe email support for a while, so I thought I'd ask here. I'm building a platform integration using Stripe connect, and have implemented this flow: users register as vendors, where the get sent to stripe to connect, then once connected we store their stripe account id in their user record

wen a user then purchases soemthing from a vendorm, we use stripe elemenst to tokenize the cc enfo, then on the server build a destination charge using the vendors account id, and the token as the source

i keep getting invalid token replies from stripe, and when i emailed support, i got this: "After doing some research, I was able to find that the request and the token are being created on 2 completely different Stripe accounts. This would be 1 of the major factors of why the error is coming up"

I have verified the4 SK_test and PK_test keys are both from the proper platform account, so I have no idea what could be mismatched

we're in test mode, and im using a test stripe debit card

on the client side, i initialize stripe using the pblishibale key

and on the charge (server side) i initialize stripe using the matching test secret key

so what could be '2 completely different Stripe accounts'?

regreddit : do you explicitly see the token creation in your logs in your platform? I bet you do not because the token is created with the wrong key

on the client side, the call to stripe.createToken returns a valid token object

its valid in that the function returns without error, so I assume that means the token is vald?

s/vald/valid/

the token is valid, but likely created with a pk_test_XXXX from a *different Stripe account*

that's why I'm asking you to just look at your logs

https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs you likely see the charge error and not the token creation

looking now

hmmm, yeah i just see all the failed charges, no tokens - looking at the PK one more time - ive compared them no less than 100 times in the past 24 hours :)

between : https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys and what I have stored in my client side code

you're likely looking at the wrong code or did not push the new code. This is 100% the issue

just look in the browser right click and check the source and you'll see the wrong key hardcoded somewhere

Hi. When I delete a custom account, is there no log-entry in my Stripe dashboard?

that's expected, it would be on the connected account instead (to which you don't have access anymore)

Ah ok

I use to read the answer from Stripe: $account->deleted;

I gives me the value "1"

so deleted is true

but I can delete test accounts at any time

why couldn't you?

on a live account which has still money on it I would get "0"?

no you would not, you would get an error when calling the API

Or would there be a message or an error or something?

ah, just found it. i was initializing stripe on the client with: this.stripe = Stripe(this.stripe_key, { stripeAccount: this.stripeacct }); where stripeAccount is he account of the destination account that I'm making the charge on behalf of

that must be wroing

Oh, ok

regreddit : correct, if you're using destination charges you need to remove the stripeAccount part

but the docs only say: stripeAccount - Connect only. Specifying a connected account ID (e.g., acct_24BFMpJ1svR5A89k) will allow you to perform actions on behalf of that account.

yeah, i did and that worked

the docs dont really say why or when to add that

thanks

something like this: InvalidArgumentException: You cannot set 'id'to an empty string. We interpret empty strings as NULL in requests. You may set obj->id = NULL to delete the property in Stripe\StripeObject->__set() ??

regreddit : you need that when you want the token on the connected account

Dirkozoid : not sure where that comes from but you're likely passing an invalid value

This comes from a page which deletes custom accounts. When I go on to this page with an acct_ID set, I get this error. This is ok. But I am not sure what to do if a user tries to delete his account while having money on it

koopajah, ok that makes sense

Dirkozoid : you need to prevent them from doing so until their balance is at -

I thought I would get a "FALSE" or "0" and could print a message then

at 0

no you get an exception and you catch it as any other exception and then display a message

Do I have to check bank_account object for their balance=

?

no you have to check the Stripe account's balance, not their bank account: https://stripe.com/docs/api#retrieve_balance

you can't just close their account if they have $10k left to be paid

of $3k that they owe you

Yes, but some users could try that

haha

sure but it's on you to avoid it. Detect their balance and explain why you can't instead of deleting the account

Ok, I understand. Than kyou!

\Stripe\Balance::retrieve(CAN I PUT THE acct_ID HERE?);

easiest solution is to just try it really but yes :)

yes, I know I am lazy. Why shouldn't it work. \Account::retrieve("acct_1ANqw6CcMfpl2s1J"); works the same, but it is also told in the docs explicitly

I noticed the following event today in my dashboard: 1. User signed up for a subscription near the end of the month 2. They were charged a prorated amount of $0.08 3. Invoice was generated and paid 4. Subscription renewed today and the $0.08 was included on the starting balance for the renewed subscription event

Does Stripe auto move small charges forward to subscriptions that are about to renew? Or did I setup something incorrectly?

_pete_ : that's because $0.08 is below our minimum amount of $0.50 so it can't be charged and is just bundled on their next charge

@koopajah: Great! I was worried something was wrong hahaha

Hey so there's been a lot of additions to the dashboard lately but there seems to be no API support for them. Things like invoice email, invoice CC, notes on payments and refunds?

the first 2 definitely have an API, the latter does not

koopajah: where is that api? I tried in test mode, I updated a customer with a new invoice email and no event was triggered

I'm not sure what you're referring to exactly so maybe I'm misunderstanding. For this one I'll ask you to talk to our support team to be safe in case your account is in a beta :)

No emails are sent in test mode too

At least not through the api

hi

does anyone know if stripe takes a fee when changing currencies?

There a 2% foreign exchange fee

koopajah: oops, you're right, i seem to be in beta

thanks

It doesn't work with the acct_ID? I have to set another Secret_Key?

Dirkozoid : it 100% works with the account id and you're likely doing something else

I changed the word "Account" to "Balance" in my test file

gotcha. then I'm the one that's wrong!

$account = \Stripe\Balance::retrieve(); works $account = \Stripe\Balance::retrieve("acct_ID"); does not

try passing https://stripe.com/docs/connect/authentication#... and see if that fixes it

Oh

Really?