If paying for an API Pricing plan, it states the below:
"Choose how many documents you need to send each month, starting with 100/month"
I am just looking for some clarification on what will decrement the number of 100 in the above case.
Is it only when create a brand new envelope?
If an API call is done to manually resend an existing Envelope with Documents via email, will this decrement the monthly count ?
Thanks
Yes, correct, only new envelopes
No, it won't. An envelope is an envelope and has a unique identifier. That cannot be decremented because some activity was done on it.
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I'm trying to integrate the Docusign eSignature API with Stripe.
I've created a Quickstart application and have successfully run through the process, signing the contract and making a test payment.
However, I noticed that the payment in Stripe does not have a customer object attached to it:
I'd like to know if it's possible to specify a customerId, or create one as part of the process. I did notice that the PaymentDetails constructor accepts a customerId parameter, but I could not see any relevant documentation for this, and specifying it in my request didn't seem to make any difference.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
Dan,
For regular payments that are one time and right away - DocuSign will not create a customer record. This is "by design" and is meant to support quick payments without any customer record.
You can set recurring/future payments and then you'll get customer records when you set the gateway. If you want, your recurring payment or future payment can be just one time in the near future and then you can achieve what you want and get a customer record.
I would like to see how I can send subscription invoices with auto charge.
From the Invoice API, billing can be either set to charge automatically or send to customers for manual payment.
But I want to charge my customers automatically and send them the invoices. It seems that it's a common option in Saas monthly subscription. Not sure how I can achieve it.
I've finished creating a subscription for a customer. But the record and invoice are only on the Stripe dashboard.
One way I thought of is to get the invoice pdf file from API and send them on my own. I am using Python / Django now.
Can someone help me out?
There are 2 ways to go about it:
1) Send the invoice with the send_invoice (see the Python example). It will know that the payment was already settled for that invoice based on the invoice ID.
2) Add a webhook endpoint to your Django app and subscribe to the webhook events invoice.created, invoice.finalized, invoice.sent, invoice.payment_succeeded. This way though you need to create your own template (email or PDF up to you)
I need to be able to handle two types of subscriptions that Stripe doesn't seem to support out of the box:
A lifetime subscription
A two-year subscription
Lifetime subscription is easy. I'll just create a single charge and be done with it. It would've been nice to have a subscription record that I could check for validity.
Two-year subscription is where I am not sure what to do. I figure I'd create a one year subscription (current max in Stripe) and will have to use web hooks for when a new invoice will be generated. What would be the proper way of cancelling an upcoming charge? I am also worried that customers will receive an email alerting them for an upcoming charge in the middle of the period. Any way to avoid this?
Thanks in advance!
Stripe's subscriptions do not have a set end date. The 1 year maximum that you mention is the maximum interval, i.e. the frequency at which the customer will be billed.
If you want to end a subscription after a set number of payments, your best bet is to use webhooks to count the number of successful payments (via the invoice.payment_succeeded events) and cancel the subscription when the desired number of payments has been reached.
Stripe does not send emails to customers about upcoming charges. It can optionally send email receipts after a charge is created, but you can disable this from your dashboard.
i have a use case where its possible for a user to accumulate multiple unpaid invoices with a stripe subscription (which would be marked as overdue). The only way i see to pay the invoices via the API would be to pay each one as a separate manual invoice payment (thus producing X lines items on a users credit card).
Is there any way to combine all unpaid invoices into one payment ?
It's not something that the Stripe API supports. The best solution would be to create a one-time charge for the total amount of all the invoices and then mark each invoice as forgiven.
You could also create multiple invoice items, one for each invoice with a clear description and amount and then invoice the list so that your customer knows what he's paying for.
From the Stripe docs, it suggests that you can batch multiple transactions together but only if the customer has a payment method saved (and it still may require some custom programming to get it working the way you want):
https://support.stripe.com/questions/batch-multiple-transactions-from-one-customer-into-a-single-charge
Stripe docs also offers this option as well, on combining multiple products into one subscription:
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/multiple
Yes, You can combine multiple invoices using pass stripe customer id in to
/Stripe/Invoices::retrieve({customer_id});
You can get all the invoice of the customer, you can also search date wise invoices using a function.
I am new to braintree and I am implementing a braintree payment gateway for my nodeJs app. I have few concerns when it come to application testing.
How can I change the period of one billing cycle. Currently its limited to minimum of 1 month. If it is not changeable what is the workaround for testing multiple billing cycle transactions ??
PS: I did refer to this how-can-i-change-subscription-period-on-braintree but a valid answer can not be found.
My next question is related to the webhooks in Braintree. When a webhook is triggered for successful charge for subscription it returns a Subscription object which a transaction array which includes all the transactions for that subscription. Is there a way to filter out the data for the transaction which the webhook was triggered for ? It says the array is sorted. Does that mean that 0th position of the transaction array is the last transaction made ??
Braintree Subscription object reference
Since the test environment does not let us change the billing cycle time I have to wait a month to test this. And if there is a better way to do handle this please advice me on it.
Full disclosure: I work at Braintree. If you have any further questions, feel free to contact support.
It’s not possible to create a subscription billing period shorter than a month in sandbox or production. The previous answer linked in your question — creating a subscription with a 1-day trial period — is a good way to test subscription billing transactions.
The array of transactions inside a subscription object is sorted by creation date with most recent first, so the first transaction within a subscription returned in a webhook notification will be the transaction that triggered the webhook.
You can also take a look at our webhooks testing page for examples of how to generate sample webhook notifications.