Cannot use pending updates while swapping plans

[driesvints]

• Cashier Version: 12.0.0

Atm Cashier cannot use pending updates while swapping plans due to a bug in Stripe which prevents pending updates while deleting subscription items.

Reproducable by:

$subscription->pendingIfPaymentFails()->swap('new-plan');

This will delete the old subscription item and create a new one. Deleting subscription items isn't available atm in Stripe. I'm in contact with Stripe and following up.

[driesvints]

Reminder to self: re-send laravel/docs#6090 when this is resolved.

[driesvints]

Stripe let me know that they'd backlogged a fix for this so pending updates is unfortunately not going to happen atm for Cashier.

[Sans84]

@driesvints
Now using the Stripe API I can swap the plan using a pending update. But I still can't use $subscription->pendingIfPaymentFails()->swap('new-plan'). Now I get the error: "When payment_behavior is set to pending_if_incomplete, you can only pass supported params. items[0][tax_rates] is not supported."

[driesvints]

Unfortunately not... I filtered out the tax_rates from the request but I still get the error from this issue:

Stripe\Exception\InvalidRequestException: When payment_behavior is set to pending_if_incomplete, you can only pass supported params. items[1][deleted] is not supported.

[jamesh-purr]

Hey @driesvints

Why was this issue closed? The issue still exists when trying to use pending payments on subscription updates?

[driesvints]

It is currently not possible to use pending payments in cashier because of the above mentioned limitation in the Stripe API. We've closed this because we cannot pursue a fix but we'll keep this pinned in the repo.

[jamesh-purr]

Hey @driesvints

Thanks for getting back to me. I got this from stripe support which appears to be in their api?

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/pending-updates#canceling-changing

It just seems that updating subscription itself via api should be fine. The issue regarding tax rates I ran into just like above.

Would that not suggest this is an issue with the code structure/the way updates are processed in cashier than a stripe api issue? Apologies if I am misunderstanding what you mean by a stripe api limitation.

[driesvints]

Changing anything to the way stripe recommends will have a significant impact in the way Cashier works. We cannot do that. They need to support deleting subscription items during pending updates.

[jamesh-purr]

Hey @driesvints

Thats fair enough. Looks like i need to live through some more pain for the saas im doing haha. Thanks for getting back to me.