[BUG] Can't create DRAFT Stripe Invoice

[MartinMalinda]

With Stripe SDK, I'm able to create an invoice that has no line items:

const invoice = await stripeRequest('invoices', {
  customer: customerId,
  due_date: nowPlus30minutes,
  collection_method: 'send_invoice',
});

That's because I pass collection_method: 'send_invoice' and future due_date.

If I try to replicate the same via Pipedream action I get: Nothing to invoice for customer

I suspect some prop might not get passed well? Or perhaps there's something about invoices and Stripe API I don't understand well enough yet.

[MartinMalinda]

In my Connect code I'm trying to invoke the action as

      const invoiceResponse = await pd.runAction({
        externalUserId,
        actionId: "stripe-create-invoice",
        configuredProps: {
          app: {
            authProvisionId: stripeAccount.account_id,
          },
          customer: customerId,
          collection_method: "send_invoice",
          auto_advance: false,
          description: `Invoice for Airtable record ${recordId}`,
          days_until_due: 30,
          metadata: {
            airtableRecordId: recordId,
          },
        },
      });

With same error

[MartinMalinda]

This might be specific to days_until_due behaving differently than due_date maybe.

[vunguyenhung]

Hey @MartinMalinda, even when I add custom code to use due_date (with Stripe SDK), the Stripe SDK still shows error Nothing to invoice for customer (image below). Could you share the result when you execute the Stripe SDK on your side for comparision?

[MartinMalinda]

@vunguyenhung It passes for me with a custom request:

import stripe from 'stripe'

export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    stripe: {
      type: "app",
      app: "stripe",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    const key = this.stripe.$auth.api_key;
    async function stripeRequest(endpoint, params) {

      const url = `https://api.stripe.com/v1/${endpoint}`;
      // Stripe expects URL-encoded form data
      const body = new URLSearchParams(params);
      
      const response = await fetch(url, {
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
          'Authorization': `Bearer ${key}`,
          'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
        },
        body: body.toString()
      });
  
      if (!response.ok) {
        const errorData = await response.json();
        console.error(`Stripe API error: ${errorData.error.message}`);
      }
      
      return response.json();
    }
    
    const nowPlus30minutes = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000) + 1800;
    const invoice = await stripeRequest('invoices', {
      customer: 'cus_S7ycYnotKQzMFX',
      due_date: nowPlus30minutes,
      collection_method: 'send_invoice',
    });
    console.log('Invoice created:', invoice.id);

    // return await client.accounts.list({ limit: 1 })
  },
})

I'll try to do it via SDK now too

[MartinMalinda]

@vunguyenhung

This passes for me also:

import stripe from 'stripe'

export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    stripe: {
      type: "app",
      app: "stripe",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    const key = this.stripe.$auth.api_key;
    const nowPlus30minutes = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000) + 1800;
    const client = stripe(this.stripe.$auth.api_key);
    const invoice = await client.invoices.create({
      customer: 'cus_S7ycYnotKQzMFX',
      due_date: nowPlus30minutes,
      collection_method: 'send_invoice',
    });
    console.log(invoice);
  },
})

[MartinMalinda]

@vunguyenhung it seems to be connected to

this.stripe.sdk()

if stripe SDK is imported directly:

import stripeSDK from 'stripe';

it works

maybe this.stripe.sdk() has some pre-defined defaults that are causing the problem here?

here I tried both approaches side by side

import stripe from "@pipedream/stripe"
import stripeSDK from 'stripe';

export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    stripe,
    customer: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Customer ID",
      description: "The ID of the customer to create an invoice for",
      async options() {
        const customers = await this.stripe.sdk().customers.list({
          limit: 100,
        })
        return customers.data.map(customer => ({
          label: `${customer.name || customer.email || customer.id}`,
          value: customer.id
        }))
      }
    },
    collection_method: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Collection Method",
      description: "How to collect payment for this invoice",
      options: [
        "charge_automatically",
        "send_invoice"
      ],
      default: "charge_automatically"
    },
    dueDate: {
      type: "integer",
      label: "Due Date",
      optional: true
    },
    description: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Description",
      description: "An arbitrary string to attach to the invoice. Often useful for displaying to users.",
      optional: true
    }
  },
  async run({ steps, $ }) {
    const params = {
      customer: this.customer,
      collection_method: this.collection_method,
      // description: this.description
    }

    if (this.collection_method === "send_invoice" && this.dueDate) {
      params.due_date = this.dueDate
    }

    console.log(params);

    const nowPlus30minutes = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000) + 1800;
   // this.stripe.sdk()
    try {
        console.log('this.stripe.sdk() SDK test');
       const invoice = await this.stripe.sdk().invoices.create(params); 
      console.log(invoice);
    } catch (e) {
      console.error('Stripe SDK error', e);
    }

    // SDK imported directly
     const client = stripeSDK(this.stripe.$auth.api_key);
     const invoice = await client.invoices.create(params);
    console.log(invoice);


    return await this.stripe.sdk().invoices.create(params)
  }
})

[vunguyenhung]

Got it @MartinMalinda. Thank you so much for providing us the context. I've added the ticket to Pipedream prioritized backlog