Reproducing the "CC denied charge" error

[Alex Wait]

As we grow subfund.me into a more complete platform we're occasionally running into the many many errors & edge cases a payment processor integrated platform runs into:

The latest for us is a CC working fine but for some reason or another payment intent fails.

So far I've only seen them under the "payment_intent.payment_failed" event.

What I'm not sure is how to trigger this event for some integration test (by hand testing) using the stripe.com dashboard. Does anyone know if there is a way to repo errors like this in the dashboard?

 The bank returned the decline code `do_not_honor`

This is the first time I've not been able to easily repo a use case in the dashboard for final QA testing so I'm sure there's a way that I just haven't found yet.

Thanks!

Alex Wait

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[Remi J.]

Hello Alex,

We don't have a test card specific for the `do_not_honor` decline code today. We have a few test cards for other decline codes such as `insufficient_funds` though. Overall, all decline codes behave similarly so you would handle `do_not_honor` mostly the same way as `insufficient_funds`. Your code would mostly switch on `decline_code` as needed. There are too many decline codes for us to add a test card for every single one but you could mock the API to return a specific decline code to test your code for example

I hope this helps!

Remi

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/testing#cards-responses

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[Alex Wait]

Thanks Remi!

I totally forgot there was a set of test cards.

I tried using the one you suggested and got this

Which is great for certain use cases. 

What I need to properly test and account for is when the card works and pays out the first invoice but subsequent invoices are declined (for a subscription)

I need to handle this buy probably emailing the user and saying "you need to update your card my man" and then reactivate their subs.

Is this something that's supported?

Alex

[Remi J.]

Hello,

We have a test card explicitly for this and we cover this in more details here [1]. The idea is to add the card 4000 0000 0000 0341 to a customer which will then automatically fail the next payment. You put the Subscription on a trial period for a few minutes and wait for it to renew. When the trial ends, it starts a new period with its first invoice and it simulates the subscription renewing. You can pay the invoice via the API and you'll see it fail!

Hope this helps!

Remi

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing#payment-failures