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Stripe automatic top-up failed due to currency conflict

A bug in Stripe's automatic top-up feature prevented it from functioning due to a currency mismatch between invoices and line items. While manual top-ups worked because they derived currency from line items, automatic top-ups failed because they defaulted to the customer's or account's currency (EUR) instead of the line item's currency (USD). This issue, present since the feature's release, was only discovered through a specific test harness designed to validate the full payment path against Stripe's test mode. AI

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Stripe automatic top-up failed due to currency conflict

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Multigrid ·

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    <p>Automatic top-up — the feature that charges a saved card when a customer’s balance falls below their threshold — could never have succeeded for anybody. The invoice was constructed in the wrong currency, and every attempt would have failed in a way that told the customer their…