Stripe: How to update an invoice created from a subscription checkout session?

Question

I am creating a subscription from a Stripe checkout session. After a customer goes through the checkout session, an invoice is then created and triggers invoice.created. On this event, I have a webhook that is attempting to update the invoice, however, by the time it gets here, the invoice is already set to finalized and I cannot update it.

How do I get around this?

Answer 1

I contacted Stripe support and their recommendation (for our situation) is to give the subscription a trial period and then set the trial end to a few minutes from that point in time so that the invoice can go through each event properly.