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How can I find out the status of a statement in chargify? I.e. if it is paid of not?

How can I find out the status of a statement in chargify? I.e. if it is paid of not?

I found this documentation. It says:

Chargify Statements give you and your customers a breakdown of Subscription charges, payments, credits, and activity on a period-by-period basis. A Statement is similar to an “Invoice” because it is marked as currently paid or unpaid. Statements display all account activity for a specific usage period.

So, I would expect there to be a marking field which would tell me if the statement is paid, but I can not find such field. I tried to find the field in the documentation I linked above and in the query result I have in my system.

In my system I tried to rely on the ending_balance_in_cents field. I.e. when it is 0 I deem the statement as paid, otherwise as unpaid. But the problem is that the Chargify does not think the same way. It has the following statement:

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As you can see the statement is Paid, even though the Ending Balance is not 0.

Solution

  • It looks like the payment came in after the statement closed. Try looking at the settled_at date and see if that helps determine if the statement is now paid.

    https://reference.chargify.com/v1/statements/statements-intro#statement-output-attributes