We provide to a bunch of customers a website so that their customers can make a booking and purchase services online using Stripe. I am in the process of Internationalizing but I have hit a barrier where some currencies are not valid for Stripe and we don't find out until we attempt to make the payment. I have tried to find a way of retrieving a list of valid currencies from Stripe so that our software can check against it before offering the option to purchase services and I can't find anything like that.
Does anybody know of a solution for automating the process?
I am curious to hear how other people have tackled this problem.
You can use country_specs endpoint - https://stripe.com/docs/api/country_specs
CountrySpecService is available in Stripe.NET and returns this kind of objects (see model below). I think you are looking for SupportedBankAccountCurrencies or SupportedPaymentCurrencies
// File generated from our OpenAPI spec
namespace Stripe
{
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
/// <summary>
/// Stripe needs to collect certain pieces of information about each account created. These
/// requirements can differ depending on the account's country. The Country Specs API makes
/// these rules available to your integration.
///
/// You can also view the information from this API call as <a
/// href="https://stripe.com/docs/connect/required-verification-information">an online
/// guide</a>.
/// </summary>
public class CountrySpec : StripeEntity<CountrySpec>, IHasId, IHasObject
{
/// <summary>
/// Unique identifier for the object. Represented as the ISO country code for this country.
/// </summary>
[JsonProperty("id")]
public string Id { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value.
/// </summary>
[JsonProperty("object")]
public string Object { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// The default currency for this country. This applies to both payment methods and bank
/// accounts.
/// </summary>
[JsonProperty("default_currency")]
public string DefaultCurrency { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// Currencies that can be accepted in the specific country (for transfers).
/// </summary>
[JsonProperty("supported_bank_account_currencies")]
public Dictionary<string, List<string>> SupportedBankAccountCurrencies { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// Currencies that can be accepted in the specified country (for payments).
/// </summary>
[JsonProperty("supported_payment_currencies")]
public List<string> SupportedPaymentCurrencies { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// Payment methods available in the specified country. You may need to enable some payment
/// methods (e.g., <a href="https://stripe.com/docs/ach">ACH</a>) on your account before
/// they appear in this list. The <c>stripe</c> payment method refers to <a
/// href="https://stripe.com/docs/connect/destination-charges">charging through your
/// platform</a>.
/// </summary>
[JsonProperty("supported_payment_methods")]
public List<string> SupportedPaymentMethods { get; set; }
/// <summary>
/// Countries that can accept transfers from the specified country.
/// </summary>
[JsonProperty("supported_transfer_countries")]
public List<string> SupportedTransferCountries { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("verification_fields")]
public Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, List<string>>> VerificationFields { get; set; }
}
}