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Invoice payment failures now return a card_error when a charge is declined


Breaking changes

Invoice payment failures now return a card_error when a charge is declined Breaking changes

What’s new

Updates invoice payment attempts to return a card_error when the charge is declined. This aligns /v1/invoices/{the related setting}/pay with /v1/charges.

Impact

This change aligns the error handling of invoice payment attempts with that of direct charges, returning a card_error when a charge is declined. You can now expect consistent error responses across different payment endpoints, improving error handling and debugging processes.

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  1. View your current API version in Workbench.
  2. If you use an SDK, upgrade to the corresponding SDK version for this API version.
  • If you don’t use an SDK, update your API requests to include Stripe-Version: 2017-12-14
  1. Upgrade the API version used for webhook endpoints .
  2. Test your integration against the new version.
  3. If you use Connect, test your Connect integration .
  4. In Workbench, perform the upgrade . You can roll back the version for 72 hours.

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Last verified 2026-09-24

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