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Renames account_balance to balance on Customer object


Breaking changes

Renames account_balance to balance on Customer object Breaking changes

What’s new

Renames the Customer object’s account_balance value to balance. With this, a new Customer Balance Transactions API is available:

  • Updates the customer’s balance by incrementing or decrementing its current value by a specified amount and attaching metadata to the change.
  • Retrieves a history of changes to the customer’s balance .

Impact

By renaming the account_balance property to balance, the terminology is now better aligned with common usage. Additionally, the new Customer Balance Transactions API provides you with the ability to directly update a customer’s balance by incrementing or decrementing the value, as well as attach metadata to these balance changes.

Changes

ParametersChangeResources or endpoints
account_balanceRemovedCustomer Customer#create Customer#update
balanceAddedCustomer

Upgrade

  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: 2019-10-17
  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 .

Learn more about Stripe API upgrades.

Last verified 2026-09-27

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