https://community.squareup.com/t5/Payments-Troubleshooting/Invoice-Drafts-amp-Publishing/m-p/364546#M39140 <UL><LI>I was trying to integrate invoice API and followed <A href="https://developer.squareup.com/docs/invoices-api/overview#payment-requests" target="_self">this</A></LI><LI>the documentation states that 2 steps must be done<UL><LI>first, create the invoice (which will result in creating a draft invoice, not instantly charged)</LI><LI>then publish the invoice whenever you want to charge the customer card</LI></UL></LI><LI>so we did that, and it worked for the most part</LI><LI>but then we started detecting receiving a lot of `CARD_DECLINED` error when trying to publish some invoices</LI><LI>that itself is not the problem, but apparently those invoice we fail to publish; seem to be updated from draft to paid a little while after we get the CARD_DECLINED issue</LI><LI>when going back to the documentation; we have noticed that adding `due_date` while creating a draft invoice is required</LI><LI>and the documentation says that the invoice will be automatically charged (probably even without calling the publish-invoice API) even the due date is due</LI><LI>so the question is; how can we stop invoices being charged if/after we fail to publish them for any reason</LI><LI>note: we must have instant charge functionality</LI></UL> Sun, 21 Sep 2025 06:28:01 GMT mohabamr 2025-09-21T06:28:01Z https://community.squareup.com/t5/Payments-Troubleshooting/Invoice-Drafts-amp-Publishing/m-p/364546#M39140 <UL><LI>I was trying to integrate invoice API and followed <A href="https://developer.squareup.com/docs/invoices-api/overview#payment-requests" target="_self">this</A></LI><LI>the documentation states that 2 steps must be done<UL><LI>first, create the invoice (which will result in creating a draft invoice, not instantly charged)</LI><LI>then publish the invoice whenever you want to charge the customer card</LI></UL></LI><LI>so we did that, and it worked for the most part</LI><LI>but then we started detecting receiving a lot of `CARD_DECLINED` error when trying to publish some invoices</LI><LI>that itself is not the problem, but apparently those invoice we fail to publish; seem to be updated from draft to paid a little while after we get the CARD_DECLINED issue</LI><LI>when going back to the documentation; we have noticed that adding `due_date` while creating a draft invoice is required</LI><LI>and the documentation says that the invoice will be automatically charged (probably even without calling the publish-invoice API) even the due date is due</LI><LI>so the question is; how can we stop invoices being charged if/after we fail to publish them for any reason</LI><LI>note: we must have instant charge functionality</LI></UL> Sun, 21 Sep 2025 06:28:01 GMT https://community.squareup.com/t5/Payments-Troubleshooting/Invoice-Drafts-amp-Publishing/m-p/364546#M39140 mohabamr 2025-09-21T06:28:01Z