Testing with Stripe’s “authentication required” card doesn’t work

Hi, thanks for the reply.

Are you talking about the following instructions for testing a transaction?

No – not exactly. The instructions you link to provide instructions for testing Stripe’s “card authorized” test credit card number but not for testing “card verification needed” scenarios (or “card not authorized” scenarios).

For context, Stripe provides three numbers for testing common card status scenarios:

• “Card authorized” – 4242424242424242
• “Card no authorized” – 4000000000009995
• “Card verification needed” – 4000002500003155

Stripe provides these numbers on its website.

To be clear, the “Card authorized” and “Card not authorized” test card numbers work as expected for subscription products created with your plugin.

Moreover, all three card numbers work with single-purchase products created with your plugin. Specifically, the “Verification needed” test card number redirects to the “3D Secure Test Payment Page”, at which point I can indicate either “complete authentication” or “fail authentication”, as needed for testing.

But in the case of subscription product purchases made with the “Verification needed” test card number from Stripe, the user flow is not as expected. Users are not redirected to the “3D Secure Test Payment” page.

Not only that, but they instead see (after a payment attempt with the spinner icon) the message “Your email address is invalid”. This is confusing and cryptic when the email is obviously valid.

The reason I included the Stripe error code from testing “Verification needed” subscription purchases in my first message is that it corresponds with this email invalid message displayed in the form UI; whatever gets to Stripe is for some reason URL encoded; this triggers the error and this is then sent back in the response, apparently.

Perhaps these are related but the point is – I have no way of knowing whether my subscription customers will be able to verify their cards, if required, when making a purchase – or knowing whether they’ll see a confusing error message when doing so.

Thanks again for your reply!

Hi there, I am using the subscription add-on mentioned. I bought it from you in 2020 and used it in production on rowanprice.com (no longer). Thanks

Ok I’ll copy it over myself then, thanks