ingestlayer/recipes

Monitor failed payments

Catch failed charges the second they happen, with the customer, amount, and decline reason attached, so a billing problem becomes a message instead of a churn surprise.

the event

Emit payment.failed once; route it anywhere below.

  • customer_idstring
  • emailstring
  • amountnumberminor units
  • currencystringISO 4217
  • reasonstringprocessor decline code
  • attemptnumber
emit payment.failed
import { ingest } from "@ingestlayer/sdk";

await ingest("payment.failed", {
  customer_id: charge.customer,
  email:       charge.receipt_email,
  amount:      charge.amount,
  currency:    charge.currency,
  reason:      charge.failure_code,
  attempt:     charge.attempt,
}, {
  idempotencyKey: `${charge.id}:${charge.attempt}`,
});

send it to