Removes postal code for card payments in certain regions on Checkout and Payment ElementBreaking changes
What’s new
A postal code is no longer collected for all card payments on Checkout and Payment Element in the following regions:
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Puerto Rico
Why is this a breaking change?
Previously, the postal code was always collected for card payments in the following scenarios:
On Checkout when billing_address_collection was set to
auto.On Payment Element when billingDetails.address was set to
auto.
Impact
If you currently rely on the postal code for customers in the affected regions and don’t have automatic_tax enabled, make the changes necessary to collect this field manually:
For Checkout Sessions, you can set billing_address_collection to
required. However, this will collect the full billing address and affect other payment methods and regions.For Payment Element, you need to add your own custom fields for country and postal code, as well as set billingDetails.address to
never.
Related changes
- Removes currency conversion field from Checkout Session object
- Removes support for the redirectToCheckout method
- Updates initCheckout to be synchronous
- Adds support for collecting business and individual names in Checkout Sessions
- Adds the ability to exclude payment methods from Checkout Sessions and Payment Intents
- Adds support for setting the capture method for specific payment methods with the Checkout Sessions API
- Adds support for configuring branding settings for Checkout Sessions
- Enables specifying units of measurement for Products