New updates (after 9.6) have error message 'missing billing_address'

[dragon-ben-ussd]

Description

On credit card checkout, there is an error "Missing billing_address_1"
The payment is not sent to Stripe, so there is no failed payment in Stripe.
When a new user registers, address, city, state and zip fields are created in the usermeta table. Fields for billing_address_1, billing_city, etc are not created.
I build the order using code and add the billing and shipping fields there. If I open the pending order, the billing and shipping fields are there.

It is not just the address field. If any of the billing_ fields are missing in userdata, it will error and list that field.
If I reset the plugin to v9.6 it does not have an error.
Another thing I found. If an older user that has used this platform in the pass to sign up for something does the same thing, there is no problem. This is even if the do not have billing_ fields in their usermeta. Or, if I add the billing_ fields to the new user, Do a transaction, then remove the fields and do another transaction it works ok. I assume these fields are created in some woocommerce table and it can find them there later.

Steps to reproduce

You can only reproduce this with admin assistance. (unless you want to pay and sign up for a karate tournament)
A new user registers, then tries to signup for the event and gets this error.

Expected behavior

Process the order using the billing fields I added to the order and that appear in the order if I open it in wordpress.

[diegocurbelo]

I couldn't reproduce this using a test environment (test mode enabled). Can you share more details on how to reproduce this? Maybe the custom code you are using to create the order?

We implemented stricter validation of required fields before creating a Stripe customer in #4464 and #4489.

I build the order using code and add the billing and shipping fields there

If the message starts with Missing required customer field: … then you can use the new filter (wc_stripe_create_customer_required_fields) added in 9.7.0 to customize which fields are required.

Also, we have an open PR #4576 for a similar problem with orders created from the admin and the pay for order page

[dragon-ben-ussd]

That gave me just what I needed. I added the missing fields when I creat the order and now it works. Thanks

This is what I had:
$address = array(
'first_name' => $user_info->first_name,
'last_name' => $user_info->last_name,
'company' => '',
'email' => $user_info->user_email,
'phone' => $user_info->phone,
'address_1' => $user_info->address,
'address_2' => '',
'city' => $user_info->city,
'state' => $user_info->state,
'postcode' => $user_info->zip,
'country' => 'US'
);
$order->set_address( $address, 'billing' );
$order->set_address( $address, 'shipping' );

I added this:

        'billing_address_1'  => $user_info->address,
        'billing_address_2'  => '',
        'billing_city'       => $user_info->city,
        'billing_state'      => $user_info->state,
        'billing_postcode'   => $user_info->zip,
        'billing_country'    => 'US',

[diegocurbelo]

Thanks for confirming it works!