# Create Subscription sends Invoice instead of charging the card

**URL:** <https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/create-subscription-sends-invoice-instead-of-charging-the-card/7114>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** subscriptions-api\
**Created:** [September 20, 2022, 6:15am UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/create-subscription-sends-invoice-instead-of-charging-the-card/7114 "2022-09-20T06:15:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![akarshit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@akarshit](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/akarshit)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 6:15am UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/create-subscription-sends-invoice-instead-of-charging-the-card/7114/1 "2022-09-20T06:15:55Z")

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When I send a request to create a subscription using a card on file, intead of charging the card, square creates a invoice and sends that to user’s email address.  
Here is a subscription id to verify the behavior: 8ab48fc7-59d4-4c32-b47f-4388f5511bbe

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**Author:** ![Bryan-Square](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/square/forums/user_avatar/developer.squareup.com/bryan-square/32/38_2.png) [@Bryan-Square](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/Bryan-Square)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/create-subscription-sends-invoice-instead-of-charging-the-card/7114/2 "2022-09-20T16:47:49Z")

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👋 It looks like when the subscription was create it didn’t include the [card\_id](https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/subscriptions-api/create-subscription#request__property-card_id) in the `CreateSubscription` request:

```auto
  {
  "subscription": {
    "id": "8ab48fc7-59d4-4c32-b47f-4388f5511bbe",
    "location_id": "L7XNDHE36ZPDC",
    "plan_id": "7FQ6O6I5R2SHHQQRK6KCC4CP",
    "customer_id": "6Z4HF1WR3Z0Z86V979Z9CAE2AR",
    "start_date": "2022-09-20",
    "status": "ACTIVE",
    "version": 1,
    "created_at": "2022-09-20T01:50:08-04:00",
    "timezone": "America/New_York",
    "source": {
      "name": "Reserve Nature"
    }
  }
}

```

🙂