How to collect Users' addresses in Stripe

Table of Contents

1. Getting the User’s IP Address from Stripe
2. Automating the Process with Stripe API
3. Using IP Geolocation to Get Address Details
4. Final Thoughts

If you’re working with Stripe and realize that the account didn’t collect old users’ billing addresses, you might need a way to retrieve them. This can be important for legal or compliance reasons.

Luckily, Stripe does collect some payment-related information, including the IP address from where a payment was made. While Stripe doesn’t show this IP address directly, there is a way to retrieve it.

Getting the User’s IP Address from Stripe

1. Subscribe to Stripe’s Fraud Teams – You can sign up for a one-month free trial of Stripe Radar for Fraud Teams. This will give you access to additional fraud detection details, including user IP addresses.

2. Find the IP Address – After subscribing:

   • Go to the Transactions page.
   • Filter records by the user’s email address.
   • Click on any payment for that user.
   • Click Show all insights to open a popup.
   • In the Checkout details section, you’ll find the user’s IP address.

Automating the Process with Stripe API

Manually collecting users’ zip codes one by one would take forever. Fortunately, we can automate this using Stripe’s API.

Step 1: Get Subscription Users
Use the /v1/subscriptions endpoint to fetch all subscribers:

GET /v1/subscriptions

Step 2: Get Payment Intent IDs
For each user, retrieve their payment intent IDs using:

GET /v1/payment_intents

Step 3: Fetch IP Address from Payment Intent
Once you have the paymentIntentID, call this API endpoint to get IP address details:

GET /v1/payment_intents/${paymentIntentID}?expand%5B%5D=source&expand%5B%5D=customer&expand%5B%5D=payment_method&include_only%5B%5D=payment_method.billing_details.address%2Cpayment_method.card.country

This will return:

• The user’s IP address
• The country code

Using IP Geolocation to Get Address Details

With the IP address, we can determine the user’s approximate zip code and country.

One option is to use ip-api.com, which provides geolocation data based on an IP address. Simply send a request like this:

GET http://ip-api.com/json/{IP_ADDRESS}

The response will include details like:

• Country
• Region
• City
• Zip code

Final Thoughts

If your Stripe account isn’t collecting users’ billing addresses and you want to collect them, this method allows you to retrieve them using payment IPs and geolocation services. While it requires subscribing to Fraud Teams for a short period, it provides a useful workaround to collect addresses for users.