#Whip-invoices
royal pulsar
hello! There's two options :
- You can turn on automatic collection on the invoice by setting the auto_advance property on the invoice to true, or
- you can perform all the API calls to finalize, pay and send the invoice yourself
For context, Invoices you create with the API, won’t automatically finalize. You can turn on automatic collection and Stripe will do everything to drive the invoice towards payment.
However, if automatic collection is turned on, note that Stripe will only automatically finalize draft invoices after one hour.
you can read more about it here : https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/integration/automatic-advancement-collection
keen perch
If I turn on automatic collection, can I control when to finalize? Like you have a due date in the api but its only used for sending invoices, something like that could be useful for automatic collection as well. For example, the subscriptions create draft invoices that get finalized after 3 days
royal pulsar
if you turn on automatic collection, you can't control the exact date and time to finalize.
keen perch
Alright, I guess I'll handle it on our side