Louie-invoice

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👋 Happy to help

To include invoice items, you'll need to create the invoice items on the customer first, then create an invoice:
https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/integration#create-invoice-code

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I see the invoice item is automatedly embedded into the invoice item but how do it know which invoice to embed?

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it'll be added to the next invoice created

If invoice [0] parameter is included in the Invoice Item Create API, it'll be added to the corresponding invoice ID; otherwise, it'll be added to the next invoice

[0] https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoiceitems/create#create_invoiceitem-invoice

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i see

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@sleek flame Let's use the thread here

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hi river

I have a question about the how to designate a payment method to that Invoice object for automatic charging?

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Do you mean that the invoice will be charged to the customer's default payment method?

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Yes this is my question

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The steps will be:

1. Create a Customer: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/create
2. Create a Payment Method and attach to Customer: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-and-reuse
3. Add the Payment Method to Customer's default payment method for invoice setting: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/update#update_customer-invoice_settings-default_payment_method
4. Set collection_method=charge_automatically when creating an invoice: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/create#create_invoice-collection_method

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i see thank you