#ORIKIMO - Guest Customer
lone frost
The guest customer is a placeholder record that does not directly correspond to a specific individual
These are created when things like Checkout Sessions are used to collect funds and customer_creation is set to if_required
opaque spruce
Ok so I can't charge them ?
lone frost
Not off-session. The Guest Customer will be used when you are charging individuals and do not save a Customer record
opaque spruce
Ok thanks
high wave
hello
you just asked the same question 3 times in a row but it's not your real question
So let's try to make this efficient
@opaque spruce please let's talk here
you keep leaving the thread without your real answer 😅
Can you explain exactly what you are doing? Are you using Checkout? Are you using PaymentLinks? Are you creating payments in the Dashboard? What exactly are you doing
opaque spruce
I am looking to be able to invoice guest customers, off session
high wave
That doesn't really mean anything
How do you get those guest customers?
what other product do you use
I assume you use PaymentLinks or Checkout?
opaque spruce
Checkout
high wave
Perfect, can you give me an example id from your account? Like a pi_123 for a payment or a cs_test_123 from Checkout?
I'll show you what to change!
opaque spruce
Sorry i can't access it from home
high wave
Do you know how you use Checkout? Did you write the code yourself?
high wave
Perfect so use this specific parameter: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-customer_creation
basically you have to tell Checkout "please always create a Customer, I'll need it later" and set customer_creation: 'always'
and then you will be able to send them an Invoice. you won't be able to use their saved payment method. Not unless you also set https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-payment_intent_data-setup_future_usage to tell us you want to save that card for future payments too
opaque spruce
Ok thanks
I have a colleague who told me that he was able to invoice guest customers through shopify, possible ?
high wave
Shopify is completely unrelated and a third-party. You'd want to talk to Shopify
opaque spruce
Ok thanks 🙏