#Crabby
mild oak
lament cape
hmm, I think either works really(using an Invoice or using a PaymentIntent directly), and they both have the same problem(creating duplicates) if you don't implement it in such a way to record things in your database to avoid it.
However, if the invoice goes past it's due date, the hosted link will become invalid.
then maybe Invoices are not a good fit, I suppose it really depends how you want to handle the case of the customer not paying and how much time to give them
@north phoenix
north phoenix
I see, another thing i thought about was listing for an invoice expiry webhook event and then removing the hosted page link from the database so a new one could take it's place. I was doing some research but couldn't find the specific event that's fired for this. Is there one?
lament cape
I think it generates an invoice.payment_failed event since the invoice has not been paid within the due date
but really you can just check directly, the user visits your page to ask to pay, you check if now > invoice.due_date and if it is, then you know you need to generate a new invoice and redirect them to that ones's hosted_invoice_url instead of the existing one
or just create a new invoice every time, there's no direct problem with having multiple invoices for the same customer that end up unpaid, depends on your requirements/tolerances