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covert hollowBOT Oct 28, 2022, 5:16 PM

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jade echo Oct 28, 2022, 5:16 PM

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Hi there

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recurring is for Subscriptions where it will be used for recurring payments. If it is omitted then yes, it won't be recurring

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And it would be a one-off

unkempt kestrel Oct 28, 2022, 5:17 PM

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ok great, so basically I then try to "buy" it using the subscription.create API it will fail

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and I should use charges right?

jade echo Oct 28, 2022, 5:17 PM

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You use Prices with Checkout or with Subscriptions/Invoices

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If you are going to just take one-off payments using PaymentIntents then you don't use Prices

unkempt kestrel Oct 28, 2022, 5:19 PM

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umm, not sure I follow here. I don't need to create a product/price to be bought and directly put the amount and create the PaymentIntent?

jade echo Oct 28, 2022, 5:20 PM

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Let's back up

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What is your model (one-off payments or recurring or both?)

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And what integration flow are you interested in using? Stripe Checkout? Elements with custom flow?

unkempt kestrel Oct 28, 2022, 5:23 PM

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I try to explain briefly, I have 3 potential use cases, and for now, I support one of them. The use cases are the following:

Subs, recurring with a recurring (monthly, 3monthly, etc) supported already
Subs, that cancel after the first cycle (i'm using cancel_at_period_end for them) almost done
One-off products todo

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My integration is using the custom flow, using flutter_stripe

jade echo Oct 28, 2022, 5:23 PM

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Ah okay

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So then yeah, you won't use Products/Prices for the one-off flow unless you want to use Invoices

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You would just set the amount when you create the PaymentIntent: https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_intents/create#create_payment_intent-amount

unkempt kestrel Oct 28, 2022, 5:24 PM

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what's the difference?

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I saw that flow in which you create invoice and then it pays

jade echo Oct 28, 2022, 5:25 PM

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The difference is that there is an invoice that you could provide to a customer if you so desired.

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And it is a bit more complicated in terms of the amount of API calls

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But overall quite similar.

unkempt kestrel Oct 28, 2022, 5:25 PM

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ok, that's great, might be my case then. Also because I need to handle a bunch of custom stuff in the app after the payment is done (keep track of used sessions)

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just for context we are modeling a gym subscriptions, and they also sell drop-ins (either one class, or a bundle of 10 classes for instance)

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so I guess that it might make sense to have invoicing there

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thank you so much for the clarification!

jade echo Oct 28, 2022, 5:26 PM

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Sure thing

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Let us know if you run into any challenges while building and we would be happy to help

unkempt kestrel Oct 28, 2022, 5:27 PM

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Okok, the drop-ins support should start in a week or so. So i'll ping you in cause i'll get stuck!

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thank youu!

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have a good rest of the day

#nerder