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[unborn ruin]

Hello! Yep, we have Stripe Tax for that, which works with Invoicing, Billing, Payment Links, and Checkout: https://stripe.com/docs/tax

[median python]

I was readying about it, apparently I am supposed to have a list of products on my dashboard?

usually my products are saved on my database, and only use stripe to issue the payments

[unborn ruin]

That's typically how it works, yes, you would define your product catalog using Products and Prices in Stripe.

If you don't want to do that you can specify ad-hoc Product and Price data for each payment.

[median python]

How I want it to work is:

Create an intent with an amount of 200$ for example, and have stripe automatically calculate the taxes depending on the user's country

exports.createStripePayment = async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const {
      items,
      email,
      name,
      phoneNumber,
      country,
      city,
      line1,
      line2,
      state,
      postal_code,
    } = req.body;
    // const amount = await calculateOrderAmount(items);
    const amount = 200;
    const intent = await stripe.paymentIntents.create({
      amount: amount,
      metadata: { items: JSON.stringify(items) },
      currency: "usd",
      automatic_payment_methods: {
        enabled: true,
      },
      receipt_email: email,
      shipping: {
        name: name,
        phone: phoneNumber,
        address: {
          country: country,
          city: city,
          line1: line1,
          line2: line2,
          state: state,
          postal_code: postal_code,
        },
      },
    });

    return Response.success(res, {
      clientSecret: intent.client_secret,
    });
  } catch (err) {
    console.log(err);
    return Response.serverError(res, err.message);
  }
};

this is my function if it helps, the amount is usually calculated depending on the items but for now im just testing

[unborn ruin]

Stripe Tax is not compatible with creating Payment Intents directly.

Payment Intents are low-level objects that take a single amount, they are not tax-aware.

In order to use Stripe Tax you need to use something like Invoices or Checkout.

[median python]

So I will need to duplicate my database of products and update it on both my dashboard and database in order to implement the automated taxes?

[unborn ruin]

No. Let's say you wanted to use Checkout. You can specify ad-hoc Price and Product data using price_data when you create the Checkout Session: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-line_items-price_data