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dense frostBOT Jan 20, 2023, 3:34 AM

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golden harness Jan 20, 2023, 3:34 AM

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Hi, how can we help?

halcyon tree Jan 20, 2023, 3:34 AM

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Hi! Thanks for asking!

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I am struggling with what must be a very basic question.

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I have a product and I have created a link so that people can go pay with the link. Its actually that they can subscribe.

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I am making a webhook to be able to listen to the subscription events ... but im not clear on how I decorate the link with the user information that can then be relayed back to me when they subscribe (or unsubscribe).

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like how do I send a user to your UI and get notified when they complete what they need to complate?

golden harness Jan 20, 2023, 3:38 AM

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What you described is Payment Link and there is Checkout which is similar and support the function of marking some additional data

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Any chance you can use Checkout? It requires some API calls

halcyon tree Jan 20, 2023, 3:40 AM

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API calls to stripe? Would I need to have any "secret" information? This is a serverless lamda/s3 build so some things I can easily do and others ... not so much 🙂

golden harness Jan 20, 2023, 3:43 AM

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in your lambda I think you can call Stripe API as any backend, right?

halcyon tree Jan 20, 2023, 3:43 AM

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yeah i should be able to.

golden harness Jan 20, 2023, 3:43 AM

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Yes to call Stripe API it needs a Secret Key

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~~Let's forget Checkout. Sorry I just figured it out PaymentLink can also have metadata: https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_links/payment_links/create#create_payment_link-metadata~~

Stripe API reference – Create a payment link – curl

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

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Wait, but you need the information to be different per customer, correct?

halcyon tree Jan 20, 2023, 3:45 AM

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yes.

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different per customer.

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so a user decides to subscribe. They go to stripe and pay. I get a web hook notification and account features are unlocked for them. thats the thinking.

golden harness Jan 20, 2023, 3:48 AM

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Okie, then you need a Checkout Session. Please start here: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment

Accept a payment

Securely accept payments online.

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And when you create a Checkout Session for 1 customer, set up its metadata: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/object#checkout_session_object-metadata

Stripe API reference – The Checkout Session object – curl

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

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It can be a dictionary of free value

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More about metadata: https://stripe.com/docs/videos/developer-foundations?video=metadata&lang=java

Developer foundations

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