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jovial birchBOT Jan 20, 2023, 1:41 PM

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tight grove Jan 20, 2023, 1:41 PM

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👋 happy to help

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Unfortunately that's not possible

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the PaymentIntent won't be created until the customer pays

stiff latch Jan 20, 2023, 1:44 PM

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Bummer. But thank you for the clarification.

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Do u know if using "invoice" will work?

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When I create a new invoice, the returned invoice object does contain a ID-filled payment intent object.

I assume I can then pass payment intent ID to my own UI with Stripe Elements

tight grove Jan 20, 2023, 1:49 PM

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stiff latch Do u know if using "invoice" will work?

yes one-off invoices can be used in that case

tight grove Jan 20, 2023, 1:49 PM

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stiff latch When I create a new invoice, the returned invoice object does contain a ID-fille...

correct

rich hazel Jan 20, 2023, 2:09 PM

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@stiff latch just be aware that this workaround might leave you with an ungodly amount of finalized / unpaid invoices, depending on how many customers will not actually pay but leave your custom checkout page

stiff latch Jan 20, 2023, 2:10 PM

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Yeah... I am working on a consumer checkout flow. Definitely wanna avoid sending consumer an invoice and all these complciations.

rich hazel Jan 20, 2023, 2:12 PM

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i am facing exactly the same problem, unfortunately there is no solution.

i spent the past week implementing ALL available options / workarounds and numerous support sessions, unless we finally get support for 'line_items' 'invoice_creation' 'post-payment invoicing within the create payment intent api there is no solution.....

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thus, preventing us from implementing the payment elements the way the´re supposed to work (custom checkout flow)

stiff latch Jan 20, 2023, 2:16 PM

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Gotcha... similar situation here. Spent a couple of days experimenting invoice and checkout session.

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"Checkout Session" is definitely a good candidate for me. We already have a custom checkout flow using Stripe Elements in place for a year or so. But looking for ways to reduce my maintenance load + speed up development.

rich hazel Jan 20, 2023, 2:20 PM

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hmm, thats good to hear, in my case i can not use the checkout sessions since there is jurisdictions in my country regarding to "digital products" which requires me to have an additional chechbox on the final checkout page, which is aswell not possible..... could be all so simple

did you experiment with paymentintent metadata already?

stiff latch Jan 20, 2023, 2:21 PM

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Yup. We use "metadata" dictionary to store some IDs to help cross referencing data objects.

rich hazel Jan 20, 2023, 2:23 PM

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yeah, i mean everything is already there, it just seems it´s one or the other, intially it sounded like "payment elements can do everything as the checkout sessions" but in a more flexible / cusomizable way, which is obviusly not true...

took me a week to figure that out....

stiff latch Jan 20, 2023, 2:27 PM

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The amount of nuances among different payment flows are insane. I am amazed you "only" spent 1 week.

rich hazel Jan 20, 2023, 2:28 PM

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you are absolutely right, unfortunately these nuances are crucial for us to actually get this stuff going in a sane way of doing things

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i looked into paypal again, so simple to just have 'line_items' etc.. but the UX is just not comparable to stripe, i really want to use stripe it just feels and looks nicer

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