#tuler-customer-organization
surreal quail
stark zodiac
Hi there
fringe shell
Hello @stark zodiac
stark zodiac
So you can have an "organization" or an "individual" be represented by a Customer object
fringe shell
Ok, but the flow of the payment link starts with an email, right?
stark zodiac
Oh you mean within the Checkout flow itself?
Like once they open up the Checkout page?
fringe shell
Yes, using the no-code payment link alternative
stark zodiac
Yeah then they will need to enter an email within the Checkout flow, but that could be any email really.
fringe shell
stark zodiac
That is pretty different... that's for Subscription management
What's the exact confusion here? I'm not sure what you are asking at this point, sorry
fringe shell
Yes, that is what I need, subscription management. But my question is how to deal with user subscriptions and organization subscritpions.
stark zodiac
Well are you planning on having any sort of authentication on your end when they visit your site?
That is really the way to handle it
So you authenticate them then you would redirect them to the Portal corresponding with their Customer ID
fringe shell
I do have authentication (integration with auth0). A user can signup, I have his email, etc. Then he can create organizations in my system. So he has his personal account, and organization accounts as well.
stark zodiac
Okay, so all you need to do is link that "organization" to the Customer ID within Stripe
fringe shell
Correct, I can have a Customer ID for his user, and a Customer ID for each of his organizations. Correct? So far so good.
Now I need to enable the user to subscribe to a plan either to his personal account or to one of his organization accounts.
I was planning to use the Customer Portal for that.
stark zodiac
Overall Payment Links doesn't give you a ton of control here
It is meant for a simple one-to-many solution
What you really want to do is create Checkout Sessions yourself
This allows you to pass a Customer ID directly to the Checkout Session
Then you can more easily control the Customer in terms of it being the "organization" or the "person" and also easily manage the Subs with Customer Portal
Like every time you have a new Sub created via a PaymentLink you are going to get a new Customer
fringe shell
Cool, that's what I needed to know. Can you point me to the right docs page for that?
stark zodiac
Sure, the overview of the Checkout guides is here: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout
fringe shell
So the Customer that represents an organization, is the email field required? Or unique?
stark zodiac
It will be required on the Checkout Session, yes. It does not have to be unique.
You can also pre-fill the email yourself if you want
By setting it on the Customer and passing the Customer ID to the Checkout Session, or you can pass customer_email to the Checkout Session on creation
fringe shell
Thank you for your help! I'll continue my research
pure lantern