Arghya Das

[candid rune]

Hi there, how can I help?

[wicked monolith]

hello

or should I just redirect user to the url that are coming back from the response

[candid rune]

redirectToCheckout is deprecated, you should just redirect your customer to the checkout session URL.

[wicked monolith]

yea I am returning a url which is session.url

yea ok

let me try that with the url then I wll tell you the problem I am facing

yes so after successful payment I am updating something in my database

so for that work I need to listen to that webhook url right?

as I am using localhost

[candid rune]

https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/fulfill-orders#handle-the-event so you should listen to checkout.session.completed event and fulfil the order based on the checkout session data

[wicked monolith]

yes yes

working fine

but if I make the payment without listening to it

the webhook doesn't work

now the problem is I am redirecting my user in the completion page with the session id

where I am sending them a completion message

is there any way to send the receipt as a downloadable pdf on that page

no I don't want to send them to email for now

just on the completion page with a download button

if I can somehow show or send the receipt of the payment

[candid rune]

Do you mean post-payment invoice with checkouts https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/post-payment-invoices#after-session ?

[wicked monolith]

I am using test api key

so it will not go automatically?

[candid rune]

No emails are sent in test mode

[wicked monolith]

no not emails

can I send to the page I am redirecting the user to?

on the website

[candid rune]

No, I don't see an option to directly download the invoice from a checkout page

So before you navigate your customer to the success page, in your backend you need to manually retrieve the checkout session's invoice (https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/object?lang=cli#checkout_session_object-invoice) and provide the invoice's invoice_pdf (https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object?lang=cli#invoice_object-invoice_pdf) link in the success page.

[wicked monolith]

oh that's how I can

and one thing

my checkout page is very very simple

how can I more images on it

you have some docs on that

?

I coulnd't find it

[candid rune]

https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/customization here's how you can customize a checkout page

[wicked monolith]

thanks

now a last question

I have seen in a video that you can send the invoice to user where they can go to payment page for payment

can I also do like same?

I am using this and redirecting user to the url

instead of that can I somehow redirect user to the invoice page first then from there they can pay?

[candid rune]

Do you have the video link? I'd like to know what video you have seen

[wicked monolith]

oh that video doesn't show that

it's from the stripe developers

[candid rune]

OK. I guess you are talking about about subscriptions of collect_method=send_invoice

Also there's no checkout.session.created webhook events.

[wicked monolith]

I am just making a guess if I can do it here or not

mine is one time payment

what I am thinking that

first redirect to them to the hosted invoice page then from there they can be redirected to the checkout page

[candid rune]

I don't understand, why do you want to redirect your customer form the hosted invoice page to a checkout page?

[wicked monolith]

for showing the invoice to the user first

[candid rune]

I mean the customer can make a payment directly on the hosted invoice page, there's no need to create a new checkout session and redirect them to there to make another payment.

[wicked monolith]

yea yea I understand that

but for redirecting them to the hosted invoice page

what method I need to use

to get the url back from the response and give it to the user so they can be redirected to the invoice page

[candid rune]

https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing you can create an invoice in Dashboard, or use Invoicing APIs to create one programmatically.

Once an invoice is created, you can send (https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/send) it to customer's email, or just redirect your customer to the hosted invoice page through its url
https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-hosted_invoice_url

[wicked monolith]

oh ok

so in your opinion which is best

redirecting to them in the checkout url or invoice?

[candid rune]

There's no checkout here, just invoice.

[wicked monolith]

nono I ask for you opnion

so what will be the best usecase or option

to send the user to the checkout page

or to send the user to the invoice page

[fleet ferry]

👋 Taking over this thread, catching up now

Using Checkout Session or Invoice is up to your your business decision. You can either redirect customer to the Checkout Session to complete the payment or send invoice to the customer to complete the payment

[wicked monolith]

ok ok thanks

[fleet ferry]

No problem! Happy to help 😄

[wicked monolith]

also when I am returning the session id

from the success url

there are so many properties which are null or empty

can I just simple remove them or what?

[fleet ferry]

What properties are you referring to? Why do you need to remove them?

[wicked monolith]

so they are empty or null

[fleet ferry]

If you're referring to Checkout Session request, you can just don't set them.

If you're referring to Checkout Session response, you can just ignore them. You only need to look for the parameters needed. There's no need to remove or modify them

[wicked monolith]

oh ok

that's what I wanted to know

thanks