#theminecoder
prime jetty
final stratus
hello! if i understand your question correctly, you want to create a one-time invoice?
cunning gull
Not quite, ideally its multiple payments on a single invoice
- invoice created for $200
- initial deposit collected of $50 as part of the flow
- customer/user able to pay on their own to cover the rest of the invoice
the invoice wouldnt be marked as paid until the full amount comes through
im looking at rebuilding the invoicing/billing stack for a volunteer/youth based org where invoice payments are not hard line pay everything at once so im trying to see if that would even be possible
final stratus
How would the customer/user "pay on their own" to cover the rest of the invoice?
i.e. how are you planning to collect payments for the rest of the invoice?
cunning gull
ideally that would be card or bpay (which is the only option we have right now)
so guess the question is more can stripe invoice support multiple payments or am i more likely to be writing my own invoice layer on top of stripe payments
final stratus
hrm, you could use invoicing, but you wouldn't use a single invoice for your use case. The way i would go about it is to create two invoices - one for the deposit and another one for the amount left to be paid
cunning gull
and if i wanted the customer to be able to pay arbitrary amount I would need to making an invoice per payment for that and feed that into the meta invoice somewhere, which sounds similar to diying an invoice layer
might try and send this in as a platform feature suggestion then 🤔
final stratus
if you want the customer to be able to pay an arbitrary amount, then i wouldn't use invoices at all
that's not what Invoices are built for
you can collect an arbitrary amount using Payment Links