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[outer lynx]

hello! if you reach out to Stripe Support - https://support.stripe.com/contact, they'll be able to advise you on that!

[slate vapor]

If I am taking payment online, via API/SDK., here is my flow :

1. create pay method

2. create customer + associate w/ payment method from step 1

3. create invoice item + associate with product id

4. create invoice item

5. create & confirm payment intent

is my workflow accurate?

I want to be able to see if I can get reports after sale, on my account and get intended insight for sales by product - one way or the other

[outer lynx]

the workflow looks correct. if I understand your question correctly, you're looking to check the sales by Product on the Stripe Dashboard right? Support will be able to better answer your question about where you can check that via the Dashboard. Those of us on this channel don't interact with the Dashboard much. There's no way to get the sales by product via API. You'll have to calculate yourself if you want it

[slate vapor]

Ok. Thanks. Follow up question.

How do I create invoice line item object instead invoice item?

As an alternate, could I create checkout session?

[outer lynx]

Did you mean how do you create an Invoice Line Item?

You can't create an Invoice Line Item, Invoice Items represent the component lines of an invoice. An invoice item is added to an invoice by creating or updating it with an invoice field, at which point it will be included as an invoice line item within invoice.lines.

yes, you can create a Checkout Session instead

[slate vapor]

I tried checkout session. It does not seem to serve my needs.

Let me create an invoice item and add it to an inoiuce

• invoice

https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object - how do I pass invoice item id with invoice when creating it? I am not sure if I see a parameter for it. I do however, do see invoice line items

[livid smelt]

👋 taking over here

You can simply create an Invoice for that Customer. It will pick up the created Invoice Item

[slate vapor]

Hello! Thanks for joining. 👋

[slate vapor]

That is what I thought. So, I created an invoice item successfully. And then, sent this request: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/create. It failed with an error.

  "error": {
    "code": "invoice_no_customer_line_items",
    "doc_url": "https://stripe.com/docs/error-codes/invoice-no-customer-line-items",
    "message": "Nothing to invoice for customer",
    "param": "customer",
    "request_log_url": "https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_CxxXscSaubN89W?t=1679285303",
    "type": "invalid_request_error"
  }
}```

[livid smelt]

Can you share the request that created the Invoice Item? req_xxx

[slate vapor]

I do not see it in the response. How do I find it?

I do have invoice item id though. I am in test mode, for what it's worth.

[livid smelt]

You have your requests log at https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs. But okie Invoice Item Id is good too, please provide it!

[slate vapor]

ii_1MnZ2qDI89yB3EcwGoW4Me3B

[slate vapor]

req_WRhSkBSWYFPLU5

[livid smelt]

gime a few mins. brb

You created this Invoice Item for cus_NYfkliaWFaXcBz

while the error is on the request req_CxxXscSaubN89W which targets cus_MyMpHamO5EXstT

[slate vapor]

I am also having trouble finalizing an invoice. https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_hnPZlpIedhdHEB?t=1679286578

[livid smelt]

Could you see its error message? It says that Customer has no card to be charged

[slate vapor]

That is bizarre. I have 2 credit cards and one default card to the customer.

[livid smelt]

You would want to have one setup as invoice_settings.default_payment_method to be automatically used