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[loud viper]

What are you using to charge here: Checkout? Subscriptions or Invoices?

We don't have a way to update price objects but for each of those we support "ad hoc" prices which is where you pass in the product ID but then pass in amount dynamically to the subscription/invoice/checkout session and we create a one-off price object for it

Does that sound like it may help in your situation?

[vague quail]

I haven't implemented it yet, my idea was to create only 1 product with maybe 0$ by default and then for each checkout session dynamically change the price, could that work

it's a 1 time payment for 1 product

[loud viper]

Awesome, in that case you can just use our price_data parameter when creating the checkout session https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-line_items-price_data

You don't even need a price defined before. Just the product, pass in its ID and the other required fields and we'll create a Price object automatically at that price

[vague quail]

I don't see the price_data param

is it a sub parameter?

session.create price is basically the product ID right?

[loud viper]

line_items.price_data so yes it is a subparameter

Apologies my link should have linked directly to the pictured section

[vague quail]

const session = await stripe.checkout.sessions.create({
  success_url: 'https://example.com/success',
  line_items: [{
      price: 'price_H5ggYwtDq4fbrJ', // the product without a price
      quantity: 1,
      price_data: {
        currency: 'usd',
        unit_amount: 500, // 5$ in cents to charge.
      }
}],
  mode: 'payment',
})```

would look something like this

??

[loud viper]

No, that is a price ID. It would look something more like:

const session = await stripe.checkout.sessions.create({
  success_url: 'https://example.com/success',
  line_items: [{
      price_date: {
        product: 'prod_123'
        unit_amount:  500,
        currency: 'usd'
      }
      quantity: 1,
      currency: 'usd',
      unit_amount: 500, // 5$ in cents to charge.
}],
  mode: 'payment',
})```

[vague quail]

the price written 2 times? and also the currency?

const session = await stripe.checkout.sessions.create({
  success_url: 'https://example.com/success',
  line_items: [{
      price_data: {
        product: 'prod_123'
        unit_amount:  500,  // 5$ in cents
        currency: 'usd'
      }
      quantity: 1,
}],
  mode: 'payment',
})```

[loud viper]

Products and prices are separate objects

Products have an ID that start with prod_ and prices have IDs starting with price_

Products have related prices but these objects are not interchangable

[vague quail]

I'll have to try out, in the docs I do not see a line_items.unit_amount available

[loud viper]

The docs that I sent show line_items.price_data.unit_amount

[vague quail]

so the last piece of code I sent is correct?

[loud viper]

You might benefit from using our API explorer https://stripe.com/docs?shell=true&api=true&resource=checkout sessions&action=create

Unit amount is in the price data hash in the code that you sent. That is accurate as far as I know

But basically on that page you can build your request then select "Node" and click "Print SDK Code" to the left of the run request button

[vague quail]

yeah tested and it works, thanks a lot for your time and help