#ZakDev
wild viper
shrewd comet
It looks like you use third party plugin - PriceBlocs. If PriceBlocs controls your integration with Stripe, I'd recommend reaching out to their Support as we do not have the visibility of their integration.
hazy gorge
I see, thanks! Do you know any other way for me to let stripe know the exact customer that is using the checkout?
shrewd comet
If you integrate with Stripe directly, it will be possible. But I don't how PriceBlocs integrates their payment
hazy gorge
Right now, the issue is that I create a new Stripe user in Auth0 when they sign up for my website (so I also create them a stripe account). However, when they go pay, stripe creates another account for them after they complete their purchase. So, I wanted to inform stripe of the exact user through the stripe ID (from the account I created in Auth0) so that it can attribute the payment to an existing account.
That is how I ended up using PriceBlocs, but I am wondering if there is another way to do this with Stripe.
I was wondering if I should be using a URL parameter such as the client reference ID?
shrewd comet
I don't know how Auth0 works as well, but it sounds like they use Connect to created connected accounts: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/explore-connect-guide Since Auth0 and PriceBlocs control your integration, I'd recommend checking with their Support since I don't know how they work.
Alternatively, I'd recommend integrating with Stripe directly via Connect using the guide above, so that you have full control
hazy gorge
I don't actually use PriceBlocs for anything. I just realized that all I did was follow the way they pass parameters in their docs, but I do it with the stripe link instead (which obviously doesn't work, I completely missed that).
shrewd comet
How do you make a payment with Stripe if you don't use PriceBlocs?
hazy gorge
I am just using stripe payment links
shrewd comet
Ah I see! For payment links, you can't specify the customer ID. If you use Checkout Session, then you can specify the customer in the creation request.
This is the guide to create a Checkout Session: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment?platform=web&ui=checkout - you'd need to add additional customer value when creating Checkout Session at step 2: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-customer
hazy gorge
Oh, I see. So my issue is that I'm using a payment link then?
Does my workflow (using Auth0 for identity verification and stripe for payments) not work if I stick with the payment link?
shrewd comet
Oh, I see. So my issue is that I'm using a payment link then?
If you are talking about passing the customer ID (cus_xxx), then yes. Payment Link doesn't support passing customer ID.
Does my workflow (using Auth0 for identity verification and stripe for payments) not work if I stick with the payment link?
I can't comment as I don't know how Auth0 works. If you wish to use Stripe for payments, you may use Checkout Session (one-time Stripe hosted payment page) instead of Payment Link, so that you can pass customer to avoid customer being created again
hazy gorge
I see. thanks! I will try this out. Can I come back to ask any additional questions tomorrow?
Thank you very much for the help!
Also, since I am using Webflow, would it be possible to initiate this checkout session from there?
shrewd comet
Can I come back to ask any additional questions tomorrow?
Sure!
Also, since I am using Webflow, would it be possible to initiate this checkout session from there?
I don't know how Webflow works too. If Webflow allows you to make a request to your server to create a Checkout Session and perform redirect to the Checkout Session URL, then yes.