#riptired-reactnative-paymentsheet
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iron otter
👋 Hey @golden halo ! Sorry about that! We try to help in real time in this server and we have to quickly close inactive threads are we often help 20+ people in parallel.
I'm happy to help you further though! Can you clearly summarize your question/issue?
golden halo
Hey
this is the thread
My follow up questions were what is the payment sheet, I only see one reference to that in the docs
and why would I need to pass a client secret over API requests?
iron otter
PaymentSheet is our UI component in our iOS SDK
Let's try a step back: which exact doc are you following and what is the problem?
golden halo
Ah I am talking about react native
iron otter
Sure but our React Native SDK will rely on our iOS or Android SDK under the hood
golden halo
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment?platform=react-native&ui=payment-sheet
this is the doc. I am working on a react native port of my website which uses checkout sessions and I am trying to understand the key differences in the flow between the website implementation of the checkout sessions and the RN implementation
is payment sheet a reference to the mobile payment element shown in the docs I sent above?
iron otter
If you are using Stripe Checkout as a product, none of this matters at all. That product only works in a browser. So in React Native you wouldn't do anything specific other than redirecting your customer to a browser instead.
riptired-reactnative-paymentsheet
golden halo
wait so there is no way to use stripe checkout in the app?
just to be clear by stripe checkout I mean the single page UI stripe provides that handles sales tax and payment
iron otter
Checkout is a web-based hosted payment flow
So in a mobile app you simply redirect to Checkout in a browser
golden halo
okay what if I want to keep the user in the app -- does stripe tax work with the implementation in the docs I sent above?
iron otter
No it won't work
Stripe Tax is only compatible with products like Checkout or Invoicing. So really your best bet is to use a browser for this
iron otter
Also what are you selling? Because Apple/Google have strict rules around payments in mobile apps
golden halo
We are selling physical products, i.e. clothing
iron otter
Gotcha, so yeah in that case the best option is really to keep Checkout and open a webview. That's what most people do and that will make your life way easier
golden halo
okay, lets say I wasn't using checkout and followed the implementation in the guide i linked, what do those customers use for sales tax?
iron otter
In the past, they used a third-party and calculated it entirely themselves. Now you can use https://stripe.com/docs/tax/custom and integrate this in your own logic. None of this is built in though, you collect the information, so that you ask us to calculate tax and then you do the math
golden halo
okay so if I want to keep the payment flow entirely in the app I would need to use my own components for shipping, hit stripes api for the sales tax and then use the payment sheet for completing the transaction
iron otter
yes
golden halo
So its possible to keep the transaction in the app, I would just need to build the requisite infrastructure to make requests to the stripe custom tax api and handle collecting the shipping info and any related information beforehand
iron otter
yes
golden halo
whats the most commonly selected flow between keeping payment in app vs using stripe checkout in a web view?
iron otter
I would assume 95% use Checkout. Our API for standalone tax calculation is brand new and only shipped a month ago so before that anyone would use Checkout or their own tax calculation logic I assume
golden halo
Interesting, alright thanks for your advice! I'll have to look into this alternative to checkout webview