jshort-paymentlink-metadata | Stripe Developers | Page 1

final orchidBOT Jun 21, 2023, 10:12 PM

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proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:12 PM

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@mental jackal hello! I'm happy to help but can't do much from a picture.

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Can you clarify how you create the PaymentLink, where you set the metadata, etc,?

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jshort-paymentlink-metadata

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:21 PM

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sure,
$stripe = new \Stripe\StripeClient(API_KEY);

$payment_link = $stripe->paymentLinks->create([
    'line_items' => [[
                'price' => $price->id, 
                'quantity' => 1
            ]],
    'metadata' => [
        'order_description'     => $description_short,
        'hotelid'         => $hotel->hotelid 
    ]
]);

Gives me a payment link I can click on which launches a Stripe payment screen.

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ty for responding

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The intent of the picture was to illustrate the same code which creates the payment link will sometimes have a checkout session and sometimes not.

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:22 PM

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Okay so you put the metadata on the PaymentLink, so it does on the Checkout Session. It won't go on the PaymentIntent or the Charge.

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:23 PM

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Yes

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:23 PM

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All PaymentLinks will always yield a Checkout Session

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the picture you shared is not about PaymentLinks, it's about PaymentIntents (same first word but completely different API)

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:25 PM

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proud folio **All PaymentLinks** will always yield a Checkout Session

I was looking under Stripe, Payments, Events and Logs for both payments. One shows a checkout session created but the other payment does not show a checkout session.

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Same code seems to yield different Activity Log

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I am searching by fingerprint

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:30 PM

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I'm really sorry but I have no idea what this means for now

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I'm a developer and I help developers with their code and right now you seem to just talk about the Dashboard and being lost

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Can you give me an example PaymentIntent id pi_123 that is problematic? I'll show you what happened

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:31 PM

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200 OK
A request to confirm a Checkout Session completed
15/06/2023, 10:54:24

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A new payment pi_3NJKNIGShQEngw2R2qyputdN for CA$1,404.48 was created
15/06/2023, 10:54:24

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This attempt lets me see the meta-data.

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:31 PM

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Please try to focus on the questions as a developer yourself, don't just copy-paste everything

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All I need is a clear PaymentIntent id pi_123 for the problem. Please only share that one thing

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:32 PM

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pi_3NJKNIGShQEngw2R2qyputdN

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Is this what you need?

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This payment intent creates a checkout session

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My issue is I have another payment intent which does not create a checkout session.

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:33 PM

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This payment intent creates a checkout session
no that does not make sense. A PaymentIntent never creates a Checkout Session. It's the opposite

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:34 PM

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The reason I say it does is because there is a one second differential between the two events.

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:34 PM

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yes but that is incorrect and it's important to grasp how all those objects relate to each other otherwise you're going to have a really hard time integrating and understanding our API

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a PaymentLink is kind of a "reusable link for a specific payment config". You share the URL with end customers, they visit it. Each visit creates a single use Checkout Session (cs_test_123) that is ephemeral (24 hours) for that one end customer to try to pay (or give up). That Checkout Session, when confirmed, will create a PaymentIntent (pi_123)

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:37 PM

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ok that is helpful as a starting point, ty

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:39 PM

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So the PaymentIntent you shared earlier is https://dashboard.stripe.com/payments/pi_3NJKNIGShQEngw2R2qyputdN
That's created by the API Request https://dashboard.stripe.com/logs/req_5eTxN6wo0xIRWS which does come from a Checkout Session.
That Session came from a PaymentLink https://dashboard.stripe.com/payment-links/plink_1NJKLxGShQEngw2RyyeO5efd

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What you see on that page is not the metadata but instead the Price/Product info I think?

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It's tough to say you seem to have reused the same logic for both

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You should be trying all of this in Test mode as the developer and setting different value in each of the parameter so that you can reconcile things

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:44 PM

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The reason I am thinking it is meta-data is because in the webhook.php I am retrieving the metadata property like this:

    $stripe_sessions     = $stripe->checkout->sessions->all(['limit' => 1]);
    $stripe_data     = $stripe_sessions['data'];
    $stripe_obj     = $stripe_data[0];
    $stripe_metadata     = $stripe_obj->metadata;
    $order_description     = $stripe_metadata->order_description;
    $hotelid        = $stripe_metadata->hotelid;

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:48 PM

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I'm... super lost

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:48 PM

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This code has been working in circumstances for a few months but I'm finding a case where the metadata is not correct.

I thought the Dashboard would give me a clue as to what is going on.

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:48 PM

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Why would you use the List Checkout Sessions API and pass limit => 1. That basically means "give me the most recent Checkout Session"

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:49 PM

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yes, I just noticed that now

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Perhaps, no matter what the Dashboard says I need to get the correct session

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not the most recent

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I will follow that lead, ty

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:50 PM

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What are you really doing though?

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Are you getting a checkout.session.completed Event?

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If so you already have the Session in that Event, with its metadata

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:52 PM

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When I click the Payment link event I want to transmit custom order information to the Stripe payment screen.

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:53 PM

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yeah see you're wording this in a completely different way again sadly and now I'm lost

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what does "transmit custom order information" mean? custom metadata? The content of what is being bought? Something else completely different?

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:57 PM

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An exact example would be

Comfort Suites Tulsa O/S Amt as at 13-jun-2023 for file(s) 67809,67810

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It's a charge for services rendered

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 10:59 PM

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I mean this looks a lot more like a description to me than anything else?

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That's not really how PaymentLink and Checkout work at all though

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It seems like you're almost making one-time use/one-off Prices and Products just to get to that string that is a bit obscure?

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 10:59 PM

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It is a description, true

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Yes, that's right

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 11:00 PM

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I assume that can't even be re-used by anyone and you're using PaymentLinks in a way that is "abnormal" where each link is just for one customer for one specific order?

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 11:00 PM

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exactly right

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One page will be a listing of charges for a hotel. They can click on/off the checkboxes, which will recreate the payment link.

Then when they click the Pay Now button it takes the custom charges and launches stripe with the custom description

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 11:02 PM

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yeah that's not at all how our product is supposed to be used 😅

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why do you create a PaymentLink at all?

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 11:03 PM

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because the Payment Link seemed like the easiest way to accomplish what I wanted to do.

If you can think of an easier way I'd evaluate it.

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 11:03 PM

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Why aren't you just using Checkout directly?

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What is the upside of creating the PaymentLink and then immediately sending the Customer to that URL which will really just create a Checkout Session for them?

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 11:05 PM

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My business case is many different hotels will log in and then see all their charges. They can click the applicable checkboxes and click the Pay Now button.

How would the Checkout apply in the above scenario?

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The upside is minimum amount of clicks to get the customer to pay their bill.

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 11:06 PM

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I'm sorry, I have no idea what any of this means

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I'm really trying but now you talk about hotels and customers and checkboxes

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 11:06 PM

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Can I send you a picture as it will be easier to illustrate?

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a pic is worth a 1000 words

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 11:07 PM

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if you send it here, sure, otherwise no

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Ultimately: if you send the customer to pay to Checkout immediately, it really makes no sense to me that you'd use PaymentLinks

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 11:09 PM

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They click a checkbox and then click Pay Invoice. The Pay Invoice will execute the Payment link.

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 11:09 PM

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Okay so the end customer is on that page and going to pay for this right?

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 11:09 PM

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yes

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 11:09 PM

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So really you want Checkout only. Never PaymentLink. You seem to have misunderstood something fundamental here, I'm just not sure what

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PaymentLinks would be "I sell a book for $8.99 to anyone who wants it, I want to tweet a link anyone can click to buy that book"

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 11:10 PM

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ok so what would Checkout look like? I would click Pay invoices and redirect them to a Checkout link?

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I don't want them to change how much they pay once they get to checkout.

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 11:13 PM

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Really your code needs to create a Checkout Session directly and never go through PaymentLinks

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try it https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 11:15 PM

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Would they have to login to Stripe?

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 11:15 PM

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not at all

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sorry I keep saying this but it's not clicking

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All a PaymentLink is is a "factory" to create a Checkout Session

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the customer experience for you will be mostly identical. Instead of sending them to a PaymentLink URL which immediately sends them to a Checkout URL under the hood, you just send them to Checkout directly

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 11:17 PM

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ah ok, I'll try that. Do you have a good video link which illustrates how to execute?

proud folio Jun 21, 2023, 11:18 PM

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https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment?platform=web&ui=checkout

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it's really just the same as PaymentLink, without creating that one.

trail shard Jun 21, 2023, 11:19 PM

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k I'll try, thx for your patience

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