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silver locustBOT Aug 31, 2023, 6:00 PM

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hidden steeple Aug 31, 2023, 6:01 PM

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I think I'm misunderstanding how prices and products relate.

deep fable Aug 31, 2023, 6:02 PM

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Hello! Looking...

hidden steeple Aug 31, 2023, 6:04 PM

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Sorry to bombard you, but I think I can refine my question. It seems I was mistaking unit_amount for the number of items being purchased, but I think unit_amount should actually be the price, in cents? The problem I'm having is that I already have a Product in the Stripe dashboard, with an associated Price. I don't want to be hard-coding prices in my code, as it's already defined in the dashboard.

deep fable Aug 31, 2023, 6:04 PM

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Ah, yep, that's correct.

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You should pass the Price ID instead of specifying price_data in that case.

hidden steeple Aug 31, 2023, 6:05 PM

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Oh, that sounds like a simple fix.

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Oh, I picked price_data because it was the only way to supply a product_id... but do I not need to reference the product if I reference the price?

deep fable Aug 31, 2023, 6:05 PM

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Yep, you want to set price to the ID of your Price: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-line_items-price

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You do not specify the Product ID. The Price is nested under the Product and, thus, specifies the Product implicitly.

hidden steeple Aug 31, 2023, 6:06 PM

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Ah, that's perfect, thank you - I didn't realise it would automatically allocate.

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