#rstupek-pmme-country
knotty rose
HI 👋
Stripe looks at the country associated with the IP address to determine things like if a specific payment method is viable for a purchase.
alpine pendant
ok so no need to provide it per the example in the docs
knotty rose
Which example are you referring to?
knotty rose
Ah, okay in that case the messaging is intended to notify the customer if they are not in a supported country. Stripe will just non show the Payment Method but it would be up to you to notify the customer of why
alpine pendant
not sure I understand... if I don't set the country, stripe will determine their country? or do I need to figure out their country?
knotty rose
I'm sorry, I was thinking about the Payment Element. The Method Messaging element does require you to provide the country code to effectively message the end customer
alpine pendant
their country code right?
north basinBOT
knotty rose
Correct. Step 3 in the Create and Mount section here: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-method-messaging#create-and-mount-the-payment-method-messaging-element
alpine pendant
ok any advice on how I would determine the shoppers country?
knotty rose
You could collect it using the Address Element: https://stripe.com/docs/elements/address-element
alpine pendant
it sort of defeats the purpose of rendering it since I'd rather not force a shopper to provide an address simply to display a product with the pay over time messaging?
knotty rose
There are services you can use to retrieve the address from the IP of the request
woeful trellis
rstupek-pmme-country
alpine pendant
ok that makes it a much bigger task