leuquim | Stripe Developers | Page 1

dim pollenBOT Dec 1, 2023, 1:09 PM

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snow steeple Dec 1, 2023, 1:12 PM

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Hi, let me help you with this.

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Have you considered using Subscriptions?

burnt swallow Dec 1, 2023, 1:13 PM

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In our case we just require a 1 time payment, not recurring

snow steeple Dec 1, 2023, 1:15 PM

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You can ask the customer what plan they want and only then create an Invoice.

burnt swallow Dec 1, 2023, 1:16 PM

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Ok, so then if they switch plans I'll just create more invoices, and they pay the last one they choose?

snow steeple Dec 1, 2023, 1:17 PM

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Yes

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Or just create an Invoice when they confirm they want to pay.

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In a separate step.

burnt swallow Dec 1, 2023, 1:18 PM

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They currently confirm payment by clicking on the "Pay" button of the Stripe Elements UI, which requires the invoice to be finalized to get the client secret etc.

snow steeple Dec 1, 2023, 1:19 PM

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But are you mainly interested in Invoices or Prices/Products?

burnt swallow Dec 1, 2023, 1:19 PM

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I guess I'll just need to create an invoice each time they change option

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Prices/Products

snow steeple Dec 1, 2023, 1:19 PM

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Then you can use the new Embedded Checkout: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment?platform=web&ui=embedded-checkout

burnt swallow Dec 1, 2023, 1:20 PM

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Checking it out!

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@snow steeple I don't see an option in the checkout documentation that allows specifying optional products (i.e. different service plans) - instead I need to specify the exact product the user is going to pay for. Is this correct? If so, I would need to regenerate a new checkout session & update the embed UI each time the user selects a new plan. Is this what you were proposing?

Page sections would be like:

[ Custom plan selection ] <-- Click on a plan
[ Embed Checkout ] <-- Re-render on change

snow steeple Dec 1, 2023, 1:29 PM

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Do you want plan selection and checkout form on the same page?

burnt swallow Dec 1, 2023, 1:30 PM

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Yes

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That's my main problem

snow steeple Dec 1, 2023, 1:34 PM

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I see. What exactly do you need from the Products/Prices API? Use it as a database for your plans?

burnt swallow Dec 1, 2023, 1:39 PM

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We like that we can manage product data & prices from Stripe, the ability to use Discount Codes & how Stripe can keep data about which products were sold in each invoice, vs now it's just a Payment Intent description and amount.

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I can't see anything in the API docs that would allow us to do what I'm looking for so for now I think we'll have to settle with creating + finalizing a new invoice each time the user selects a different plan in the UI. Will create some "orphan" invoices but shouldn't be a big problem

snow steeple Dec 1, 2023, 1:42 PM

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Ok. You either can create new Invoices when the customer changes the plan. Or just use Prices as a database, and just take the amount to set on your raw PaymentIntents.

burnt swallow Dec 1, 2023, 1:42 PM

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Got it. Thanks for your help!

snow steeple Dec 1, 2023, 1:42 PM

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You can still record the Price ID in PaymentIntent metadata

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