#rob-checkout-cart
clever dagger
Can you clarify what you mean by Cart here?
What exactly are you trying to add where?
smoky hawk
i thought stripe coiuld do this but correct me if im wrong...
I have a site with products, i want to add the product to a stripe cart, then once complete, purchase the items in the cart in a stripe checkout page
or do i add the items to a local cart, and then transfer the local cart to a stripe checkout?
clever dagger
add the product to a stripe cart
I'm not sure what you mean by this
You can send a list of products/prices to create a checkout session, but the "cart" abstraction is soemthing you would implement
Then send those details to the Stripe API
smoky hawk
right i see, i think thats where my confusion is, i had it in my head that stripe had a cart feature
clever dagger
We do not -- you'd track that part then map your "cart" items to the line_items API structure
smoky hawk
so the flow is:
- Add item to site cart
- Transfer cart items to stripe checkout session
- Complete checkout in stripe
clever dagger
Yep!
smoky hawk
do the products themselves need to exist in stripe? as in, as well as adding them to my site, i also need to add them to stripe, and its the price_12345 id that connects the product in my site to the product in stripe?
pseudo solarBOT
clever dagger
Up to you, but you can optionally use price_data and product_data to define price and product details ad-hoc
Though if you expect to pay for the same price/product repeatedly I'd suggest creating fixed price/product objects.
zenith dune
rob-checkout-cart
smoky hawk
in that same create session api call?
zenith dune
yes
smoky hawk
what are the positives and negatives to creating them adhoc over having them as products in stripe?
zenith dune
Analytics/reconciliation is a big one. If you always create everything ad-hoc then you have no way to simply analyze what Product was sold the most, what Price is more popular, etc.
If it were me I would import my product catalog in Stripe and then use the relevant Price ids price_123