richard_62179 | Stripe Developers | Page 1

merry dirgeBOT Dec 18, 2023, 3:48 PM

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short flint Dec 18, 2023, 3:50 PM

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Hello 👋

I am using stripe.checkout.sessions.create and I provide a customer and have all customer_update set to never. Still, the url for doing the checkout first leads to a Stripe page that asks for the user's name and only then proceeds to PayPal. This should not be necessary, since I already provided the name to the API. What am I doing wrong?
Can you share the screenshot of the UI you're looking at?

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We are migrating from a different provider. With this provider, we were already using Paypal Reference Transactions (https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/advanced/customize/reference-transactions/) for charging recurring payments. If possible, I would like to import them to Stripe, so I can initiate future PayPal charges via the Stripe API. Is this possible somehow?
Not something I know off the top of my head, let me check
You might need to talk to our support team

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Checking though

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yeah I don't see a way to import the recurring payments publicly

I would suggest you reach out to our support about that, they can confirm if there's some internal way this can be done
https://support.stripe.com/?contact=true

loud moon Dec 18, 2023, 4:06 PM

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This is the page that asks for the name.

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I am already talking to your German support, but they are having a really hard time to understand what I am talking about... In their latest response they said that PayPal is responsible for the integration of PayPal and Stripe, which does not make any sense to me. I am pretty sure that it is you (Stripe) who are calling the PayPal API, not the other way around.

short flint Dec 18, 2023, 4:16 PM

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My understanding is that we only prefill email on checkout page, customers have the option to provide a different name when checking out (like when they're checking out on behalf of somebody else)

I don't believe you can prefill name

loud moon Dec 18, 2023, 4:19 PM

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That's unfortunate. We are currently integrating PayPal via Mollie and with their system, users get immediately forwarded to PayPal. Having this intermediate step will just affect conversion negatively. And the name is not really used anyways... Not sure if we will switch our PayPal payments to Stripe in this case... 🤔

short flint Dec 18, 2023, 4:20 PM

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You're currently using Stripe Checkout to integrate paypal, have you looked at the direct API integration docs?
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/paypal/accept-a-payment?platform=web&ui=API

Sounds like latter would fit your usecase better

loud moon Dec 18, 2023, 4:24 PM

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Riiiight, that's a really good suggestion. For PayPal it should be possible to skip the Checkout Session and immediately create a PaymentIntent. I'll give it a try. Thanks!

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