#fen-paymentlink-pricedata
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- fen_god, 19 hours ago, 10 messages
frank merlin
fen-paymentlink-pricedata
@vivid leaf There isn't really a way to do this with PaymentLink other than simply creating a new Price each time. It does work totally fine though so that's what I'd recommend to be honest
magic frostBOT
vivid leaf
When i create a payment link via the dashboard the frontend allows me to specify a min and max for the amount. Although for relating Create Payment Link API endpoint, there is no properties that represent a min or max. Is this something that can be only done via the dashboard?
When i inspect the request body of the event relating to the payment link created via the dashboard, i can see an api object i.e
"price_data": {
"custom_unit_amount": {
"enabled": "true",
"preset": "100000",
"minimum": "100000",
"maximum": "100001"
},"
Why cant this be done by the API?
silk dagger
👋 hopping in here since koopajah had to head out
You'd first want to create a Price using the API and the you'd use that Price ID under line_items[].price when you create the Payment Link
If you look at the Price API reference you can see custom_unit_amount is there (https://stripe.com/docs/api/prices/create#create_price-custom_unit_amount)
vivid leaf
So then what price is used when creating the payment link via the dashboard? From my perspective its creating one 'on the fly'
silk dagger
Sorry let me clarify - the Dashboard is using line_items[].price_data which creates the Price and the Payment LInk in the same request. That specific attribute is dashboard-only, but you can accomplish the same thing by first creating the Price in a separate request
vivid leaf
For the dashboard-only, does the customers specified price get saved in stripe as a new price object?
silk dagger
yup!
vivid leaf
how? When the price hasn't been linked to a product? Unless the product by default is 'customer chooses'?
silk dagger
The dashboard is likely either setting price_data.product or price_data.product_data (which would create the product in-line)