#driesvints
tulip night
Hi 👋 Link is a type of payment method, rather than being a mechanism that wraps other payment methods.
It does allow multiple types of funding sources sometimes, and there are hopes/plans to expand that further.
Do you have more context on what you mean when you say "Link payments [are] not working with Laravel Spark"?
I'm also not familiar with what Laravel Spark is, is that a third-party abstraction of our service? If so, do you know if it supports Link payments?
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onyx vine
@tulip night hmm I don't think that's entirely true. I just tried checking out with a card through Link and it shows as a "card" type, not a "link" type.
This is the object I retrieved from invoice_settings.default_payment_method
Link payments [are] not working with Laravel Spark
I guess I need a way to reproduce a "link" payment method. Right now, using a card through link gives me a "card" payment method"
Laravel Spark is a SaaS billing portal for Laravel apps which we maintain. We have a long standing partnership with Stripe. Paul Asjes was our direct contact before he left Stripe.
We currently do not support Link payments but I'm trying to get that in.
tulip night
Sorry, I thought you were just using Laravel Spark, not building it, we'll need to take a step back and understand how that works. Are you using a Connect flow to offer your service?
Link is still being built and rolled out, so some accounts may see it in different forms. So I need to understand whether you're working from one account consistently, or if your code is planning to be able to handle a variety of account settings.
tulip night
Then for your account it sounds like Link is represented as card payment methods, so what is the problem that you're seeing trying to process those payments?
onyx vine
I guess we should maybe limit out checkout settings to just cards...
tulip night
Do you have examples you can share?
onyx vine
@tulip night I'm thinking that people have "link" enabled on their account which in term allows their customers to use different payment methods which spark doesn't supports
tulip night
Wait, you said a billing integration, is that from your Stripe account?
onyx vine
I think we're gonna roll with https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-payment_method_types and set that to card only
No spark is PHP based. It's a package for Laravel
if we add "link" and "card" in https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-payment_method_types then technically link cannot offer any other payment method than CC right?
tulip night
if we add "link" and "card" in https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/cre...
Nope, that's not a safe assumption to make
It's account dependent
onyx vine
So Link allows for other payment methods even though you haven't enabled those in your dashboard?
tulip night
Link allows for multiple types of funding sources (I explicitly say funding sources to try to break the correlation between them and the concept of other payment method types)