#ssgernie_best-practices
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gentle birch
Are you writing your own API code here, or is this more of a configuration on your squarespace account?
sly sun
I was hoping to just do it though the configuration, but if I have to write it myself then I can see what that will entail.
If it is a lot of work we might have to move over to shopify and use their iDEAL integration instead but I would like to avoid it and stay with stripe if possible
I also considered creating the products in stripe and using a stripe embedded form to get the same effect if that will work
But I am not familiar with creating products in stripe and if that will work with iDEAL
gentle birch
Gotcha, for that I would reccommend talking to Squarespace's support. This server and our support team really only know about working directly with Stripe, but Squarespace will know about how you can work with their system.
Payment links could definitely be a lightweight way for you to take payments. These docs outline how to get set up with them https://docs.stripe.com/payment-links
sly sun
Ya, I understand it is not your product that is causing the problem... but their support is not as forthcoming with actually supportive answers.
That is how we got into this situation in the first place. They told us to just choose stripe if we want iDEAL support, but after a lot of searching it seems they don't support your API fully
I will take a look at that doc and create another thread if I need any more help with that
Thanks for the help, and you can close this if there is no other documentation you can send me
gentle birch
Gotcha, I think that payment link doc should be what you need here, and our support team can help you with enabling iDEAL on those Payment Links if you are having trouble setting that up.
The only other docs that are coming to mind are our docs on iDEAL, but those are about our low-code solution, Checkout, and our solution for building custom pages, Elements. https://docs.stripe.com/payments/ideal
sly sun
Can I add addition fields to the payment links? I have a product with options for color and I would like to capture that data when they customer uses it
gentle birch
sly sun
And is there any way to have people add multiple things before paying, like a cart system using payment links?
gentle birch
Ah, unfortunately payment links can't handle carts. They are for selling a lot of the same thing over and over again. For a dynamic card you would need to use Checkout https://docs.stripe.com/payments/accept-a-payment?platform=web
sly sun
Regarding step 1: set up stripe, how would I accomplish that with squarespace
I'm not sure I have any serverside access
gentle birch
Unfortunately I am not sure, that would be a question for squarespace's support. It is sounding like it would probably be best to use their solution at this point, to use Checkout here, you would need to build logic on your server for building and handling carts. Squarespace likely has something pre-built for this or at least plugins that can help you here