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heavy galleon
hey there synthrider, thanks for helping out
warm fog
Hey there
heavy galleon
is there a way to have an invoice that is paid via a terminal reader?
I know how to get a PI paid, but I can't seem to create an invoice annd use it's PI to send to the reader
warm fog
Unfortunately not currently, invoices cannot be paid with terminal & card present cards
heavy galleon
so all we can do right now is send a manually created PI to the reader?
and there's no way to attach a reader PI to an invoice?
like I know I can mark an invoice as paid (out of band), but I'd love to "attache" the PI to it even after the fact?
warm fog
Correct -- that's not currently possible. I can share feedback that you're looking for this functionality though.
Where do you collect payments, geographically?
heavy galleon
oh ya, for sure, otherwise there's no way to link anything together
like if we are at a trade show and want to start a subscription and collect payment on the floor via the reader
how would we do that?
heavy galleon
Where do you collect payments, geographically?
in the US
warm fog
One option would be to use the reader to collect the payment method without payment then use that to pay the invoice
https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/features/saving-cards/save-cards-directly
In the US, if you can also save a card for later off-session use during a reader payment:
https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/features/saving-cards/save-after-payment
heavy galleon
kk don't go away, let me read this, one sec please
ok so the steps would be:
- create invoice line items
- create invoice
- create setupintent, send to reader to get payment method
- pay the invoice with the payment method from the setupintent?
warm fog
yep, exactly
heavy galleon
ok then I can set the invoice to auto-collect cuz we pass in a verified payment method
...and it would w/ subscriptions to, on the invoice
ok, next question, can an invoice have one time payments AND subscription prices on it?
@warm fog
warm fog
Yes, but
You would not create the invoice directly in that case
You'd create the subscription which produces the invoice automatically
Then pay that invoice
heavy galleon
sure that's for the invoice, but what about the one time payments? those need another invoice, right?
warm fog
So use the flipped perspective: you include one-time items on a recurring subscription invoice
warm fog
And invoice is tied to only one subscription, yes, but may include one-time items
just a sec
With add_invoice_items when creating the subscription:
https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-add_invoice_items
You can also add items to future invoices, if that's relevant to your flow
heavy galleon
ah ok, so if we want to have MULTIPLE subscriptions AND one time payments, we'd create one subscription, and pass in the one time payments, then another subscription for the other invoice
warm fog
Yep, exactly
If you spin up multiple subscriptions for one customer for whatever reason (note you can have multiple recurring items on a single subscription) you'd have 2 (or more) invoice to pay
heavy galleon
a single subscription w/ multiple items? how does that work if the period is different?
warm fog
That's one limitation, they need to have the same recurring period
heavy galleon
right ok, that makes sense
so "safer" to just make a new one with each one, in our use case
heavy galleon
ok thanks, you've been very helpful
warm fog
NP - happy to help!
heavy galleon
that works great, thanks!