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violet remnant
Hi there 👋 what type of integration did you build, or asked another way how are you accepting payments?
umbral delta
this is a new build
we want it as simple as possible
this is for accepting payments for registering for events (smallish, couple hundred people) once a year
I am a developer, but I have never worked with any of this
currently I had it set up for just payment links for each possible type of registration. But then when two of us tested it with real registrations, we seen there was no way to visually confirm the customer information in stripe with the information in our backend
that would end up being a nightmare to manage without any way to reconcile who actually paid
if we could pass a parameter with an ID unique to that customer and it be available on the UI that is good enough for manual reconcilation
violet remnant
Yeah, you can't do that with Payment Links, they're designed to be usable by multiple customers. Checkout Sessions are the closest approach to Payment Links, and you can provide a Customer ID when creating those:
https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-customer
This guide walks through the general flow for using those:
https://docs.stripe.com/payments/accept-a-payment?platform=web&ui=stripe-hosted&lang=dotnet
umbral delta
how does that work with ASP.NET vs Core framework?
your documentation is very different as it is for Core MVC and that is not what we have
violet remnant
I don't know, I'm not familiar with the differences in the frameworks.
umbral delta
okay, I'll give you that... you may not be a full stack dev or even a .NET dev so you would not know the difference. But there is. My site is older framework since it doesn't need a porche engine only a good solid Ford.
hopefully I can figure it out .. because everything is confusing.
One other question, how can I test this?
I would rather be able to run some tests end to end without actually charging a credit card
violet remnant
The last step of the guide discusses testing, including providing several of our test cards/payment methods that you can use when operating in testmode.
If you need additional test cards/payment methods, you can find more here:
https://docs.stripe.com/testing