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quasi robin
Why are you creating both a payment intent and invoice?
You can collect payment with the invoice
When you create both, that's technically creating 2 payments
Invoices are build on top of payment intents, so the invoice is already creating one
jolly hound
I prepared this to share, here is what I did on both server and client sides
quasi robin
Creating both doesn't really make sense though
Unless you want to collect payment twice
jolly hound
Ok, no that was not my intention.
I'm quite a newbie with these things.
My intention was to send the invoice to the customer by email right after the payment is validated.
quasi robin
Do you need them to receive an actual invoice or just a receipt of the payment?
jolly hound
an actual invoice
quasi robin
So the only way to have stripe email your customer an invoice is if you want them to complete payment via the invoice link in the email
But if you want to collect payment on your site and them have them receive an invoice after payment, you'll need to use your own email service to send the invoice link
jolly hound
Ha ok.
The second option is more appropriate to my case.
quasi robin
Got it. So you can create the invoice and then use its underlying payment intent & client secret to accept payment on your site: https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-payment_intent
Then once they complete payment you can send them an email with a link to the invoice's pdf: https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-invoice_pdf
jolly hound
Sorry, this must be all done manually ?
I'm confused, I was thinking I could generate them on the fly, like sending a receipt, but perhaps I'm wrong
quasi robin
Yeah
You can generate your own pdf if you just want to use payment intents
But if the intent is to accept payments on your site and you want them to also receive an invoice via email, you need to handle that part yourself
jolly hound
Ok got it.
So then, coming back to your question (receipt vs invoice), if I want at least to send a receipt by email, is this possible via an endpoint ?
quasi robin
You can set it up so that after completing payment we automatically send the customer an email with the receipt.https://docs.stripe.com/receipts?payment-ui=direct-api
That can be used with the payment intents endpoint
Invoices wouldn't be necessary
jolly hound
ok I see. Will try that then, thank you!