#jamesroper_api
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strong arch
To clarify - I only need to allow customers to view their previous purchases, and view and update their billing information
wild warren
Hi, taking a look here
Are you asking how you can extract the customer billing data to then use it on your app?
strong arch
If needs be I can manually extract it and set up my own viewing and editing page, but I was hoping there was a way to embed the formats from Stripe (for example the following for billing details, allowing customers to view and edit them directly on Stripe from within our app):
If not, where can I find all the necessary details (such as lists of countries accepted and the country formats, phone number format etc)
That I would need to set up my own billing details editor for instance
and invoice viewer
And if this isn't feasible, how can i allow users to view their invoices and update their billing details?
wild warren
You can look at Address Elements, and for invoices, you can use Stripe Customer Portal, https://docs.stripe.com/customer-management as well depending on how you want to build these. Are you able to look at these and let me know what questions you have.
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wild warren
Ah, from within your app, you likely want to make a retrieve call, https://docs.stripe.com/api/customers/retrieve. You can surface that address and then when they update it, you can use your own UI to then update the address on the customer.
strong arch
So in the Customer portal, the example seems to show the customer can only interact with their invoices, can I configure another one which allows customers to interact with their billing details?
business_profile={
"headline": "Cactus Practice partners with Stripe for simplified billing.",
},
features={"invoice_history": {"enabled": True}},
)```Also, will this open a page separately from the app?
wild warren
yes, it's a separate page.
yes, you can set the configuration, https://docs.stripe.com/api/customer_portal/configurations/create#create_portal_configuration-features-customer_update-allowed_updates to update the address.
strong arch
OK I will make my own UI for billing details and figure out the format of the different fields from the documentation.
For viewing invoices on the other hand - how can I embed a table of invoices in my app?
Or at least, if I need to make such a table myself, how can I extract the necessary information from a customer's profile? Also, can the invoice for each payment be viewed/downloaded as a pdf?
grizzled karma
Hello! I'm taking over and catching up...
You can list Invoices by customer: https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/list
If you do that I recommend you use auto-pagination: https://docs.stripe.com/api/pagination/auto
Each Invoice has an invoice_pdf property which contains a URL to a PDF of that Invoice: https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-invoice_pdf
strong arch
Amazing, thank you
grizzled karma
Happy to help!
strong arch
Also, given customers will typically only purchase from us once of twice a year (as our product is software), is there a way to create an invoice immediately after each purchase and include this in the confirmation email we send when they make a purchase? Also would make more sense to have the invoice table I make update immediately. I presume automatically invoices are made at the end of each month or similar?
grizzled karma
Are you charging them yearly with a Subscription, or are you creating the Invoices manually/directly?
strong arch
They will be manually paying each time as it might not be the same date each year (at least that's the plan for now)
I have set up embedded payments, and I can see the transactions in test mode and everything appears to be working. But I notice there aren't any invoices available for any of the test customers I've made despite them having transactions
grizzled karma
Can you give me the ID of one of those test mode transactions so I can take a look?
grizzled karma
That's a Payment Method ID, which represents payment information. It's not specific to a single transaction. Do you have a Payment Intent ID (starts with pi_)?
strong arch
pi_3OyzlwP7FVbVKqaz08YjrETw
grizzled karma
Ah, okay, so that Payment Intent was created by a Checkout Session which you created here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_baN9m1r4JIl6u5
If you want an Invoice for that payment you need to set invoice_creation.enabled on that Checkout Session: https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-invoice_creation
See here for more info: https://docs.stripe.com/receipts?payment-ui=checkout#paid-invoices
strong arch
Thanks, will work through that