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orchid willow
Hello
Hosted invoice page is not really very customisable. You should look into building your own page if you want granular control 🙂
This is all you can customize with Hosted Invoice Page: https://docs.stripe.com/invoicing/hosted-invoice-page#page-customization
fresh mica
What about the idea of setting the "Already Paid" field myself instead of generating a negative line item?
orchid willow
I'm not sure I grasp what you're describing.. Do you have an example or screenshot so that I am on the same page?
fresh mica
I thought I uploaded a screenshot but I guess it didn't take. I'll try again...
"Amount paid" second line from the bottom. I didn't see any way to set that myself in the invoice creation params.
orchid willow
Ah yeah, that is not something you'd be able to customize..
Based on your usecase, you'd benefit from just building your own UI versus using hosted invoice page
fresh mica
Is that something I'd have to use Stripe Elements to do?
Could I generate a payment intent and include this invoice id on it, and then manually set the status to succeeded to get the Amount paid to populate?
orchid willow
If you create an invoice and finalize it then it should generate an associated PaymentIntent automatically which you can use with Elements
I don't know what you mean by
then manually set the status to succeeded to get the Amount paid to populate?
fresh mica
I was just trying to think of a way to make the "Amount paid" populate. I mean, if I generate the invoice and grab the payment intent id, and then apply a payment to it (such as, say, $500 in the example from the screenshot) would that make "Amount paid" populate with $500?
orchid willow
Hmm you can't partially pay the invoice with a PaymentElement afaik.. The PaymentIntent generated by the invoice will set the amount that would be charged to the PaymentMethod collected by PaymentElement
fresh mica
I guess my question then is, is it ever possible for the Amount paid field to be anything besides 0 or the entire invoice total? If so, how does that happen?
orchid willow
I don't think I've seen that happen myself, no..
But it is possible for usecase like if the customer has a credit balance which automatically applies to the next finalized invoice
fresh mica
Okay, so it's not something I would ever be able to modify myself through the API.
And when you say I need to build my own UI, I would have to use Stripe Elements for that, correct?
orchid willow
Correct..
Ah I think that amount paid line is probably used by Payment Plans beta: https://docs.stripe.com/invoicing/payment-plans?testing-method=without-code#tracking-partially-paid-invoices
This allows partially paid invoices
fresh mica
Yeah, I know about the beta and I'm on the list to get updates about it, but my boss doesn't want me to use it until it's fully supported.
orchid willow
I see I see. I was curious too 😅
fwiw, customer balance is also reflected separately so it has to be the beta
fresh mica
Lol yeah, it seems to be a completely useless field at this point. Just raising false hope.
orchid willow
😅 anything else I can help with?
fresh mica
No, I think that's it. Thanks so much for checking into it for me.