#johnpauljay_online-payments-tipping
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- johnpauljay_api, 4 hours ago, 6 messages
ionic lance
Hi 👋
What Stripe product are you using? How are you creating payments?
round sentinel
We're using Connect. We haven't decided yet on creating payments, because we're unsure of best method for including online tipping. We need to do this without a terminal.
ionic lance
We don't have the concept of a tip outside of Terminal. You could implement the logic yourself either by simply increasing the amount of a Payment Intent or creating a separate line item for an Invoice or in a Checkout Session.
The payment piece is the most critical for understanding what to recommend here.
round sentinel
What are our options for creating payments here? & so we would have to create the UI from scratch. There is no prebuilt UI from Stripe for tipping that we can use?
ionic lance
Not for tipping no
round sentinel
Ok, so based on capabilities would we have to build a custom payment flow with Stripe Elements? vs using an embedded form with Stripe Checkout.
ionic lance
That entirely depends on you. Sorry we focus on specific API integration questions from developers here on this server so it is difficult for me to discuss these more abstract questions.
There are multiple potential solutions but I think you'd need to review the different payment UIs stripe has to offer to better understand what suits your needs
For example. you can make some line items adjustable in Checkout https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout/adjustable-quantity
Or even allow customers to specify what to pay for specific items
https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout/pay-what-you-want
That seems like tipping to me but I don't know if that fits your use case
round sentinel
these don't solve our problem, because we want users to be able to add a tip during Checkout while viewing their initial balance. similar to the terminal flow, but with online payments without a terminal.
ionic lance
Then you'd need to build that yourself
round sentinel
I think we will have to go with Elements, because of the styling flexibility.
Got it, so there is no existing framework or documentation we can reference.
ionic lance
Not that I'm aware of, no.
round sentinel
ah surprising, this isn't a popular use-case
ionic lance
I think adding it on top of Elements would make sense. Like a Cart component or something like that
round sentinel
Ok, thanks for the help!
ionic lance
Happy to shed what 💡 I can 🙂