#dorian6730_best-practices
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nova sluice
Hi there!
marble drift
HEY HEY!
nova sluice
PaymentIntents are more of a "low level" object type, so it's only possible to pass an amount, not price or quantity like you would with a Subscription or Invoice
marble drift
Ah ok
So in the case where it isnt a subscription, and I want items (price and quantity) to appear on the receipt, do I instead need to create an invoice and if so, can the invoice be immediately charged to a payment method that I pass in and will I get an immediate success/failure response (in the case of card)?
nova sluice
You could look into adding a description for your PaymentIntent. The description value should propagate to the receipt you send: https://docs.stripe.com/receipts?payment-ui=direct-api#customizing-receipts
marble drift
I'd like to display indiovidual line items (I already do this for subscriptions)
nova sluice
Actually, the description value will propagate to the Charge object, and this is what's used for the receipt
Ah, I see
marble drift
Can I create a one-time invoice that is immediately charged and pass in prices and quantities?
nova sluice
You could if you're creating an Invoice for an existing Customer where that Customer already has a saved PaymentMethod
marble drift
Yes I will have both customer and payment method already
nova sluice
Got it. For instances where you need to collect PaymentMethod details from your customers, you could look into using Checkout and use invoice_creation: https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-invoice_creation
Another option could be to build out these receipts on your end altogether. That would give you more control overall but would require more dev resources