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untold steeple
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Reference Code:

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Product creation looks like so:

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covert root
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Because Products don't have an amount associated with them, Price objects are what tell us how much to charge and in what currency

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If you use SessionCreateParams.LineItem.Price instead of PriceData you can just pass the price ID that you created before.

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Oh whoops I may have misread that and you may not be creating Price object

untold steeple
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Correct, no worries.

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basically I created a product

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and I want my checkout to use that product

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and the issue isn't setting the product (that seems to work fine)

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the issue is that after calling .setProduct(), I have to also call .setCurrency() and .setUnitAmount() for the PriceData builder. But I already provided both of these thigns when I made the product

covert root
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Can you send me the product ID from a product that you set that on? Products don't have amounts or currencies, so you may have used some parameter that automatically creates a Price object

untold steeple
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is there any way to just use the Product's Price information as ground truth?

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I see it has a price associated with it

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and it's probably because of that 2nd screenshot -- I used the DefaultPriceData builder

covert root
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Ah there we go, I see you created a default price in your creation request
https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_yfuP0xxIFZP9Ep
So what your code will want to do is get the price_ ID from default_price.id in the object that is returned by that call when you make it, you can then pass that ID to the SessionCreateParams.LineItem.Price field that I mentioned earlier

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I am not as familiar with our java syntax but can help figure more out about what that would look like if you are having trouble translating

untold steeple
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so basically, I should just save the price id as well as the product id

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while that's fine, that seems like unexpected behavior

covert root
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I forget how exactly default prices work but this is definitely how manually passing price IDs is expected to work. Looking in to that and will get back to you.

untold steeple
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seems like I'll have to do another API call then (or I save the created price object's id)

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but then it makes me wonder, what's the point of specifying the default price?

covert root
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Yep, that is what I am trying to figure out. I didn't find a mention in our docs about what the default does so I have reached out to colleagues

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will get back with what we can find

untold steeple
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it also seems easier to just manually respecify the price as I did in my screenshot above (since our systems also store the intended price).

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any reason to not do that?

covert root
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It looks like that default field is only used by our dashboard to prioritize the price when doing things like creating PaymentLinks

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If you are making charges at the same amount it is typically reccommended to use the actual price object. The reason mostly being that it makes certain things easier like searching for Checkout Sessions that used the price or running certain reports

untold steeple
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I see. wish there was a way to just directly reference that price without needing to also save the price object id

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but fair enough

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that answers my questions

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thanks

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actually

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wait one more question

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how do I set the product when I directly use the price?

covert root
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You don't need to, Prices can only be assosciated with one product so we know to use the product ID that is assosciated with the price

untold steeple
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oh I see -- so if I make a promo code for a specific product only, it should only work for checkouts with that product?

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even if I don't pass in the product id?

covert root
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Correct, we check if the price is for that product and that is what determines if the coupon can be applied