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[night mesa]

Hi, let me help you with this.

What do you mean by "invoices" in this case? Please describe the user flow.

[coral parcel]

so we have some customers that cannot use paypal, card, etc...
they need to have an invoice generated so they can send it to their finance department for them to then send us money

so the user in our case is the HR department in a company, who are using our HRtech software, and they want to do a purchase using our stripe-hosted checkout page

but since they are not in charge of finances, they need to ask their finance department for paying

and they can only do that by generating an invoice for them that they can share to their finance colleagues to pay

we thought bank_transfer would do that but apparently it doesn't generate an invoice (before payment, we are aware that we can use invoice_creation: {enabled: true} to create an invoice upon successful payment)

is that clear?

[night mesa]

You can use Stripe Billing to generate Invoices. Each Invoice has its own hosted page, for payments. And you can use bank transfers as one of the payment method types to pay for it.
https://docs.stripe.com/invoicing/integration

[coral parcel]

can we generate invoices through stripe checkout?

or do we have to use the invoicing API only

[night mesa]

Why do you want to generate it via Stripe Checkout exactly?
Invoices have their own payment page.

[coral parcel]

the user flow dictates that^

they land on stripe checkout after filling their cart

and now we want to generate an invoice that they can process manually