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raven hollow
I see I can create a payment intent first then pass that into my checkout session
Where do you see this? Checkout doesn't support passing in a pre-created Payment Intent.
but I'd rather create the stripe checkout session first
This is how Checkout works. Checkout creates a payment intent. You don't pass one in.
Are you using Stripe Tax?
Or do you just want to store tax data in metadata in Stripe and use some 3rd party tax provider?
reef flare
ha sorry, didn't get notifications here on the thread.
reef flare
`I see I can create a payment intent first then pass that into my checkout sessi...
I must have been mis-reading the interface associated with the typescript here. Good to know!
reef flare
Are you using Stripe Tax?
Yep!
Yea my hope here was in some scenarios I'm shipping direct to a customer so I want that customers tax information to be used based on their shipping address, and others i have a handful of customers paying but they are all shipping to one specific state. I want to reflect that shipping address on those ordres.
so in some cases i'm using the collect_shipping param, but in others I want to remove that, apply the actual shipping address (which I thought was done via paymentIntents)
raven hollow
others i have a handful of customers paying but they are all shipping to one specific state
So basically for these customers you have their shipping address stored ahead of time and you just want to pass it through so they don't have to provide it in Checkout?
reef flare
Exactly; or in my case it's a team order. 30 team members all placing an order, and shipping to the team managers address.
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stone shore
Hello! I'm taking over and catching up...
reef flare
tldr:
I have 2 ways I want to collect tax.
- Based on the purchasers shipping address
- Based on a pre-defined shipping address
I have the first working, based on shipping_address_collection, but for the second i am hoping to define the address.
stone shore
Yeah, I don't think the second thing is possible with Checkout. You can't pre-fill or set a shipping address, it needs to be supplied by the customer inside Checkout.
reef flare
hmm, am I just solving the wrong problem? I'm trying to get the proper tax information and using the shipping information to do that.
Is there a way to pre-calculate that tax via another API and apply that way vs just using automatic_tax param on the checkout session
stone shore
Tax calculations are typically based on the shipping address provided at Checkout.
No, you can't calculate it ahead of time with Checkout.
reef flare
shucks, so I'd have to move off checkout in order to achieve this?
stone shore
Yep.
reef flare
or could i create the checkout session, retreive and update the payment intents shipping address?
stone shore
No, you can't update the shipping address at that point, the tax will have already been calculated.
You would need to not use Checkout and instead use the Tax API combined with a custom payment form: https://docs.stripe.com/tax/custom