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• josula_api, 6 days ago, 23 messages

[fiery idol]

👋 happy to help

are you manually creating the invoice?

[timid spruce]

Nope

all via API

our flow is:

1. check if customer exists (via stripe id), if not create customer, else return stripe customer
2. create invoice via API
3. Add invoice items via API
4. finalise invoice

[fiery idol]

what I meant by manually creating the invoice is mainly in relation to whether this is related or not to subscriptions

[timid spruce]

No

we do not have subs

[fiery idol]

this is called manual invoice

[timid spruce]

its one time payments

    const invoice = await stripe.invoices.create({
      customer: stripeCustomer.id,
      collection_method: "send_invoice",
      auto_advance: false,
      currency: "eur",
      days_until_due: new Decimal(30).toNumber(),
      shipping_cost: {
        shipping_rate_data: {
          display_name: cart.shipping_methods?.[0]?.name || "Versand",
          type: "fixed_amount",
          fixed_amount: {
            amount: new Decimal(cart.shipping_methods?.[0]?.amount as number)
              .times(100)
              .toNumber(),
            currency: "eur",
          },
        },
      },
      custom_fields: [
        ...(cart.metadata?.internal_order_id
          ? [
              {

Does that make sense? See how we can only link it to a single customer via id? I would love to assign the customer but also set an invoice email here that takes precedence over the customer's email but the invoice should be still linked to the customer object.

[fiery idol]

I know what you mean

[timid spruce]

Is there a best practice for that? 😅

[fiery idol]

unfortunately that's not possible today 😦

[timid spruce]

So what would you do? Update the customer's email every single time?

Or create a new customer object?

both seems very error prone

[fiery idol]

I agree with you

but we don't have any other solutions today for that

this is really good feedback to submit to https://support.stripe.com/?contact=true