#b33fb0n3_best-practices
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- b33fb0n3_unexpected, 5 days ago, 29 messages
wheat jay
What specifically is the different between a 'private' customer and a 'business'? Do you need to collect different info or something?
pine sapphire
Yes. I have for example a digital coupon, that the customer can buy. When it’s a private customer, then he just enters right now his email and his payment details. He also accepts the terms. After the payment, he receives a confirmation email from stripe about the successful payment.
For a business customer it would be nearly the same except, that he will receive an invoice about this and on this invoice there need to be in every case (even for digital products) his address and stuff
wheat jay
You're likely looking for this for invoice generation: https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout/receipts?payment-ui=stripe-hosted#paid-invoices-hosted
pine sapphire
You're likely looking for this for invoice generation: https://docs.stripe.com/p...
Oh thanks, yea, that’s what I am looking for. Will emails be send out in sandbox as well, so I can test them?
If I do it like that, how does stripe know when to collect additional information for businesses like address, name, … so it’s a valid invoice?
wheat jay
Oh thanks, yea, that’s what I am looking for. Will emails be send out in sandbox...
They're not, no. But you can manually trigger the email from the invoice page in Dashboard
wheat jay
If I do it like that, how does stripe know *when* to collect additional informat...
Well that's up to you to tell us what to collect. For example, you can configure Checkout to collect a business name: https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout/name-collection
Tax IDs too if relevant: https://docs.stripe.com/tax/checkout/tax-ids
So you'd need to know ahead of session creation what type of customer they are, then generate the session with the corresponding params
pine sapphire
Ok sounds great. Give me a moment to check that
pine sapphire
That works great. Thanks! 🙏