#LMF-payment-link
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Payment Links don't currently support API creation, its dashboard only
The customer create api is defined here: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/create
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Yes, that's what I used.
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but you can't associate payment link usage to specific customers, that's not currently supported
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its the same link for everyone and creates a new customer
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Should be a feature.
Letting me specify the existing customer_id would have been much much much simpler.
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The payment Links team is working hard to add tons of new features, including an API, but it isnt ready yet
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They could have clicked a button and paid...
Instead they'll have to open an email for the invoice?
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You can still use Checkout sessions to create subscriptions
From the user perspective they click a button, but you need to set up the session/customer etc
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I have a customer setup
No sessions yet, I want a really minimal example just to prove it works.
https://github.com/stripe-samples/checkout-single-subscription
This has a lot of bloat.
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Well, all you need is the price to create the checkout session, then redirect your customer. you can cut out as much of that example as you like
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I have the price_id
What's the bare minimum to do it?
With price_id and customer_id already accessible?
Most basic example.
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the server snippet there
create the session with mode=subscription and use the price in a single line item, provide the customer, then redirect
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np!
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create the session with `mode=subscription` and use the price in a single line i...
When you say "provide the customer" can you be more specific?
Portal takes a customer_id, Checkout does not seem to take it so obviously.
Looking through here now.
client_reference_id
Got it, thank you.
Not true.
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no, customer
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client_reference_id is
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both use customer parameter
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For an arbitrary/internal id
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you can use client_reference_id or metadata
up to you!
customer is for a stripe customer id
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Yes sir, I got that already.
I make a customer account when someone registers.
Hope that's okay 😄
For some reason checkout does not seem to be as easy to find as the others.
ah
it's .sessions.
The docs are right.
but i originally copied it from somewhere that's wrong...
Ah yes, you can't use Python version in Node... another missing feature. 😉
Thanks for all the help.
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haha yep darn languages