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plain totem Sep 17, 2021, 2:59 AM

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Hi, could you clarify about your question a bit. Is that you asking how to select shipping rates while creating a Checkout Session?

spare gust Sep 17, 2021, 3:04 AM

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The problem is that the shipping rate needs to be sent at time of checkout session creation. The shipping address is collected on the checkout page. I am wondering how I can make a thoughtful shipping rate selection if I am not able to know the customers address at this point in the checkout flow

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I have considered creating a more complex and custom checkout flow with the PayementIntents api but it seems like then I would miss out on the StripeTax feature and have to pay for those calculations elsewhere. So I want to double check with you and make sure that there is really no way to do this with the checkout API before I decide to go that route or change processors.

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appreciate any insight you have 🙂

plain totem Sep 17, 2021, 3:07 AM

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I see, that totally make senses. Let me look into it further

spare gust Sep 17, 2021, 3:10 AM

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thank you

plain totem Sep 17, 2021, 3:18 AM

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I can't find any possible solution to actively choose Shipping rates after letting the customer select billing address. You might need to build your own Checkout flow, collect the users' billing address then choose the shipping rates yourself, then create PaymentIntent underneath

spare gust Sep 17, 2021, 3:20 AM

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yeah i think it is something like that. I just keep getting stuck on various issues. For example I cant create shipping rates or retrieve their ids from the api so any rate needs to be predefined and the id copied through the dashboard

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that means I cant provide the customer with the real rates from a third party processor unless I add them as regular line items

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so maybe it is just that checkout is not for me but I am surprised that it is not possible to take shipping location into consideration prior to selecting shipping rate. That is going to be something almost everyone needs

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thanks for your looking into it

plain totem Sep 17, 2021, 3:23 AM

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Regarding the problem of creating shipping rates via API, it is actually on our queue with requests from other users as well. The responsible team is aware of it and we may provide in the future!

spare gust Sep 17, 2021, 3:24 AM

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cool 👍

plain totem Sep 17, 2021, 3:25 AM

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I agree that there is limitation on Checkout Session. It's built as a convenience way for major usage. But as you go complex and tailored, you will normally want more control over things/flow, then you would want to build a flow yourself. All that meant to say, it's completely normal thing, and we are always trying to cover the most common pattern as we can

spare gust Sep 17, 2021, 3:28 AM

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yeah I think I can see the path to what I need if I only use stripe to process the payment and utilize some other services for the tax and shipping calculations.

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but this is why i am surprised and confused because all i am trying to do is sell a small selection of physical products within the united states. In terms of common patterns I suspect almost every online retailer needs to take shipping location into consideration when determining their shipping rate. Anyway just my two cents and my problem. Thanks again for checking.

plain totem Sep 17, 2021, 3:35 AM

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Np, I will flag this to the team as well!

spare gust Sep 17, 2021, 3:36 AM

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thanks i appreciate that 🙂

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im sure they will improve/fix it as soon as i spend the next week figuring out my workaround 😉

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and i will be grateful

plain totem Sep 17, 2021, 3:58 AM

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Btw in the Doc: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/shipping

Add shipping

Learn to use shipping rates and collect shipping addresses with Checkout.

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you can see 2 notice about reach out to us for experimenting Beta

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Make sure to use that link to leverage the Beta if you want

spare gust Sep 17, 2021, 4:01 AM

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thank you I will consider reaching out to those emails

spare gust Sep 17, 2021, 5:42 PM

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I was able to reach out to the multiple shipping options beta email but that email linked for the shipping rates beta "shipping-rates-beta@stripe.com" bounces back 😦

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