Beninate-automatic_tax

[orchid imp]

That sounds like it is expecting a price object https://stripe.com/docs/api/prices

I'm guessing here you are providing the price data (amount and such) at the time of making this call?

[heady slate]

we are providing line_items when creating a session, each with their own amount

like such as

    cart.cart_items.each do |cart_item|
      line_items << {
        name: 'Foo',
        description: 'Bar',
        amount: 1000,
        currency: 'usd',
        quantity: 1,
      }
    end

    stripe_session = Stripe::Checkout::Session.create(
      line_items: line_items,
      automatic_tax: {
        enabled: true
      },
    )

[orchid imp]

There we go, that is what I was trying to describe. When it says "when not using prices" it is referring to the fact that it wants you to pass in the id of a Price object to the line items price param rather than using the price_data fields like amount and currency https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create?lang=node#create_checkout_session-line_items-price

[heady slate]

oooh. So for each item (of a different price) available to purchase in our "shop", we should create a formal Price object, and reference that?

[orchid imp]

Correct, if you want to use automatic_tax you'll need them to be those price objects

[heady slate]

understood, thanks for the clarification, i had no idea

one more question, should we also be creating a Product for every item, or that's optional?

[orchid imp]

It depends on how you want to structure it.

Each price will have to be attached to a product though so yes if each of these are distinct products you are selling one per price will make sense

[heady slate]

Creating Products might make things a lot easier for tracking sales of specific items and whatnot, so we may do that, since i have to create Prices anyway

thanks for the clarification, sorry for being a pain 🙂