Ian Kaplan - Self-Hosted Checkout | Stripe Developers | Page 1

subtle venture Sep 28, 2021, 9:22 PM

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Hello! Generally this is something you would manage on your end in your own code/cart system. You mentioned Invoices though, are you talking about Stripe Invoices?

lapis fog Sep 28, 2021, 9:23 PM

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yes

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stripe invoices

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that part was not specific

subtle venture Sep 28, 2021, 9:26 PM

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Are these one-off Invoices or Invoices belonging to Subscriptions?

lapis fog Sep 28, 2021, 9:46 PM

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we have some items that are one-off and also subscriptions

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it would be possible to checkout one-offs and subscriptions in the same session ideally

subtle venture Sep 28, 2021, 9:54 PM

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This is certainly possible, but what you're asking covers a lot of ground.

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First I recommend you read how Stripe Subscriptions work: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/overview

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Actually, point of clarification, when you say "self hosted checkout" you mean a checkout page you built on your end, right?

lapis fog Sep 28, 2021, 9:59 PM

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Yes

subtle venture Sep 28, 2021, 9:59 PM

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Yeah, okay, so that Subscriptions guide is where you should start. 🙂

lapis fog Sep 28, 2021, 10:00 PM

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I know it involves creating an invoice maybe from an invoice maybe not and managing the cart by updating the returned payment intent

subtle venture Sep 28, 2021, 10:04 PM

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Oh, you mean for one-off payments not involving a Subscription?

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We have information about that here, although I don't think people typically use Invoices with carts: https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/overview

lapis fog Sep 28, 2021, 10:05 PM

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How do they do it?

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https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-intents

subtle venture Sep 28, 2021, 10:06 PM

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For one-off purchases people typically use Payment Intents, yeah. They handle the cart logic, totals, etc. on their end and create a Payment Intent to charge the final amount.

lapis fog Sep 28, 2021, 10:07 PM

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And subscriptions are handled differently then

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But you could draft an invoice no?

subtle venture Sep 28, 2021, 10:07 PM

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Yep, for Subscriptions you create a Subscription in Stripe, and that Subscription will generate Invoices to charge people for each recurring period.

lapis fog Sep 28, 2021, 10:07 PM

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And use the attatched payment intent?

subtle venture Sep 28, 2021, 10:07 PM

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You could create a single Invoice for a one-off payment, yes.

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Yep.

lapis fog Sep 28, 2021, 10:08 PM

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But if I were to combine all items on one invoice would it be anything beyond adding invoice items to the invoice?

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I haven’t checked but can I add a recurring price invoice item to an invoice and will a subscription be created or will it error?

subtle venture Sep 28, 2021, 10:09 PM

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No, that won't work. You need to create a Subscription for recurring payments.

lapis fog Sep 28, 2021, 10:09 PM

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Ok

subtle venture Sep 28, 2021, 10:09 PM

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Subscriptions generate Invoices, not the other way around.

lapis fog Sep 28, 2021, 10:10 PM

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Got it

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