starinje-inventory | Stripe Developers | Page 1

fallow moss Oct 8, 2021, 3:24 PM

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dim gulch Oct 8, 2021, 3:26 PM

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Not immediately sure. Can you expand a bit about what you want to keep in sync?

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I think we don't have a product specifically for this at the moment. Do you have more details on what questions you have on what this syncing process might look like?

scarlet anchor Oct 8, 2021, 3:33 PM

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So for example our platform maintains a record of Customers and Inventory items. We want to be able to generate a Stripe invoice via the Stripe API. In order to do that I am thinking we will need to create correlating Stripe Customers and Products in the Stripe ecosystem and then make sure the two data-sets stay in sync.

dim gulch Oct 8, 2021, 3:37 PM

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Customers would likely be easier, you can associate your customer record with a Stripe customer ID and use webhooks to get updates on that Customer https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks

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Pricing can definitely be more complicated based on your pricing model

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But that should still be pretty similar, making sure that a price in your system is created in Stripe and vice versa.

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Let me know if you have more specific questions on how to accomplish this

scarlet anchor Oct 8, 2021, 3:46 PM

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ok got it - yes Customers makes sense that we would need to maintain records in both systems.

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For products, say we have 15,000 item in our inventory, do we need to create all of those items as Products in Stripe in order to add them to an invoice?

fallow moss Oct 8, 2021, 3:51 PM

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Yes we recommend having your entire product catalog in Stripe. Once it's synced it's fairly straightforward to keep them aligned and you get a lot out of unified reporting and tracking product usage and such as you put the right price(s) on invoices/subscriptions

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