#elena-invoice
mighty blaze
@karmic wraith I dont see how I would do that?
so say a user wants invoice. I send him a email with my own template invoice mail, with payment amount and product info. But when the user is going to pay, how am I supposed to make him pay? I guess I could redirect user to my website and then he does a payment intent? But this wont register a invoice in stripe? It would be ideal if i could a list of the incoming and completed invoices in stripe dashboard
karmic wraith
You can create an invoice in the API and pay it, you don't need the hosted invoice page for it. It just works
An Invoice has a PaymentIntent automatically created for it and that's what the customer would pay
I have to go for the day but @late sail on my team is taking over!
late sail
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mighty blaze
Heyo nice to meet u
late sail
Hi!
mighty blaze
So I wanna make my own invoice system. I dont like redirects to other sites, i think it looks unprofessional
so when user gets the invoice in mail
the best solution would be to redirect user to my website, and then create a invoice with the invoice API?
which under the hood creates a payment intent?
late sail
Yes, you can think Invoice and PaymentIntent in Stripe as objects. You create them, manage them inside your Stripe account. You can have your own website, and create Stripe's Invoice object under the hood with API
and yes an Invoice object will generate a PaymentIntent object
mighty blaze
I have an app aswell that also uses payment intent
can i use the same paymentintent solution, to make users pay the invoice aswell?
late sail
Are you talking about ios/android app or web app?
mighty blaze
ios and android
late sail
that bottomsheet is PaymentSheet, right?
late sail
I am imaging what you want to do is, inside your app let's say you have a button, when user tap it you want to display a website on your own, and when user perform action from the website you want to create an Invoice?
mighty blaze
is it possible to initialize a invoice, instead of payment intent? that would be awesome. Cuz else i dont know how to make the payment in the app. I suppose I could also just redirect user to the website instead
A user can decide to pay with card right now or get an invoice
I have already integrated the payment system, so now user can pay with card
but i need to offer invoice aswell
so when user choose invoice, he gets invoice on his email
then i need to redirect user to my website again
late sail
Yeah, totally understand
mighty blaze
but is it possible to initalize a invoice payment, the same way i initalize that paymentsheet?
late sail
it will be a bit different
mighty blaze
if i want to offer invoice payment in app. I could also just ignore using the app for invoice, and redirect user to website instead to complete
late sail
when will you want your customer to be able to choose between card versus invoice? Before opening that PaymentSheet, right?
late sail
Okie, Invoice API can be (and should be) controlled by backend. You could design whatever UI on the app, or design a website and let your app redirect to it, to ping an endpoint on your backend. And do the logic of creating Invoice in your backend
Creating an Invoice is a process of 1. Create a Customer and a Price 2. Create an Invoice Item then an Invoice
What you should send to backend is customer_id if you already have one, and the price data you want to charge.
and in your backend, you can do 2 steps above to create an Invoice object, against that customer with that price data
mighty blaze
I see
late sail
I think this article could help you with an overview on Invoice API: https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/integration
You will notice all sample code here is in Server side
mighty blaze
When user clicks on link on email, and is redirected to my website. Ones i have collected card details, and send request to backend, do i use the stripe.invoices.payInVoice?
which takes a invoice id
late sail
Yes that's the API to pay the Invoice
you will need to supply the Invoice Id of the Invoice you created earlier
mighty blaze
why doesnt the stripe API have intellisense?
i dont get any recommendations on my server
The "collection_method" defaults to "charge_automatically", and user will be sent a stripe invoice. How can i disable this auto emailing, so I can send my own invoice email?
@late sail
late sail
Let me see
Before deciding to use your own Invoice page, may I ask how would you collect your customer payment detail? I just want to make sure you understand about PCI compiance
Our Invoice hosted page is PCI-compliance
also you can customize your Invoice hosted page : https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/hosted-invoice-page#customizing, so it does give some flexibility. Is that your concern about design? or domain?
mighty blaze
yeh my concern is redirecting to another site
i would prefer to redirect to my own site, not just for UI, but for overall experience
but is it possible to disable this automatic emailing? cuz else i dont know how I could create a invoice without sending email
late sail
Let me look around that part
