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rapid plaza Dec 20, 2021, 5:14 PM

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would the receipt email not work? you only want an Invoice?

eager timber Dec 20, 2021, 5:17 PM

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That is what my customers are asking for--does the receipt only get sent once they make a payment? They are asking because they need to request funds from their universities

rapid plaza Dec 20, 2021, 5:19 PM

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only get sent once they make a payment?
yes

eager timber Dec 20, 2021, 5:23 PM

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so this would be different than a receipt--it would be an invoice that can be created similar to a payment being created. That invoice could be emailed to the customer and tracked in Stripe

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@rapid plaza any ideas?

rapid plaza Dec 20, 2021, 5:29 PM

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got it so yeah this is currently something Checkout does not support i.e. the ability to associate an Invoice with Checkout

You might have to just create an Invoice up front and use its "hosted payment page" as the payment page instead of Checkout

eager timber Dec 20, 2021, 5:37 PM

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Ok so just a generic invoice?

rapid plaza Dec 20, 2021, 5:43 PM

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no what I meant was

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you create an Invoice via the API, you don't pay it automatically but "finalize" it so it is ready to pay

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then instead of showing your customer the Stripe Checkout page, show them the https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-hosted_invoice_url page

customers pay that Invoice via that webpage and you can then send them the Invoice too

Stripe API reference – The Invoice object

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

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so basically, my suggestion is, don't use Checkout, only use Invoices and modify your integration a bit

eager timber Dec 20, 2021, 6:19 PM

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Oh. Nice, yeah that would probably work. The problem is I need to offer both options--like two buttons, one for paying directly and the other for requesting an Invoice. but that shouldn't be a problem, right?

rapid plaza Dec 20, 2021, 6:20 PM

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that works just fine!

eager timber Dec 20, 2021, 6:20 PM

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ok cool, thanks so much for your help, I'll try that

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Could I also just have a generic invoice for each product and a link to it from each payment page? So like in the product description on the payment page, it says "Need an invoice? Click here!"

rapid plaza Dec 20, 2021, 6:25 PM

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stepping away but a colleague is catching up to answer your questions

fast turtle Dec 20, 2021, 6:28 PM

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Hello! You could build something like that, but it wouldn't be a generic Invoice; you would need to create a new Invoice for each Customer each time.

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Are these actual Invoices that you want to create and get paid with, or are you looking for something more like a quote? https://stripe.com/docs/quotes

eager timber Dec 20, 2021, 6:34 PM

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Our customers need to have payments approved by their universities, and most of them have old-fashioned payment systems that require an invoice on file to approve the payment.

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So yeah, it would be better if they could actually pay using the invoice but we could potentially just create an invoice pdf and have a download link on every product page. Not ideal tho

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