rilsen-customerid | Stripe Developers | Page 1

humble dawn Feb 25, 2022, 4:34 AM

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Hi there, the customer id is a unique identifier generated by our internal system.

trim delta Feb 25, 2022, 4:40 AM

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yes but how does stripe know a customer coming back to the checkout page is the same customer?

humble dawn Feb 25, 2022, 4:41 AM

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tripe generates a customer_id for me automatically but does that mean a user could have multiple stripe customer id's?
This is correct, if you do not specify the Customer id for Checkout, usually a new Customer id is generated https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-customer

trim delta Feb 25, 2022, 4:42 AM

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i see, so I should pass the customerId to the checkout session to make sure stripe knows its the same customer

humble dawn Feb 25, 2022, 4:43 AM

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There is a new field that had been introduced recently to allow guest customers without creating new Customer objects (except for subscriptions) https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-customer_creation

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i see, so I should pass the customerId to the checkout session to make sure stripe knows its the same customer
Correct! 🙂

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