selby14 - dynamic price + tax | Stripe Developers | Page 1

merry pond May 10, 2022, 3:39 PM

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Good question, checking in to how you may be able to do this

lament halo May 10, 2022, 3:44 PM

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Hi 👋 I"m stepping in for @merry pond

onyx oxide May 10, 2022, 3:45 PM

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hello

lament halo May 10, 2022, 3:46 PM

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I think your best bet may be to look into using Tax Rates. https://stripe.com/docs/billing/taxes/tax-rates

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This would require you to manage the creation of specific rates but would allow you to set them yourself on Checkout Session line items

onyx oxide May 10, 2022, 3:50 PM

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isn't that for a flat tax rate on every order? I would need it to only apply to orders being shipped to Florida

lament halo May 10, 2022, 3:54 PM

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-line_items-dynamic_tax_rates

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You can specify a dynamic tax rate and set the state parameter when creating your tax rate object:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/tax_rates/object#tax_rate_object-state

onyx oxide May 10, 2022, 3:56 PM

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I tried that and get the following error when trying to create the session: You can not pass line_items[0][dynamic_tax_rates] when not using prices.

lament halo May 10, 2022, 3:57 PM

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Are you using line_items.price_data to fill out the dynamic pricing in your requests?

onyx oxide May 10, 2022, 3:58 PM

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I am not.

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I wasn't getting that data to populate in my backend api request, but I think I figured out why, so I can go back and give that a try.

lament halo May 10, 2022, 4:01 PM

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Then how are you generating the checkout sessions? Since our docs say the following:

price_data: Data used to generate a new Price object inline. One of price or price_data is required.

onyx oxide May 10, 2022, 4:07 PM

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if I sent the name, quantity and amount in the line_item, the session was being created. Not sure why or how, but it was, so I was going with it. Testing using price_data now.

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That was the ticket! Thank you!

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