thefyrewire-invoices | Stripe Developers | Page 1

silver vortex Jun 9, 2022, 4:50 PM

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Hi there! Orders are not currently compatible with Invoices (we mention this here: https://stripe.com/docs/orders#compatibility).

Orders overview

Build custom checkout flows and calculate tax automatically

strange jay Jun 9, 2022, 4:55 PM

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Ah yes, thanks, I do remember seeing that actually lol. So what would I need if I can't use Orders? Would it be PaymentIntents?

silver vortex Jun 9, 2022, 4:56 PM

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Yes you would need to create Invoices (which creates a PaymentIntent automatically associated with the Invoice)

strange jay Jun 9, 2022, 4:58 PM

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Oh interesting, so I could then retrieve the PaymentIntent and use its client secret to allow the customer to pay immediately with Payment Elements?

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And if I already have their payment method stored, I could pay the invoice on the server?

silver vortex Jun 9, 2022, 5:02 PM

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Yep

strange jay Jun 9, 2022, 5:10 PM

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I can see that I can create inline price_data for the invoiceItems which is great, and I can still apply discounts and use Stripe Tax, so that's also good..

But I don't want to email the customer with the invoice, because I'd want to mirror the Orders/PaymentIntents flow and have them pay immediately with Payment Elements. Setting the collection method to charge_automatically looks like it only applies if the customer already has a saved payment method, but what would happen if they don't?

silver vortex Jun 9, 2022, 5:12 PM

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Yeah you want charge_automatically. When you finalize the invoice you can set auto_advance: false: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/finalize#finalize_invoice-auto_advance. Then you can send the PI client secret to the client and confirm using Payment Element

strange jay Jun 9, 2022, 5:16 PM

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Oh cool! So I can finalise with that set to false, then do that PI retrieval and proceed with Payment Elements or auto-charging the payment method depending on what the user wants to pick

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I feel like I'm missing something, it feels like the Invoicing API is very similar to the Orders API 🤔 are there any major features I'd be missing by choosing Invoicing over Orders?

silver vortex Jun 9, 2022, 5:20 PM

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They are definitely similar! Orders is mostly for folks who want Stripe Tax but without Invoices

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And it also has some other features currently, like shipping calculation.

strange jay Jun 9, 2022, 5:20 PM

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OK awesome! Thanks for your help as usual 😄

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