timdab - custom checkout amount

[grim grail]

Hello, we have something like this on the roadmap but I don't think it is available yet. Let me see if I can find more details.

[warm lily]

Great - thanks

[grim grail]

Can you write in to our support team with your use case? They may be able to help you here https://support.stripe.com/?contact=true

[warm lily]

Thanks - assuming it is possible to create a product with the price I want before creating the checkout_session - assuming this would mean that there would be alot of products that I would need to create ?

[grim grail]

You can create one product and then create ad-hoc prices with your API call to create a Checkout Session https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-line_items-price_data-unit_amount

Technically you don't even need the one product as you can specify that info in the product_data field of your line items

[warm lily]

Thanks - I'll take a look at that

Just had one more question - is it possible to authorize a payment via a checkout session and via the API request that the payment is processed or cancelled at a later date

[grim grail]

For one-off payments, yes. You can pass in manual to the payment_intent_data.capture_method param https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-payment_intent_data-capture_method

And that will place a hold on those funds. You can then follow this guide to capture or cancel that hold at a later date https://stripe.com/docs/payments/capture-later#capture-funds

[warm lily]

Thanks - is this possible via the checkout session as well ?

[grim grail]

Yes, my first link/message there is for setting that parameter in Checkout

[warm lily]

Sorry - just saw this as well - thats helpful - thanks 🙂