keymodded-payment-link | Stripe Developers | Page 1

lofty basin Jun 15, 2022, 5:33 PM

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@keen venture a PaymentLink doesn't get "confirmed" so you are likely misunderstanding the overall feature

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 5:34 PM

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um

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so i check for checkout session to see if it confirmed ?

lofty basin Jun 15, 2022, 5:37 PM

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Yes, and there can be multiple Checkout Session if multiple people follow the link

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 5:39 PM

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how do i use the session object

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oh nevermind

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 6:18 PM

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lofty basin <@430474695825948705> a PaymentLink doesn't get "confirmed" so you are likely mi...

well, how do i check if a client paid via payment link ?

lofty basin Jun 15, 2022, 6:19 PM

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A PaymentLink creates a Checkout Session, so you listen to Checkout Session events to do the fulfillment

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 6:21 PM

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how do i get the checkout session id from the payment link ?

lofty basin Jun 15, 2022, 6:23 PM

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you don't, that's what I am trying to explain that you are misunderstanding

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A PaymentLink allows you to configure a simple URL you give to many people to pay for the same thing. Say $10 for a coffee.

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Once you have that URL, maybe no one will ever click it or pay, maybe one person will, maybe 2 or 2 millions

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 6:24 PM

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i'm not using the stripe API with a website, i'm doing in pure python so it's a little hard to do it w/o a site

lofty basin Jun 15, 2022, 6:24 PM

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Payment Link -> url -> Checkout Session for each individual customers

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What you can do is configure the PaymentLink to send the customer back to your own website after each successful payment. This is covered in our docs here: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-links#post-purchase

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 6:30 PM

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wait so what is the difference between session and payment link

lofty basin Jun 15, 2022, 6:37 PM

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A Session is ephemeral and represents one payment attempt for a given Customer. A PaymentLink is durable, you create one, get a URL and you can give that URL to anyone, today, tomorrow, next year, and it'll keep working

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 6:37 PM

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oh

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i guess a session is more suitable for me

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thanks for the help

lofty basin Jun 15, 2022, 6:38 PM

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okay so yes if you just sell one thing to one person and want to create it on demand then a Session is better

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you likely want to switch to https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/quickstart which shows how to do all of this

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payment links are more to say put a link to a $15 ebook on your website and anyone can click and pay

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 6:38 PM

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well i want to sell different things to different peoples

lofty basin Jun 15, 2022, 6:38 PM

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or tweeting a link to your followers and such

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 6:39 PM

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i've got a unique product when a client wants to buy

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something like that

lofty basin Jun 15, 2022, 6:48 PM

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Checkout seems to be what you need/want

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 6:53 PM

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well checkout is a session, i'm right ?

lofty basin Jun 15, 2022, 6:55 PM

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yes and no

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Checkout is our product.
A Session is just the API resource you create to link to Checkout

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 6:57 PM

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oh

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can you give me the docs link for the checkout ?

lofty basin Jun 15, 2022, 7:00 PM

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that's the one I get above: https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/quickstart

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 7:01 PM

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oh i got it

lofty basin Jun 15, 2022, 7:01 PM

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sure!

keen venture Jun 15, 2022, 7:06 PM

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i can set the checkout to expire for a defined time ?

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