#TonyS-invoice
thorny kraken
hi! https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/customize are the docs for adding custom information to invoices. Should be possible to add the information you mention.
knotty python
Hi Karl, thank you very much. I indeed read that article and tried to use the tool, is this the only possibility to edit the invoice layout ?
thorny kraken
yep!
you definitely can add the information you mention though, what was the specific issue that was blocking?
for example custom fields on the invoice would work here (https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/customize#custom-fields)
knotty python
Ok basically I can use the tool to add our compant adress and VAT number on the invoice
But for the client VAT number, which is a dynamic information, can I pass it through a specific field with the API ?
thorny kraken
https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/customer/tax-ids?dashboard-or-api=api for example is how you set it, it will appear on Invoices issued for that customer
knotty python
Ok thank you very much karl you are super effective I'll try it out and come back to you !
knotty python
Thank you Karl it's working great, I have another question if you could help us that would be amazing.
Basically, our company is located in Europe and we need to apply a VAT tax rate of 20% of our subscription paiements for anybody that is not a company located in a country outside Europe
I don't know how we can have this logic working in stripe, meaning it's not depending on the country where the person is located but also based on the status of the client : Company or Personnal Use
Do you have any idea how we could achieve this? Right now we do it by hand by adding a tax_rate in the checkout creation, but we need to check where the person is located and if we have a company number provided or not
thorny kraken
hmm, that's hard to do if using Checkout and your own manual tax rates
Checkout in general can collect if the customer is registered as a business and their VAT ID, and that information is used in the tax calculation if you're using our automatic solution https://stripe.com/docs/tax/checkout/tax-ids#create-session
knotty python
Ok I understand so it's possible to ask stripe to collect the VAT id for a customer during the checkout
However, is this possible based on this info, to decide the Tax rate that will be applied?
Personnal use (meaning no VAT number) = 20% tax
Company use inside europe = 20% tax
Company use outside europe = 0% tax
Sorry if it's a complicated use case
thorny kraken
I don't think that's directly possible no, we do our own (compliant) logic for what tax needs to be collected
if you have a custom/specific requirement like that you probably want to ask for the customer's details outside of the Stripe hosted page entirely and then pass a direct TaxRate object into the CheckoutSession for what you need
knotty python
Yes this is what we do, thank you very much karl you were super helpful
knotty python
Hello again Karl, I have an additional question regarding collecting VAT id during checkout. It doest work, however do you know if it's possibile to make the field mandatory? Right now they have to click on check box and entering the info which is not mandatory
granite heart
Hello 👋 Karl had to step away but I can help
I'm not sure if you can make it a required field
Let me take a look
knotty python
Hello Hanzo! Thanks!
granite heart
yeah not seeing a way to make it mandatory on the checkout form itself 😦
knotty python
Ok do you know why the field is disappearing when the country change? I will show you
the last checkbox is "Buying as company" where you can enter vat info
but if i'm a US customer
the field doesn't exist
granite heart
Checkout only supports collecting Tax IDs in given regions
https://stripe.com/docs/tax/checkout/tax-ids#supported-types
US isn't in the list
knotty python
Why?
granite heart
That, I unfortunately don't know
I think the support team would have more context on this