#stripe

I hear good things about poutine

oh beaver tails look good and I've never heard of them

I at one point had to explain to somebody that they weren't literally beaver tails

they were pretty horrified at first

poutine is awesome...

Hi can I get card type using stripe api?

swengin: the card type would be part of the card object which is included in the token as well as the charge, so yes

ok thank you

Hi guys

how do i get around this error

You cannot activate a test-only account. In order to activate, make sure your account is created under livemode

varun_: you created that account using your test api key, you have to create the account using a live api key

ah ok

and then i can go back to test api key for donig payments>

?

as in test payments

yes

markin: another question. Can i do test payments in live env?

no that would be bad, you use your live api key for live, and your test api key for test

ok thanks

so connected accounts must be created using live api keys?

bit of a gotcha but its ok :)

if you want to be able to process live payments with them yes

not a problem thanks

ideally you just use test for test mode and then you switch everything to live when you're ready for production

cheers

about the tax advise in the new package, how do I go about getting that part alone? I got a company and a bank account and stripe, can I hire your accountants for tax advise, or is it like I will have to take the entire package and form a new company etc?

tryrany: package? Stripe does not offer tax advise

Oh you mean Atlas?

so tax advice with Atlas is handled through PwC

"That said, we’re not providing tax and legal advice. Stripe Atlas users have access to a legal guide prepared by Orrick, a tax guide prepared by PwC, and a free consultation call with an expert from PwC. PwC and Orrick will not provide tailored tax advice unless you engage them to represent you directly as a client."

yep Atlas

got that, thanks markin

Anyone there?

hi bri

Hello, everybody!

I was wondering if I could have some help, or if someone could point me in the right direction. I've been asked by my boss to set up Checkout on our website because I'm the closest thing to an IT girl that they have, but I have no idea what I'm really doing?

Dimmerswitch: do you have any knowledge with PHP or some server side development?

Markin: I'm afraid not. The most I can do is dabble in HTML. I've been watching videos and tutorials and the like, and I understand them well enough, but I'm still confused.

Dimmerswitch: yeah, Checkout and Stripe in general will require some PHP code. There is https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/php which isn't the greatest tutorial

If you just want an html only thing, you'd need to use a third party integration like one listed at https://stripe.com/docs/integrations I built https://commencepayments.com for pretty much this exact use case

I doubt I'd be allowed to pay extra for that, I'm sorry! But it is useful to know that's possible.

I understand the PHP roughly enough - it's just actually implementing it that I can't quite get my head around.

Like, implementing the library and all? The only resources I can find on how to do that are for a much older version, so there's where I'm stumbling.

https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/php is for the recent version

if you're only make a charge, then its only 1 call to the Stripe library

So if I understand that right, that means all I really need to do is install Stripe via Composer, and then write the config and charge.php files?

yeah, though installing via composer can be difficult, so you could just do https://github.com/stripe/stripe-php#manual-ins...

basically just download the zip and use that

OH MY GOD

Thank you so much??

is there any way to batch close invoices from the dashboard?

Striper: nope you'd need to use the API for something like that (and that would still be closing 1 by 1)

is there a way to stop stripe from processing invoices altogether?

Striper: what are you trying to do?

we have a process that creates invoices and sends them to stripe...in the event of the process gone rogue or bad data, i'd like to know if there's some safety without manually closing bogus invoices

Striper: not really, you'd have to close the invoices individually

Striper: is there a reason you're using invoices though and not just creating a charge?

the asynchronous nature and auto retry of the invoice is nice to have, we assumed that charges were immediate

having the lag between invoice creation and attempted charge is nice too

as well as having multiple line items

charges are immediate

the lag is only 1 hour, and the multiple line items is debateable. Basically invoices are designed pretty closely for the stripe subscription model and not the average definition of an invoice

Sorry, hi! I know I'm asking a lot of questions, but I do want to make sure I do this right. If I install it manually, I have to include this line "require_once('/path/to/stripe-php/init.php');" -- where do I put it, sorry?

we find that invoices are better suited for our case of b2b, where customers expect to see a break down of fees

Striper: sure but you already have a notion of an invoice in your own database

Dimmerswitch: you would do that instead of require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

+markin But I'm not sure where to actually, like, put it? Sorry, I'm a lot less experienced with this than most people in here!

so if you're following https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/php it goes in config.php

Oh, right! Okay, thank you!