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You can make invoices by using their webhooks (https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks). Just email your customers when a billing even

You can make invoices by using their webhooks (https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks). Just email your customers when a billing event occurs

liamk 14y ago
Indeed, and that is what we're doing right now. However, it would be nice if they dealt with creating nicely formatted invoices and emailed them so we don't have to.
- jonknee 14y ago
  Where does that end? They're taking your payments, making your invoices, why not be an OAuth provider for your users? Host your app? Store and ship your physical products? I love Stripe. They do one thing well, better than anyone else I have used. It's not perfect for everyone, but anytime someone tries to be perfect for everyone they stop being perfect for anyone.
  - pbreit 14y ago
    I don't think it's that crazy to wish for emailed invoices from a payment processor. Unlike the examples you provide, it's a pretty natural and easy add-on to such a service which many providers (eg, PayPal, Square) do.
    - jonknee 14y ago
      PayPal and Square are user facing companies. Stripe is currently strictly a developer facing company (I mean look at their home page, they have code samples!). Stripe provides hooks that allow you to easily send your own invoices--that's a developer friendly feature that maintains flexibility (everyone will want invoices to work differently).
  - frankdenbow 14y ago
    Agreed! Would make sense to have a Stripe marketplace similar to what Shopify has to extend this functionality to those that want it.
  - gwright 14y ago
    That ends with something like Amazon.
- nateabele 14y ago
  ...? Stripe is a payment processor. If you want invoicing, use (FreshBooks|Xero|Blinksale|etc). "It would be nice if" is often the death of good product design.
sudonim 14y ago
Agreed. We dogfood our own product (we do the send an email part) to do this and it is ridiculously easy: Consume a stripe webhook / send an email: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2454/Slingshot/Pictures/Customer.io-2.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2454/Slingshot/Pictures/Customer.io-... Nicely formatted: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2454/Slingshot/Pictures/Customer.io-10.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2454/Slingshot/Pictures/Customer.io-...

You can make invoices by using their webhooks (https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks). Just email your customers when a billing event occurs

liamk 14y ago

Indeed, and that is what we're doing right now. However, it would be nice if they dealt with creating nicely formatted invoices and emailed them so we don't have to.

jonknee 14y ago
Where does that end? They're taking your payments, making your invoices, why not be an OAuth provider for your users? Host your app? Store and ship your physical products? I love Stripe. They do one thing well, better than anyone else I have used. It's not perfect for everyone, but anytime someone tries to be perfect for everyone they stop being perfect for anyone.
- pbreit 14y ago
  I don't think it's that crazy to wish for emailed invoices from a payment processor. Unlike the examples you provide, it's a pretty natural and easy add-on to such a service which many providers (eg, PayPal, Square) do.
  - jonknee 14y ago
    PayPal and Square are user facing companies. Stripe is currently strictly a developer facing company (I mean look at their home page, they have code samples!). Stripe provides hooks that allow you to easily send your own invoices--that's a developer friendly feature that maintains flexibility (everyone will want invoices to work differently).
- frankdenbow 14y ago
  Agreed! Would make sense to have a Stripe marketplace similar to what Shopify has to extend this functionality to those that want it.
- gwright 14y ago
  That ends with something like Amazon.
nateabele 14y ago
...? Stripe is a payment processor. If you want invoicing, use (FreshBooks|Xero|Blinksale|etc). "It would be nice if" is often the death of good product design.

sudonim 14y ago

Agreed. We dogfood our own product (we do the send an email part) to do this and it is ridiculously easy: Consume a stripe webhook / send an email: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2454/Slingshot/Pictures/Customer.io-2.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2454/Slingshot/Pictures/Customer.io-... Nicely formatted: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2454/Slingshot/Pictures/Customer.io-10.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2454/Slingshot/Pictures/Customer.io-...