Use the API to create and manage payment links
Create and manage payment links with the API.
You can use the Payment Links API to create a payment link that you can share with your customers. Stripe redirects customers who open this link to a Stripe-hosted payment page.
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Payment Links use Products and Prices to model what your business is selling. To get started with Payment Links, create a product, then use that product to create a price.
Payment Links only supports Standard pricing (charging the same price for each unit—either one time or recurring) and Customer chooses price (letting your customer specify the price). It doesn’t support advanced options like package pricing, graduated pricing, or volume pricing. Additionally, Customer choose prices currently doesn’t support recurring payments or donations.
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To create a payment link, pass in line_items. Each line item contains a price and quantity. Payment links can contain up to 20 line items when using Standard pricing and 1 line item when using Customer chooses price.
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Each payment link contains a url that you can share with your customers through email, on social media, with a website link, in an app, or through other channels.
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When customers use a payment link to complete a payment, Stripe sends a checkout.session.completed webhook that you can use for fulfillment and reconciliation.
Make sure to listen to additional webhooks in case you’ve enabled payment methods like bank debits or vouchers, which can take 2-14 days to confirm the payment. For more information, see our guide on fulfilling orders after a customer pays.
After a customer completes a purchase, you can redirect them to a URL or display a custom message by setting after_completion on the payment link.
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After you’ve created a payment link, you can’t delete it. What you can do is deactivate a payment link by setting the active attribute to false
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After you deactivate a link, customers can’t finalize purchases using the link anymore and are redirected to an expiration page. If you want to reuse a deactivated payment link, turn it back on by setting the active attribute to true
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By default, Stripe selects the relevant payment methods that you enabled in your Dashboard. To add supported payment methods, enable them in your Payment methods settings.