Let customers decide what to pay

Learn how to accept tips and donations, or sell pay-what-you want products or services.

You can use this feature to collect a tip for a service provided, accept donations for a cause, or give your customers the option to pay what they want for your product or service.

Learn more about Stripe’s requirements for accepting tips or donations.

Pay-what-you-want payments have the following limitations:

You can’t use promotion codes or discounts with them.
They don’t support recurring payments.

Setup your product catalog

Checkout uses Products and Prices to structure “pay-what-you-want” payments.

Togethere is selling tickets to a fundraising dinner and wants to allow their customers to enter the price they want to pay for their tickets.

To create a pay-what-you-want model on Stripe through the Dashboard follow the steps below.

First create the Fundraising dinner product.

Go to the Products tab.
Click +Add product.
Enter the Name of the product: Fundraising dinner, in this case.
Add a Description. The customer sees the description at checkout (optional).

Next, create the price for the Fundraising dinner product:

Select Customer chooses price for the Pricing model.
Add a suggested price (optional).
Specify limits that the customer can input (optional).
Click Save product.

Create a Checkout session

Specify the price created in the previous step when creating a Checkout Session to enable customers to change the amount on the payment page. When using Customer chooses price you can’t add any other line items and the quantity can only be 1.

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/checkout/sessions \
  -u sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc: \
  -d cancel_url="https://example.com" \
  -d "line_items[0][price]"="{{PRICE_ID}}" \
  -d "line_items[0][quantity]"=1 \
  -d mode=payment \
  -d success_url="https://example.com"

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