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Improved email receipts

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23 pointstweakz7 comments

The new design looks good and the refund receipts are a very welcome change, as is the ability to resend them. Things that would be great to have:

* Receipts in the test environment, sent to a per-account "testing" email address

* The ability to set more customer information to be included on the receipt. For example, some customers want their address, phone number, VAT number, license ID, or cat's name on their invoice.

Hi! I work at Stripe.

You're indeed right about both of these use cases -- we've actually built the first one (but didn't post about it). On your settings page, you can go to Emails and you'll find a preview of the receipts. There you can click "Send test receipt" to any email address you'd like.

Your second point is also something we'd like to build, especially something like including metadata from a charge on the receipt.

We'll definitely keep your suggestions in mind!

Great! I'll check it out.

Some welcome additions, but this feature is still of limited use in most of the world without the ability to include the amount of sales tax (VAT).

Agreed. I do my own invoicing which breaks out sales tax but I use the checkout receipt which doesn't. It would be nice to be able to pull that information into the receipt.

This feature always seemed strange to me. Isn't this the kind of thing Stripe always encourages third party apps to build?

Hi! (I work at Stripe.)

While our webhooks are perfect for building things like receipts, we want to make the seller experience for the most common use case as nice as possible.

We do encourage folks to use our webhooks to build receipts for more complex use cases (e.g. if you want to include maps, images, or just in general need a more complex receipt structure for your particular business), but the simplest case is one we can and should provide well for :).

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