Stripe
Stripe is a payments infrastructure service for the internet. It provides an easy and flexible way to let customers accept payments within your platform. You can use Stripe to accept payments, send payouts, and manage your business online through a full-featured dashboard.
For more information on Stripe, see the company website.
In the context of Nintex Automation Cloud, Stripe is a connector A software component that allows seamless integration with third-party services, business applications, and content stores. Examples include Salesforce, Box, and Microsoft SharePoint. Connectors are used to create connections required for workflow actions and start events..
The Stripe connector A software component that allows seamless integration with third-party services, business applications, and content stores. Examples include Salesforce, Box, and Microsoft SharePoint. Connectors are used to create connections required for workflow actions and start events. is used to create connections for Stripe actions. Use Stripe actions A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. Actions are the steps the workflow performs to complete a process. to create a customer or product, update a customer or product, and retrieve the details of a customer.
Create a Stripe connection
Create a connection from the connections page or from the action configuration panel when configuring the action. For information about creating connections and assigning permissions, see Manage connections.
In the Connection window, complete the fields as follows:
In this field |
Select or enter the following |
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Connection name | A name for your new connection. |
API Key | An auto-generated key for a Stripe user. For information about API keys, see Authentication and API keys. |
Create a Stripe data lookup
Use the Stripe data lookup to create a drop-down list of Stripe customers or products within a form. Each data lookup is configured for a specific API key. You can create as many data lookups as you need. For more information on creating a data lookup and assigning permissions to it, see Data lookups. After you create a Stripe data lookup, you can add a data lookup form control to your form and configure it to use your new data lookup.
For example, to allow users to select a specific customer in a form, add a drop-down list of customers to the form using a Data lookup control A form control that allow users to select from a drop-down list that has values sourced from a third-party service.. The Data lookup form control uses a Get customers data lookup to list the customers associated with the API key in the Stripe connection.
You can create a data lookup to:
- Get customers: List all the customers associated with the API key in the Stripe connection.
- Get products: List all the products associated with the API key in the Stripe connection.
Stripe data lookup fields
When you create a Stripe data lookup, you can configure additional fields to specify which page of results the data lookup should retrieve.
To access the data lookup fields, in the Add data lookup section, select the Connector and the Operation.
Operation |
Field or selection |
Description |
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Get customers | Item limit |
The number of customers you want to retrieve. You can specify a maximum of 100 customers. |