How to make stripe invoices downloadable for my users?

@smoketm I'll say why don't give the option to download from the stripe customer dashboard portal. FYI https://stripe.com/docs/api/customer_portal if you do that you don't need to do any customization. It's a cool feature rolled by Stripe. Hope it'll help you! Cheers!

Thanks for your answer! Looks like this is something to look into for the next project but I implemented the whole process already like creating, updating and deleting subscriptions. Do you know if this is the way laracasts generates the invoices? There should be a easy way to get the invoices like it is for the receipts? I dont know maybe there is something in cashier but cant find something in the docs.

Personally is use: https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf

You can return data to a view that gets downloaded as a pdf

@lenardo this does not really help there should be a link for the users to get their invoices like it is for the receipts. Cant figure out how laracasts is doing it.

@smoketm laracasts is built on the laravel spark package. You’ll find some documentation on laravel main site for that

@smoketm take a look here : https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices

@automica did not know that thank you

Thanks @timtom this looks promising, but what makes me wonder is why there is nothing from cashier provided. Something like for the receipts. Maybe I should stick with the receipts and edit the receipt.blade.php?

It's just that no one has developed this feature in the cashier :)

If you want to have custom receipts, I advise you to generate them yourself by a receipt view.

If you want to have custom receipts, I advise you to generate them yourself by a receipt view.

@timtom what is that and how does that work?

The URL for the hosted invoice page, which allows customers to view and pay an invoice https://www.logiguard.com/dqfansurvey/

I will not show you the code but you have all your payments in your database, so you can juste create a route who display view with data of payment. (Like a receipt)

THanks @timtom! What I did now is to work with the invoice object because it provides the pdf url.

It looks like this

  public function download(Request $request, $invoiceId) {

      $stripe = new \Stripe\StripeClient(env('STRIPE_SECRET', null));
      $stripe = $stripe->invoices->retrieve(
        $invoiceId,
        []
      );
      return redirect()->to($stripe->invoice_pdf);
}

What makes me a little bit concerned I cant ensure the invoice is related to the user

How do you retrieve the invoiceId ?

Via link like so

<table>
    @foreach ($invoices as $invoice)
        <tr>
            <td>{{ $invoice->date()->toFormattedDateString() }}</td>
            <td>{{ $invoice->total() }}</td>
            <td><a href="/user/invoice/{{ $invoice->id }}">Download</a></td>
        </tr>
    @endforeach
</table>

What I could do is to check on every invoiceId if it belongs to the user

$invoice = $user->findInvoice($invoiceId) ?? null;

if($invoice == null)
	abort(404);

Create a Form Request (https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/validation#creating-form-requests) to check the invoiceId with the current logged user.

Did it like so now and it works. Do you see any problems with this approach?

$invoice = null;
      try {
        $invoice = request()->user()->findInvoice($invoiceId);
      } finally {

        if($invoice == null) {
          abort(404);
        }

        return redirect()->to($invoice->invoice_pdf);
      }