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Collect and process payment through SMS

  • November 11, 2019
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Nate
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  • Zapier Solution Partner

Hi!

I'm setting up an SMS conversation with Twilio Studio that collects payment information. I was hoping I can then add a Zap to process the payment with Stripe, but I noticed now that there is no such action. Any workarounds? 


Best answer by AndrewJDavison

Hi @Nate - it looks like you can do that directly in Twilio Studio - https://www.twilio.com/docs/studio/widget-library/capture-payments

The reason there is no “Create Charge” action step is mostly likely because between Twilio and Stripe the customer's raw payment data would be temporarily stored in Zapier’s server which is a big security no no.


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ikbelkirasan
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  • Zapier Solution Partner
  • November 11, 2019

Hi @Nate, I think you need a custom Zapier app to charge credit cards with Stripe. Or maybe you can achieve that using a code step (or webhooks) to request a stripe token for the credit card information the zap received, and then use the token to charge the credit card. Here's the API documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/api

Cheers!

Ikbel



Nate
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  • November 11, 2019

Thanks @ikbelkirasan! Yeah, that what I thought so too. But I was hoping I can find a no-code solution 🙂



AndrewJDavison
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  • November 11, 2019

Hi @Nate - it looks like you can do that directly in Twilio Studio - https://www.twilio.com/docs/studio/widget-library/capture-payments

The reason there is no “Create Charge” action step is mostly likely because between Twilio and Stripe the customer's raw payment data would be temporarily stored in Zapier’s server which is a big security no no.



Nate
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  • November 11, 2019

Thank you @AndrewJDavison_Luhhu. I’ll look into it.