Prefill customer email via Stripe Payment Link URL

Question

I'm testing out Stripe's new Payment Links in a project, and I'm trying to prefill a user's email address in the email field of the checkout form. I tried appending the payment link URL with the "email" data attribute, which doesn't work, the data isn't passed on:

https://buy.stripe.com/[email protected]

I know Stripe's client-side checkout solution does allow for this, but I'm trying to just use the Payment Link, since it's so much simpler. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

Update: it looks like this is now possible using URL parameters including ?prefilled_email. See documentation

?prefilled_email Seems to be working as expected

✅ stripe.com/docs/payment-links/customer-info

Answer 2

Stripe Payment Links do not support pre-filling the customer's email.

However, if you're comfortable writing some code, you can use the Stripe API to create a Checkout Session with a pre-filled email. Once you create the session you can send your customer to the url provided in the Checkout Session object.