--- title: How to add Link for faster checkout with Stripe slug: how-to-add-link-for-faster-checkout-with-stripe published_at: 2022-05-10 20:59:15 +0000 updated_at: 2023-01-30 22:52:30 +0000 summary: description: In this episode, you'll learn how to accept payments with the Link payment method in the US. Link is a reusable payment method with immediate notification. Using Link, you can offer a frictionless checkout experience to every new customer. Customers have Link accounts where they store their billing information (email, addresses, and so on) and payment details (cards, bank accounts, and so on). When a customer visits a new business that accepts Link, they only need to authenticate using an SMS code. Link with Stripe is the new solution that we recommend instead of the legacy \"remember me\" feature. Link is now out of beta and available publicly in some regions. ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev ### Resources Documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-methods/link/accept-a-payment ### Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat ### Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest ### Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88 #Stripe #Payments tags: [stripe, payments, link, Link with Stripe, Faster checkout with Link, remember me, Save customer payment method, list customer payment methods, payment methods, payment method types, link with stripe on custom payment elements, @cjav_dev] views: 1562 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/how-to-add-link-for-faster-checkout-with-stripe youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYRJzu5t3CA youtube_id: LYRJzu5t3CA embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/LYRJzu5t3CA thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LYRJzu5t3CA/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # How to add Link for faster checkout with Stripe *Published: May 10, 2022* *Views: 1562* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYRJzu5t3CA) [![How to add Link for faster checkout with Stripe](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LYRJzu5t3CA/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYRJzu5t3CA) ## Description In this episode, you'll learn how to accept payments with the Link payment method in the US. Link is a reusable payment method with immediate notification. Using Link, you can offer a frictionless checkout experience to every new customer. Customers have Link accounts where they store their billing information (email, addresses, and so on) and payment details (cards, bank accounts, and so on). When a customer visits a new business that accepts Link, they only need to authenticate using an SMS code. Link with Stripe is the new solution that we recommend instead of the legacy "remember me" feature. Link is now out of beta and available publicly in some regions. ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev ### Resources Documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-methods/link/accept-a-payment ### Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat ### Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest ### Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88 #Stripe #Payments ## Transcript in this episode you'll learn how to accept payments using link with stripe on your own custom stripe elements payment form link with stripe is a new option that allows your customers to remember their payment details for faster checkout next time customers have these link accounts where they store their billing information like their email address shipping addresses and even payment details like cards and bank accounts when a customer visits a new business that accepts link they only need to authenticate with their one-time password for frictionless checkout while link is already available in stripe checkout we're really excited to announce a beta where you can offer a link to your customers when they're going through payment pages on your own application [Music] all right let's see how we can integrate link so we're inside of vs code we're going to head over to the stripe for vs code extension scroll down to samples and say start with a stripe sample we'll use the accept a payment sample today we're going to use the payment element integration with html on the front end ruby on the back end and we'll give this a name accept payment with link we'll pick a repo that we want to clone that sample down into and accept that this is going to be downloaded we'll open that in the same window and get to work the very first thing we want to do is just start up our server and see what this sample gives us straight out of the box so i'll open up the terminal cd into the server directory and fire up the server with ruby server let's head over to the browser and take a look at localhost 4242 here you can see the payment element is being rendered we have several different payment method types that are available including bank contact eps and card by default this sample uses euros for the currency on the payment intent however link with stripe currently only supports usd so we're going to see a little bit of a different list of payment method types when we come back in a moment let's take a look at how this integration works on the server side we have a create payment intent endpoint where we make an api call to create a payment intent and then we pass its client secret back to the client on the front end we have a little bit of html this div with the id payment element is where we mount this payment element where we can accept payment details the way that that is mounted is using stripe.js so over in index.js you can see that we're initializing a brand new instance of stripe then we're making a fetch call or an ajax call to our create payment endpoint getting back at client secret next we use that client secret to initialize a set of stripe elements and we create a payment element component after the form is submitted we're going to call stripe.confirm payment and pass in that list of elements and some confirm params this is how the sample works if you're curious about how you set up and integrate the payment element head over to the channel we have tons of videos about how to set up and integrate the payment element but for today what i wanted to do was go through the process of adding link to an existing payment element integration if we were to walk through the process there's really no way to save our details yet so the first step is we need to go back to the server we're going to scroll all the way to the top and the very first thing we need to do is because this is a beta we're going to specify the beta by adding to our api version link underscore beta equals v1 then back inside of our create payment intent endpoint we need to first change the currency to usd because link really only supports usd now you'll notice that we have automatic payment methods enabled this is a best practice this means that your payment methods can be derived from your settings in the dashboard however if you are explicitly passing some list of payment method types then in order to use link will need to also pass link in addition to card or any other payment method types i'm going to use the automatic payment methods here because again that is best practice we'll head back over to the index and here we're going to add a container where we're going to mount what's called an authentication element the link authentication element we'll start by giving it an id of link authentication element and we're going to add a header for the contact and for the payment section just so we can separate out and we'll be able to identify those elements easier when we're looking at the form now in index.js on the client we also need to specify which betas we're using here again we're going to pass a list of string values including link beta 2 we also need to update the api version and pass in link beta is v1 all right so right before we create our payment element let's create a new element called a link authentication element this is a brand new type of stripe element and the key here is that we need to pass in link authentication with this camel cased string then we're going to call mount on that element passing in the id of the link authentication element div that we just created as the container for where this will exist the link authentication element will display an email input field by default and when a customer is returning to a business that accepts link they will see this email input now if we type into this email input an email address that has never been seen by any business that uses link then we'll notice that at the very bottom we see this new check box that allows customers to opt in it says check out faster using link with stripe we'll enter in some card details and in this case we will opt in to using link with stripe and you'll notice that we need to enter our phone number this phone number allows us to send an sms one time code to the customer so they can authenticate again later for faster checkout after we've submitted the payment you can see that payment succeeded we have the id of the payment intent we can head back over to the payment flow and again enter that same test email address for the new person at example.com and now we get a checkout faster with link with stripe and we can enter in any valid six digit code there's a handful that will show for testing later but this will allow us to really quickly check out with payment details that we've already used in the past so those are the basics for setting up link with stripe using the payment element integration now suppose you wanted access to the email address that was entered into that contact form we can add an onchange listener to the link authentication element that will say when we receive a change event we can access the email address that was typed into the authentication element going through event.value.email for now we'll just console log that value out we'll refresh the page open up the console and you can see now as i'm typing out the email address it is updating and logging out to the console so that event that change event is firing on the authentication element for every single keystroke this might be useful when you want to track the email address for a brand new customer now alternatively if you already know the customer's email address then we can initialize this link authentication element passing in some default values including the email address here we'll pass in my email address that way when the page is reloaded you can see the email address is already pre-populated and we've already sent the customer a one-time password that they can use to enter in and authenticate this future payment great now we can see a previous payment method that i've already used otherwise i could also create a brand new payment method if i wanted to there are also several test values that you can use when checking out to see what the customer will see for various error states so in this case they may have provided an incorrect one-time code or a code that has expired or finally a code that errors out because they have attempted to authenticate too many times in which case we need to enter a brand new payment method and then we're redirected so just as a quick recap first we went to the server we added that link beta header we changed the currency to usd if we weren't using automatic payment methods we would pass in link as a one of the payment method types next we went to the front end we added this container link authentication element this div that we can use to mount our authentication element then from index.js we added our list of betas including link beta2 we also updated the api version to include our beta then we created a link authentication element we showed how you can pass in default values or listen for the on change event to get access to that email address thanks so much for watching in the description of this video we have instructions for how to get involved and how you might participate in the beta if this is past the beta period and link is globally available you won't need to pass all those beta flags but the integration should be the same we really appreciate your time and attention and would love your feedback thanks so much for watching and we'll see in the next one --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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