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Draft a Stripe invoice from an Airtable billing view
Move a row into your ready to bill view and Stripe gets a draft for that amount, matched to the customer by email, before anyone opens a spreadsheet.
Trigger: Record enters a view
Action: Create an invoice
About 13 minutes to set up
How this flow works
Syncline watches Airtable for Record enters a view. When that happens it runs Create an invoice in Stripe with the fields you mapped.
- Build the ready to bill view and connect the base.
- Connect Stripe in test mode with the restricted key from Stripe Connect.
- Map the customer email, the amount and the currency, and check the minor units conversion.
- Run three rows through the test account, compare the drafts, then connect live.
Field mapping
| From Airtable | To Stripe | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Customer email | This base keeps the billing address in the primary field, so it is the value Stripe matches the customer on. |
| Amount | Amount | Airtable holds a decimal and Stripe needs minor units, so 49.00 is sent as 4900 and both numbers appear in the history. |
| Status | Status | Only rows reading Ready to bill draw a draft, and every skipped row is logged with the reason. |
| Record ID | Invoice ID | The record ID is written into Stripe metadata beside the invoice, which turns month end reconciliation into a lookup. |
Why teams run it
- Billing runs from the tracker the team already updates
- Amounts are converted once, in code, not in someone's head
- The draft waits for a human before any money is asked for
Who uses it
A studio owner who tracks billable work in a base and invoices at the end of every month.
About the two apps
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Airtable
Airtable is where teams build the tracker no off-the-shelf tool provides. Syncline keeps that base fed from your other apps and sends its rows onward when something changes.
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Stripe
Stripe knows the moment money arrives, fails or goes back out. Syncline turns each of those events into something your team can see and act on within a couple of minutes.
Questions
Can it finalise and send the invoice too?
It can, but that option is off unless you add it. Most teams keep drafts so a person checks the line items before a customer sees them.
What about currencies without decimals?
Yen and similar are handled without a false division, and the run history names the currency rule that was applied to that row.
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