Create a Stripe customer from an order email

Orders that arrive as email stop waiting for somebody to open the dashboard: the customer exists in Stripe with your reference already in metadata.

Trigger: New email matching a search

Action: Create a customer

About 14 minutes to set up

Build this flow

See Gmail

How this flow works

Syncline watches Gmail for New email matching a search. When that happens it runs Create a customer in Stripe with the fields you mapped.

Connect the mailbox and write the search that matches your order confirmations.
Connect Stripe in test mode using the restricted key from Stripe Connect.
Map the sender address, the order value and the currency out of the message.
Send one real-looking order through, check the customer, then swap to the live account.

Field mapping

From Gmail	To Stripe	Note
From	Customer email	The sender address becomes the customer email, which is what every later flow matches on.
Subject	Amount	The order value in the subject is read as a decimal and converted to minor units before it is stored.
Body	Currency	The three letter code in the order body sets the currency, so nothing is assumed from the sender country.
Subject	Invoice ID	Your own order number is written into metadata beside the invoice reference, which makes reconciliation a lookup.

Why teams run it

Orders from a marketplace reach Stripe without a person
Your order number lives on the Stripe record forever
Test mode first means a bad parse costs nothing

Who uses it

An ecommerce owner whose marketplace sends order confirmations by mail and nothing else.

About the two apps

Gmail

Plenty of work still arrives as an email and stays there. Syncline turns matching messages into records in your other apps, and sends mail back out when something changes.

All Gmail flows

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.

All Stripe flows