# What plan do I need to automate payments? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [February 13, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-plan-do-i-need-to-automate-payments/80043 "2025-02-13T21:46:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Simon\_Hill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/simon_hill/32/94730_2.png) [@Simon\_Hill](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Simon_Hill)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 5:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-plan-do-i-need-to-automate-payments/80043/3 "2025-02-15T05:31:11Z")
I think Bob’s videos are amazing. That said, an alternative approach for handling payments and subscriptions is indeed to use Stripe but to leverage invoices instead. I prefer this approach to juggling the direct payment methods. You can have Stripe receive an instruction to send an invoice to your user’s email. At the same time you add a row to a tracker table that monitors payment status. On payment, Stripe can send a trigger that allows you to update your tracker table. The only downside is the customer experience… they have to check their email. But otherwise I like it. > [@Love a tutorial on tracking status of Stripe invoices!](https://community.glideapps.com/t/love-a-tutorial-on-tracking-status-of-stripe-invoices/79310): > > Anyone willing to provide a tutorial video on how to track the status of Stripe invoices? The use case is pretty general: I am interested to use Glide’s Stripe integration to send invoices to users. That looks to be relatively straightforward. However, it looks to be a step up in complexity to track the status, e.g. pending, paid, overdue, etc… I understand Stripe offers a Webhook that can be triggered by events related to the invoice and this can be configured to send that update to Glide. I… > [@Help with Querying JSON in Stripe Webhook for Invoice Field](https://community.glideapps.com/t/help-with-querying-json-in-stripe-webhook-for-invoice-field/79383): > > Hi everyone, I’ve set up a Stripe webhook that successfully triggers when an invoice is paid. The webhook sends the JSON payload shown in the attached screenshot, and I need to extract the field named invoice (highlighted in yellow in the image). This invoice field is crucial as it represents a userID column in my Glide app, used to identify and track the invoice. The issue: When I query the JSON body using the Glide Query JSON step, I can retrieve the very first id field, but I can’t figure… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-plan-do-i-need-to-automate-payments/80043)._