{
  "slug": "stripe-payment-links-api-enables-managed-payments-for-digital-products-6b14bd5af5d2",
  "title": "Stripe Payment Links API enables Managed Payments for digital products",
  "tools": [
    "stripe"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "agent"
  ],
  "introduced_at": "2026-03-25T00:00:00.000Z",
  "announced_at": "2026-03-25T00:00:00.000Z",
  "effective_at": null,
  "date_basis": "source-publication",
  "status": "unknown",
  "how": {
    "incantation": "For a digital product, create a Payment Link with `managed_payments.enabled` set to `true`. The release note supports doing this through the Payment Links API or Dashboard.",
    "examples": [
      "curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/payment_links \\\n  -u \"$STRIPE_SECRET_KEY:\" \\\n  -H \"Stripe-Version: 2026-03-25.preview\" \\\n  -d \"line_items[0][price]\"=\"<price_id>\" \\\n  -d \"line_items[0][quantity]\"=1 \\\n  -d \"managed_payments[enabled]\"=true",
      "Dashboard: https://dashboard.stripe.com/payment-links/create"
    ],
    "gotchas": [
      "line_items (required): Items being sold; each item has a Price and quantity. Up to 20 line items.",
      "managed_payments.enabled: Set to `true` to enable Managed Payments for the Payment Link.",
      "Stripe-Version (required): Set to `2026-03-25.preview` to use the API version adding this parameter.",
      "STRIPE_SECRET_KEY (required): Secret API key used for authentication; represented by the create endpoint's documented `-u` authentication pattern.",
      "Prerequisite: A Stripe account and a Price for the product to use as a Payment Link line item.",
      "Prerequisite: Managed Payments is for digital products; Stripe's guide lists SaaS, software, and digital content or downloads as examples.",
      "Prerequisite: Managed Payments does not support Connect/platform or marketplace integrations.",
      "Managed Payments is for digital products."
    ]
  },
  "why_it_matters": "Create a payment link to sell a digital product using Managed Payments.",
  "sources": [
    "https://docs.stripe.com/changelog/dahlia/2026-03-25/adds-support-for-managed-payments-on-payment-links",
    "https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_links/create",
    "https://docs.stripe.com/payments/managed-payments"
  ],
  "rank": 0.98029,
  "judge": {
    "publish": true,
    "judge_model": "codex-cli/gpt-6-luna+typesafe/jev-1.13.0",
    "prompt_version": "extract-v7+enrich-v2+judge-v2x3+jev-publish-v1"
  },
  "review_state": "approved",
  "provenance": {
    "run_id": "wave1b-tools-20261017",
    "verdict_id": "wave1b-tools-20261017:wave1b-tools-20261017-3e2c5ef8827effa0-0:gate",
    "evidence_hash": "4730ab119c25772e02caf1777b1ce7541629bda30e531c4e5ee75144450ed97c"
  },
  "review": {
    "draft_hash": "051781bfde506708e3b38437af602cfbbdfb43949bd2bc1302a60cedaede227a",
    "reviewer": "publication-gate",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z",
    "decision": "wave1b-tools-20261017:gate",
    "reason": "3 of 3 judge runs approved with p_yes >= 0.9 (mean 0.98 >= 0.9; 2 needed) and Jev gave 0.70 (>= 0.6 needed)."
  }
}