The thank-you page

The other pages cover what you do: catalog, charging, deliverable. This one covers what happens on the buyer’s side — and it is where integrations get stuck, because it is the part with in-between states. The whole thread is this, and it holds on both selling paths:

payment screen → they pay → you find out they paid → you deliver
                              ↑ polling            ↑ polling again

Those two polling steps are the part nobody guesses. One at a time.

Path A: you have the invoice (`checkout()`)

You have had invoiceId from the start, so this is the short path:

const { invoiceId } = await infi.checkout({
  slug, productId,
  customer: { externalId: "u_1", email, taxId },
  idempotencyKey: `sale:${orderId}`,
});
const pay = await infi.pay.charge({ slug, invoiceId, method: "pix" });
// pay.status comes back "pending"; the response carries what the buyer needs (e.g. the Pix QR)

Store the invoiceId → your user pair before showing the screen. It is how you will know whose purchase it was when the payment comes back.

Path B: you sent a payment link

The link is the recommendation for anyone who does not want to build a screen. If you want to control the experience and still use a link — or to test the flow over HTTP — it is three steps, and the invoice only exists at the third.

# 1. what to show on the screen (public, no auth)
curl "$API/pay/$SLUG/links/$TOKEN"
# -> { "merchant": {...}, "product": "Guide", "testMode": true, "cardEnabled": false }

# 2. open the session — email and taxId are REQUIRED
curl -X POST "$API/pay/$SLUG/links/$TOKEN/sessions" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"email":"buyer@domain.com","name":"Ana","taxId":"52998224725"}'
# -> 201 { "sessionId": "fa90ea6d-…", "product": {...}, "status": "…", "expiresAt": "…" }

# 3. charge — THIS step materialises the invoice
curl -X POST "$API/pay/$SLUG/links/$TOKEN/sessions/$SESSION_ID/charge" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"method":"pix"}'
# -> 201 { "invoiceId": "2ae1b610-…", "status": "pending", … }

Three things that cost time if you do not know them:

The invoice does not exist before step 3. The session has no invoiceId — it appears in the charge response. Do not look for it earlier.
The charge is on the session, not on the invoice. /sessions/{id}/charge, not /invoices/{id}/charge. The second one exists and serves path A.
No email → 400 "E-mail is required."; no taxId → 400 "A valid CPF or CNPJ is required." Both in Portuguese, both before any charge happens.

These routes do not require an Idempotency-Key. The rule “every non-GET method requires the key” applies to the authenticated API. The public /pay/* routes — the ones the buyer’s browser calls — accept requests without it.

The taxId 422 arrives at the charge, not at checkout. checkout() accepts a customer without a tax id and creates a finalised and numbered invoice. The 422 customer_tax_id_required only shows up at pay.charge, and that invoice can no longer be paid — it stays open forever in your reporting.The validation lives at the charge because the party requiring the document is the method’s provider, and the method is only chosen there. Collect taxId before creating the invoice; if you already created one without it, clean up:

await infi.invoices.void(invoiceId);   // -> status "void"

The same holds for a customer with no name and no email: one of the two is required (422 customer_name_required).

Finding out they paid

const paid = await infi.pay.waitForPaid({ slug, invoiceId, intervalMs: 700, timeoutMs: 15000 });

Always pass timeoutMs. The default is 600000 — ten minutes — so on an unpaid invoice, which is the normal case, your handler hangs instead of answering. In production the payment.confirmed webhook is the right path; in sandbox registering one answers 503, so it is polling — details in webhooks.

Do not read the invoice only once. Confirmation arrives through the provider’s webhook, a moment after you trigger the payment. A single read returns open and you show “waiting” to somebody who already paid. Measured: the invoice turns paid in under 1s sometimes, and in about 3s other times — the variance is the provider’s network, not yours.

Delivering — and the second poll

Here is the mistake you can make with the whole doc open in front of you: the grant does not exist the instant the invoice turns paid. Delivery runs after the payment confirms, so the first read returns [].

if (paid) {
  let grants = [];
  for (let i = 0; i < 10 && grants.length === 0; i++) {
    grants = await infi.invoices.deliverable(invoiceId);
    if (grants.length === 0) await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 500));
  }
  if (grants[0]) showButton(grants[0].downloadUrl);
}

An empty list is a 200, never a 404 — deliberately, precisely so this is safe to poll in a loop. The rest of the deliverable is in delivering the product.

Testing all of this end to end

In sandbox you close the loop yourself: on Infi’s checkout page, pay with test card 4242 4242 4242 4242 (UK path) or complete test Pix/card on the Brazilian path. There is no shortcut to “confirm as if I had paid”: the invoice becomes paid when the provider reports it, and that is what separates the test from what happens in production. It is spelled out in testing in the sandbox.

The whole page, together

// GET /thanks?invoice=...
const invoiceId = req.query.invoice;
const paid = await infi.pay.waitForPaid({ slug, invoiceId, intervalMs: 700, timeoutMs: 15000 });
if (!paid) return render("waiting", { invoiceId });   // let them reload

let grants = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 10 && grants.length === 0; i++) {
  grants = await infi.invoices.deliverable(invoiceId);
  if (grants.length === 0) await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 500));
}

return render("thanks", {
  download: grants[0]?.downloadUrl,        // may be undefined: product with no deliverable
  order: await myDb.byInvoice(invoiceId),
});

download coming back undefined is not an error: it is a product with no deliverable, or delivery that has not run yet. In both cases, showing “your access arrives by email in a moment” beats an empty screen — and the email does go out, as long as the address is real.

If the sale is reversed

Refunding is not only giving money back: with a digital product the buyer already has the file, and the link is still in their inbox. What decides what happens to the access is the amount of the refund — full switches it off, partial does not. It is in refunds.

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Integration

The thank-you page

Path A: you have the invoice (`checkout()`)

Path B: you sent a payment link

Finding out they paid

Delivering — and the second poll

Testing all of this end to end

The whole page, together

If the sale is reversed

​Path A: you have the invoice (checkout())

​Path B: you sent a payment link

​Finding out they paid

​Delivering — and the second poll

​Testing all of this end to end

​The whole page, together

​If the sale is reversed

Path A: you have the invoice (`checkout()`)

Path B: you sent a payment link

Finding out they paid

Delivering — and the second poll

Testing all of this end to end

The whole page, together

If the sale is reversed