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Check Stripe for an Existing Customer Before the Handoff

Catch existing customer records early, so the team can avoid duplicate billing profiles and start with the right context.

Trigger

Webhook received

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

Action

List customers

Retrieves a list of stripe customers, with options to filter by email, creation date, or test clock, and support for pagination.

Why this helps

A new sales lead may already have a Stripe record, but checking manually adds another interruption to the handoff.

  • Check Stripe using an email included in the lead payload.
  • Give the team a focused match result before billing setup.
  • Reduce avoidable duplicate customer records.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect BlitzAPI and Stripe once in Notis.
  • 2Create an automation from any channel or in Automations, New Automation.
  • 3In one instruction, ask Notis to list Stripe customers matching the lead email and report likely matches for human review.
  • 4Choose the webhook trigger and where run reports should go.
  • 5Send one real lead with a known email as a test and check the report.

Questions about this workflow

Does this workflow create a customer if it finds none?

No. This workflow checks for matches and reports the result. Use a separate approved handoff to create a Stripe customer.

What if the lead has no email?

Have Notis report that no email was supplied and request a manual review rather than treating the search as conclusive.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Blitz API to Stripe. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Blitz API triggers

Stripe actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Cancel subscription

Cancels a customer's active stripe subscription at the end of the current billing period, with options to invoice immediately for metered usage and prorate charges for unused time.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Confirm payment intent

Confirms a stripe paymentintent to finalize a payment; a `return url` is necessary if the payment method requires customer redirection.

ActionInstant

Create Customer

Creates a new customer in stripe, required for creating charges or subscriptions; an email is highly recommended for customer communications.

ActionInstant

Create an invoice

Creates a new draft stripe invoice for a customer; use to revise an existing invoice, bill for a specific subscription (which must belong to the customer), or apply detailed customizations.

ActionInstant

Create payment intent

Creates a stripe paymentintent to initiate and process a customer's payment; using `application fee amount` for a connected account requires the `stripe-account` header.

ActionInstant

Create a price

Creates a new stripe price for a product, defining its charges (one-time or recurring) and billing scheme; requires either an existing `product` id or `product data`.

ActionInstant

Create product

Creates a new product in stripe, encoding the request as `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` by flattening nested structures.

ActionInstant

Create Refund

Creates a full or partial refund in stripe, targeting either a specific charge id or a payment intent id.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Blitz API and Stripe, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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