Stripe
Stripe email integration
ForwardThis reads and records in Stripe from an email: a customer found by their address, a payment history read back to you, or an invoice raised.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Stripe
Create a free account and connect Stripe. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made, and an undo button if something doesn't look right.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Happy to go ahead with the August work
Add Ellie as a customer and draft her an invoice for £2,400 for the August fit-out, due in 14 days.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Thanks for the revised quote. Happy to go ahead at £2,400 for the August fit-out. Send the invoice over whenever you're ready and we'll pay on our usual 14 days.
Added customer Ellie Hardwick
ellie@carrwoodinteriors.co.uk
Drafted invoice for Carrwood Interiors
£2,400.00 · August fit-out · due 8 Sep
Undo available for 24 hours if something does not look right.
Some other examples
- “Add a note on this customer saying they've asked for 30 day terms from now on.”
- “What's my Stripe balance and when's the next payout?”
- “Has invoice #INV-0142 been paid yet?”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Stripe
Create contact
Add a customer
Update contact
Update a customer's details
Look up a contact
Look up a customer
Add note
Note something on a customer
Add CRM record
Draft an invoice or a quote, or add a catalogue product
Update CRM record
Edit a draft invoice or a draft quote
Delete record
Scrap a draft invoice or cancel a quote
Look up records
Look up invoices, subscriptions, products and more
Read a record
Read one invoice, quote or customer
Read a report
Check the balance and upcoming payouts
Read a spreadsheet
List recent payments
Try it with a real email.
Forward any email to the address below to see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How do I send an email to Stripe?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a simple instruction, like "add them as a customer and draft an invoice for £2,400 due in 14 days". ForwardThis writes the draft from the email, shows you the customer, the amount and the due date, and replies to confirm once it's in Stripe. The first time, you'll need a free account with Stripe connected, which takes about 30 seconds, and that's the entire Stripe email integration.
- Can it take payments or send money?
- No. It never moves money. It will not charge a card, issue a refund, pay anyone out, transfer funds or start a subscription, and there is no setting that turns any of that on. An invoice or a quote it writes stops at draft, so you open Stripe, look at it, and press send yourself.
- Can I create an invoice from an email?
- Yes. Say the amount and who it's for and ForwardThis drafts the invoice in Stripe, defaulting to 30 day terms unless your instructions say otherwise. You can come back later and change a draft's amount, due date or memo, or add another line to it, by forwarding a follow-up email, so a client who adds something in Gmail a day later doesn't send you back to the dashboard. Only drafts can be edited, which is also why the undo is honest: Stripe lets a draft be deleted and never lets a finalised invoice be.
- Can it tell me whether a customer has paid?
- Yes, and reading changes nothing. Ask about a customer, an invoice, recent payments, your balance or the next payout and the answer comes back in a reply. Reading a payout is not the same as making one, and making one stays out.
- How is this different from Stripe's dashboard or Zapier?
- The dashboard is the right place when you're actually doing the billing run, and it's the only place the send button lives. Zapier can push data into Stripe, but you build the rule first and it fires the same way every time. ForwardThis is for the email that just arrived: the client saying yes, the accountant asking whether an invoice went out. You forward it, write a simple instruction, and the customer or the draft exists a moment later.