Preview a transaction

POST {{baseUrl}}/transactions/preview

Previews a transaction without creating a transaction entity. Typically used for creating more advanced, dynamic pricing pages where users can build their own plans.

Consider using the preview prices operation for simpler pricing pages.

You can provide location information when previewing a transaction. You must provide this if you want Paddle to calculate tax or automatically localize prices. You can provide one of:

• customer_ip_address: Paddle fetches location using the IP address to calculate totals.
• address: Paddle uses the country and ZIP code (where supplied) to calculate totals.
• customer_id, address_id, business_id: Paddle uses existing customer data to calculate totals. Typically used for logged-in customers.

When supplying items, you can exclude items from the total calculation using the include_in_totals boolean.

By default, recurring items with trials are considered to have a zero charge when previewing. Set ignore_trials to true to ignore trial periods against prices for transaction preview calculations.

If successful, your response includes the data you sent with a details object that includes totals for the supplied prices.

Transaction previews do not create transactions, so no id is returned.

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