Sending transaction details from Braintree

Quaderno automatically generates your invoices and credit notes with the customer details received from Braintree, which in turn receives the information collected by the platform you are using to manage your sales.

Customizing the customer billing info

If you’d like to customize the billing info in your invoices, you can do so using the billing_address and custom_fields hashes when you create the Braintree Customer in your backend system.

When creating a customer in Braintree we always recommend sending the country and IP address. This will make it easier to be EU VAT compliant.

For B2B sales, you should also send your customer's tax_id in the custom_fields field.

We’re a Rails house at Quaderno, so here’s how we’d do it in Ruby:

customer = Braintree::Customer.create(
  first_name: 'Maurice',
  last_name: 'Moss',
  company: 'Reynholm Industries',
  email: '[email protected]',
  payment_method_nonce: 'nonce-from-the-client',
  credit_card: {
    billing_address: {
      street_address: '123 Carenden Road',
      locality: 'London',
      postal_code: 'EC5M 8AJ',
      country_code_alpha2: 'GB'
    }
  },
  custom_fields: {
    tax_id: 'GB184089977',
    ip_address: request.ip
  }
)

Customizing the transaction info

For one-off transactions, you can also specify the description of the transaction with custom_fields when creating the transaction in Braintree. For example:

transaction = Braintree::Transaction.sale(
  amount: '10.00',
  payment_method_nonce: nonce_from_the_client,
  custom_fields: {
    transaction_description: 'The Neverending Story, Michael Ende (EPUB)'
  }
)

Custom fields

All custom_fields fields are optional. Quaderno can handle the following: