Lemon Squeezy createCheckout 500s without an email in checkoutData

TL;DR

Pass checkoutData.email on every programmatic checkout even when you think the field is optional. The maintainer confirmed platform changes were made to address this class of failure.

Steps

1. If Lemon Squeezy's createCheckout gives you a 500 or an invalid-signature page, include the buyer's email in checkoutData. Checkouts created without an email failed server-side in this report, and adding it made creation succeed immediately. Pass checkoutData.email on every programmatic checkout even when you think the field is optional.

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Versions

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Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Source: GitHub issue lmsqueezy/lemonsqueezy.js#87: Creating a checkout through the SDK returned "Invalid signature" on the checkout page and, in another attempt, a bare 500 error. The reporter found the 500 went away as soon as an email was included in checkoutData; without it the checkout could not be created. The maintainer confirmed platform changes were made to address this class of failure.

Verified resolution: If Lemon Squeezy's createCheckout gives you a 500 or an invalid-signature page, include the buyer's email in checkoutData. Checkouts created without an email failed server-side in this report, and adding it made creation succeed immediately. Pass checkoutData.email on every programmatic checkout even when you think the field is optional.

Source URL: https://github.com/lmsqueezy/lemonsqueezy.js/issues/87