# "Unable to initiate checkout session"

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-initiate-checkout-session/49028>\
**Category:** Tiers\
**Created:** [July 24, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-initiate-checkout-session/49028 "2024-07-24T17:24:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Yannick\_Coffi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/yannick_coffi/32/31373_2.png) [@Yannick\_Coffi](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Yannick_Coffi)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-initiate-checkout-session/49028/1 "2024-07-24T17:24:03Z")

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I’m having trouble setting up a payment using the Stripe  
… when I validate a plan (tiers) --I get a warning message: “Unable to initiate checkout session”

 ![Screenshot 194](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/3X/3/a/3a25458173515029f766968f2785589faf00b351.png)

### Steps to Reproduce

[How to setup and manage your Stripe account](https://ghost.org/resources/managing-your-stripe-account) 👈👈  
Ghost Version  
5.88.1  
Node.js Version  
18.12.1  
install Ghost?  
self hosting

any idea¿. --thank you!

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**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-initiate-checkout-session/49028/2 "2024-07-24T18:30:05Z")

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Can you open your browser’s dev tools (F12) and see if there’s an error message in the console? That may provide some extra information.

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**Author:** ![Yannick\_Coffi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/yannick_coffi/32/31373_2.png) [@Yannick\_Coffi](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Yannick_Coffi)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-initiate-checkout-session/49028/3 "2024-07-24T18:37:20Z")

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see below 👇👇

 ![Screenshot 195](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/3X/e/2/e2bae7f79c3e1bf05eeb41f4251e72ae3797e482.png)  
  

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-initiate-checkout-session/49028/4 "2024-07-24T19:45:18Z")

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See if you can see any details on the one creating checkout session - if you click it you may be able to see the network request and response.

Several other errors might be theme errors - hard to tell.