CameronBryce - dingbot subscription

[wicked dawn]

Hi 👋

Okay so you want to create a Subscription through Discord.

So have you already created these people as Customers? Or will that be part of the flow?

Would the "guild" in this case = Customer? We need to stick to Stripe object names if we are going to help

[viral burrow]

I am a entry-level developer, so, I might miss something obvious 😄
I have created this link: https://buy.stripe.com/6oEcNq5hC00fgKY9AA

The guild would be the customer in general to make things easier.
My thought process was to have someone buy using this link and when they do, it will show in a database showing they paid. I'm unsure how I would connect it 1:1 for the bot to understand which guild paid.

" I'm unsure how I would connect it 1:1 for the bot to understand which guild paid."
That's my main issue and I apologize if the question is confusing, trying to word best I can. Lol

[wicked dawn]

Okay so you are using a Payment Link here. These are designed to be the most generic interface for collecting payments.

[viral burrow]

Would there by chance be a better way to pay for a Discord Bot subscription instead?

[wicked dawn]

Well, if you are already writing Python code you could create a Checkout Session on your server. It requires some coding but it also allows you to add customer-specific details: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/how-checkout-works

[viral burrow]

Okay, I'll have a look at that. Thank you 😄 I'm just extremely confused on how my bot would know which specific server paid. Lol

[wicked dawn]

That part sounds a bit more exclusive to how you build the bot and what it registers about the discord user who types the keyword.

[viral burrow]

Yeah, I think I'll probably look into it a bit more. I've seen a few bots use Stripe for it but I truly don't understand the process.
By typing a command, it collects your Guild ID and Guild Name automatically, I was thinking by having an /activate command that it would collect that information but even so, if they pay, I'm not sure how to properly identify which guild paid for it.

I'll look into it more before asking questions so I understand what I'm talking about. Thank you for your time 😄

[wicked dawn]

Sure thing 🙂

[wicked dawn]

By typing a command, it collects your Guild ID and Guild Name automatically
If you used Checkout Sessions you could append the Guild ID to the metadata property when you create a Checkout Session.
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment?platform=web&ui=checkout

[viral burrow]

Let me check that 😄 Thank you so much!

[wicked dawn]

You'd want a webhook handler to track the actual confirmation of the payment and collect the metadata from the webhook event: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/fulfill-orders

[viral burrow]

Alright, I'll def try that. It might be a bit more than I'm familiar with but I think with the vids and docs I can get it