mekhami-donation-sub

[rugged junco]

hello, you want to use PaymentElement + Subscriptions

that way you have a form (PaymentElement) on your own page and you create a Subscription which runs recurring payments

give a read through this (its long but has all the details) https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions?ui=elements

and this is the overarching doc on Subscription states: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/overview#how-payments-work-subscriptions

[paper laurel]

It looked like, from reading this, that I need to create price objects for these subscriptions. I'd end up having to just create a price object arbitrarily for every price point my users end up wanting to donate at. Is that normal?

[rugged junco]

I'd end up having to just create a price object arbitrarily for every price point my users end up wanting to donate at. Is that normal?
you can pass price_data inline when creating the Subscription. That way you don't have to create a Price up front

and works with your donations use-case

https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-items-price_data

this will create Price objects under the hood in your account, you can just ignore them really

but it allows you to create a Price in-line

[paper laurel]

okay that's useful. and can I associate all of these to one product id? or do i need to create products as well?

[rugged junco]

one Product <> n Prices

is the approach generally

[paper laurel]

perfect. okay i'll take this approach and see how far i get. thank you 🙂