Sir AF Kay

[cinder cosmos]

A Customer object has to be created separately unfortunately. That's a cool feature idea though, so I'm happy to raise that as feedback to the product team.

[sinful trench]

Ah tis a shame... Yes please do, I'd love to see a feature like this as it is a monumental time sap in the running of my business. I'm just a sole trader so the less time I could spend on these administrative tasks, the more time I can spend on completing and securing new business.

[cinder cosmos]

Totally hear you. Are you running a no-code integration? Why not put together a quick and easy customer onboarding form?

And yeah! I will absolutely raise that as feedback. I know the product team is still working on figuring out what the next best features are going to be, so I'm happy to make sure this is on their radar

[sinful trench]

I'm yet to fully implement my integration as I'm migrating to stripe from a different solution. (Kinda doing a full revamp of my services and administrative pipeline.) So I'm open to ideas.

I just wanted to double check and see if stripe could assist with that part. I'll likely code the majority of my pipeline myself, just doing my research at this point.

[sinful trench]

Expanding on this, would it be possible to use firebase to perform customer authentication, then subsequently create a new customer within stripe from the firebase onboarding process?

[cinder cosmos]

I'm not very familiar with Firebase and unfortunately we often dread questions about Firebase in this channel because it can be a pain to connect Firebase to Stripe due to the lack of documentation on how best to do it (i.e. some of the most helpful docs on building that pipeline are Medium articles of varying publish times)

Customer objects on Stripe are one of the more flexible objects, since you can create one with little-to-no required information, so I'm sure if the pipeline allows for making external API calls then the integration shouldn't be too hard

[sinful trench]

Yeah, that tallies up with my current experience using Firebase, the documentation tends to be all over the place, and helpful content is often outdated or poorly vetted.

[sinful trench]

Understood, I'll look into that route a little further before I make a decision. Thanks for the assist on this. Tis' much appreciated.