Shahriyar

[true gyro]

You want to send your customer to a Stripe-hosted page for paying the first invoice?

[old oxide]

yeah

[true gyro]

React is most irrelevant here, and these are both back end operations

Have you considered using Stripe Checkout to create subscriptions?

You can create your own subscriptions and direct customers to the hosted invoice payment page, but Checkout might be a better overall experience that supprots more payment methods

Using Checkout: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions?ui=checkout

You can optionally create the customer first and provide the customer ID

[old oxide]

So I can create customer without the fields

payment_method: ?,
invoice_settings: {
  default_payment_method: ?,
}

Then I get the customer id and create a subscription

[true gyro]

If you want to manage the subscription creation yourself, then you can create it with payment_behavior=default_incomplete
then redirect the customer to the Invoice URL:
1/ Create subscription like this: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions?ui=elements#create-subscription
2/ From the latest_invoice get the invoice hosted_invoice_url to redirect your customer:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-hosted_invoice_url

[old oxide]

Then after the subscription has been created how do I return the link where I will redirect the user to pay

[true gyro]

Yes, correct

[true gyro]

That's what i explained in the message above

[old oxide]

Okay, let me try it real quick and I will get back to you if I succeed or fail

[true gyro]

However, this requires manually handling the default payment method setup, so I'd recommend evaluating Checkout if you're already looking for a redirect-based flow.

[old oxide]

I have a webhook and I will store the metadata on the subscription creation and let the webhook handle the other things that needs to be done after payment is done

So which will be best in this scenario

[true gyro]

I would still suggest Checkout, which can automatically set up the payment method for you for the renewal invoices

[old oxide]

ok so how do get the checkout page link from a created subscription

[true gyro]

You don't create the subscription, you create a checkout session and redirect your customer to that

Checkout creates the subscription once your customer has filled in the payment form

[true gyro]

Following this guide