mrcoles | Stripe Developers | Page 1

warm fossilBOT Mar 16, 2023, 4:36 PM

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orchid flint Mar 16, 2023, 4:37 PM

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Hello! For #1, that's correct. For #2, no, if you follow the guide as-is the Customer is created regardless of submission. For #3, that's also correct, you can ignore incomplete Subscriptions.

raw sigil Mar 16, 2023, 4:38 PM

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Thx! Oh interesting—for #2 customer_creation="if_required" —the hosted checkout will create customers regardless of how far the person gets in the checkout?

orchid flint Mar 16, 2023, 4:45 PM

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No, Checkout should only create a Customer if the Checkout Session succeeds.

raw sigil Mar 16, 2023, 4:51 PM

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Oh sorry I mis-worded things in #2—your most recent answer matches how I was interpreting it. So there’ll potentially be a bunch more zombie Customer objects with the Payment Element approach (if I’m allowing unauthed users to create a sub), right? And maybe that’s fine?

orchid flint Mar 16, 2023, 4:52 PM

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Yes. As far as it being fine, it's fine from Stripe's end, but I can't tell you if it's fine for your use case or not. 🙂

raw sigil Mar 16, 2023, 4:53 PM

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Haha, thx

orchid flint Mar 16, 2023, 4:53 PM

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We do generally recommend Checkout, as there are a lot of advantages.

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It would be a less complex integration, less code on your end, you get more updates and features "for free" as we improve Checkout, etc.

raw sigil Mar 16, 2023, 4:53 PM

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My problem is I want to support Scheduled Subscriptions and they don’t work with Checkout (as far as I’m aware)

orchid flint Mar 16, 2023, 4:54 PM

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Can you tell me more? What kind of scheduling do you want to perform?

raw sigil Mar 16, 2023, 4:55 PM

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Payment installments. Purchase 5 months for $100/mo

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(also I have requests for larger up front payment that settles into a lower amount, e.g., something like $1000 first month, $0 2nd month, $100/mo after that)

orchid flint Mar 16, 2023, 4:57 PM

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Checkout doesn't directly support that, but you can create a Subscription with Checkout and then create a Subscription Schedule for that Subscription: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-from_subscription

raw sigil Mar 16, 2023, 4:58 PM

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But then doesn’t the customer see confusing language in checkout like “$100/mo in perpetuity” and that might spook people who are expecting it to be just for 5 months?

orchid flint Mar 16, 2023, 4:59 PM

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Yeah, it wouldn't be perfect. You can test it out in test mode and see what it would be like.

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