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[tranquil rock]

👋 happy to help

it depends on how you want to handle it

you can read through this guide https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/designing-integration

[odd hound]

the customers on my site will buy a monthly subscription, at registration a customer is created on my dashboard

[tranquil rock]

it might help you with your choices

[odd hound]

so basically I have to initiate a checkout session linked to the subscription?

[tranquil rock]

that's one way

the other way would be to create subscriptions with collection_method: "send_invoice"

which basically means that we will send the invoice for the customer to pay on our Hosted Invoice Page

[odd hound]

that's for the payments after the first one right?

I was talking about the first payment and then it will be charged automatically

[tranquil rock]

no if the collection_method is send_invoice then all payments will go through the Hosted Invoice Page

[odd hound]

in that case the client has to manually pay every month, I wanted to charge automatically, the doubt I had is how I can setup the first payment so the customer puts his info and initiates the subsription

[tranquil rock]

then the checkout scenario is good in your case

[odd hound]

I have to create a product, let the customer buy the product (subscription) and the rest is done automatically right? so in theory in my website I just have to create a customer and initiate a checkout

no need to link the customer to a subscription manually as "create subscription"

[tranquil rock]

if you create the Checkout Session and pass the customer ID then yes

[odd hound]

ok I got it, when I pass the "customer" attribute then stripe links an already existent customer to the payment process

but in that case, where does the actual payment happen? will stripe create a link automatically with a payment form?

[tranquil rock]

I'm not sure I understand your question