chimp-pricingtable-customer

[fickle flint]

@livid hull that's expected behaviour

chimp-pricingtable-customer

there's no way currently to re-use an existing Customer id with PricingTable. It's a no-code solution tailored for devs who just want to drop some simple HTML in their code

[livid hull]

hmm i think i had this working before. right now i create a stripe customer when the signup to my website. and when they choose a price plan stripe them makes a new customer for them and does not use the old one

oh...

what is the alternative?

[fickle flint]

No alternative for now unless you write your own logic/code to detect if the customer exists and if so use another solution like sending them to Checkout

[livid hull]

hmm i thought this works with the client-reference-id

[fickle flint]

no it doesn't. client-reference-id is really purely an id for your own reconciliation

[livid hull]

ok so what youre saying is if im linking my client ref id to my user id in my database that hold the existing stripe_customer_id. then the pricing table will still always create a new customer?

[fickle flint]

yes

[livid hull]

ah ok thanks. curious why hasnt stripe done this?

[fickle flint]

We have no plan to do it based on client-reference-id It's purely something you control so taht wouldn't be safe, anyone could use this id and then see someone else's data

So we're working on adding the ability to re-use an existing customer but it will require server-side code

[livid hull]

ok great

since ill have to build this myself and i like the pricing table design. do you have anywhere i can copy the pricing table html css code?

[fickle flint]

no none of this is copyable, you'd have to rebuild this mostly entirely yourself

[livid hull]

ok fantastic

[fickle flint]

in the future, when we add support for re-using an existing customer, it'll be easier.