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tough copperBOT Aug 22, 2023, 4:04 AM

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cyan olive Aug 22, 2023, 4:05 AM

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Hi @paper bear I believe I have answered this question yesterday,

paper bear Aug 22, 2023, 4:05 AM

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Uh no, it was an open ended question so no?

cyan olive Aug 22, 2023, 4:08 AM

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So you want to use a saved payment method to create a subscription for you customer, am I right?

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If you already have acollected the payment method, you can call the subscription API directly to create a subsctipion without using Checkout https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription

Stripe API reference – Create a subscription – curl

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

paper bear Aug 22, 2023, 4:15 AM

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So you want to use a saved payment method to create a subscription for you customer, am I right? --> Well, yes. But the customers are saved as 'Guest Customers' so it's not possible to create subscriptions out of them.

cyan olive Aug 22, 2023, 4:18 AM

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No you need to create a customer first, in fact the payment method can't be saved without a customer.

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https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions?ui=checkout If you don't have saved payment methods, I'd suggest you to use Checkout to create subscriptions for your customers. Checkout will help you collect the payment method, attach to the customer and use that payment method for recurring payments

Build a subscriptions integration

Create and manage subscriptions to accept recurring payments.

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