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rustic osprey
Hello 👋
We do
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-and-reuse
if these recurring payments are for a subscription scenario then we have an API for that separately.
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions?ui=elements
autumn pawnBOT
tacit mesa
Does the customer have to make an account?
We monthly invoice subscription product (home staging), the billing reocurs each month. We would like to have the information from the customers on the first transaciton, so we can automaticaly process the subsequent months ourselves.
mint tiger
Hi 👋
I'm stepping in as @rustic osprey has to go soon.
I'm not sure what you mean by the customer making an account. Do you mean with Stripe?
tacit mesa
We just want to have the ability for the customer to login to our website, pay the first invoice. The card becomes saved in the stripe account.So we can automatically charge it the following months.
mint tiger
Okay so when you say "pay the first invoice" that sounds like you want to review the second doc my colleague provided. You would create the subscription first and use the initial invoice to save the customer's payment method as the default if the payment is successful.
tacit mesa
correct.
these amounts will change from the first month to the second month, they are not set amounts.
mint tiger
Okay so prices will change each month? Or is there a discount or fee on the first month?
tacit mesa
That is correct. First month has a price, it becomes discounted on the second month.
from the second month until the service ends the price is the same.
mint tiger
Okay so you could do this in another way. Where you create a recurring Price record for the amount to be charged in every other month but include a one-time charge on the first invoice.
That way, you can charge more for the first invoice and then charge the discounted amount for every invoice after that without needing to update any Stripe records