humblegawwwd | Stripe Developers | Page 1

stray tundraBOT Oct 2, 2023, 1:15 PM

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noble dove Oct 2, 2023, 1:16 PM

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The client ID should be set to what you set it to but we do not support choosing a capital-c Customer (one that you have a Stripe object for) via that parameter

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Checking in to why the client ID is not getting passed on and what you can do here

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Are you looking to re-use existing customer objects?

icy girder Oct 2, 2023, 1:17 PM

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yes

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on my website (which is fairly greenfield right now) I track who a customer is in stripe through their stripe_id.

Should I be passing in my own site's userId as a client-reference-id? If I did that, how would I deal with things like cancellations, updating subscriptions, etc...

noble dove Oct 2, 2023, 1:32 PM

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If you want to re-use the Customer ID, you would need to use Stripe Checkout for subsequent sessions after the first time the user pays you.

For things like cancellations and updating subscriptions, you can use our customer portal, which has low code and no-code integration options https://stripe.com/docs/no-code/customer-portal

Set up the customer portal

Let your customers manage their own billing accounts with a portal that Stripe hosts.

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Looking for docs on re-using the Customer in Checkout

icy girder Oct 2, 2023, 1:33 PM

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So in otherwords, let the first time with the pricing table generate the pricing id. Then use that subsequently with a customer portal?

noble dove Oct 2, 2023, 1:34 PM

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Yes, the first session will create a Customer with a Customer ID (cus_1234) and after that, that ID is what you can use to tell Stripe to do things with that customer

icy girder Oct 2, 2023, 1:34 PM

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What would the portal look like when I open it the second or later time. My worry is that I won't be able to customize the interface enough to be usable

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