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fallen fossil
If you use invoicing, the customer portal allows customers to view past invoices: https://docs.stripe.com/customer-management
Otherwise, you'd need to build a ui yourself to display their past purchases to them
tender marsh
Are they only able to view invoices?
tender marsh
That is, we're looking for a way for our app to connect with Stripe so the app knows the user has a valid subscription. Is there a way to do that?
Say the user purchases a subscription via Stripe, then opens the app... how can the app verify the user has a valid subscription?
fallen fossil
That is, we're looking for a way for our app to connect with Stripe so the app k...
Yeah you'd need to make a call from your app to your server. Then your server will return to the app info about the subscription
By either querying your database or the stripe api
tender marsh
What does the user need to enter? Like, how does the app say 'does THIS user have a valid subscription?'?
fallen fossil
I'd assume you have some sort of login system in your app, no?
Where you manage credentials
Then you can query your backend for active subscription info
tender marsh
We don't currently have a login system (it's currently based on Apple ID). What we're planning is for the user to open the app, enter Stripe login credentials, then the app communicates with Stipe to verify whether that user has a valid subscription
fallen fossil
enter Stripe login credentials
What stripe credentials?
Customers don't have credentials
Unless they're stripe account holders
Credential management is up to you
tender marsh
Ok, so Stripe doesn't have any kind of account management, correct? Any account/credential management would be 100% on us, and Stripe would just be there for the payment processing portion?
fallen fossil
correct
tender marsh
Ok, thank you. Do you know of any third parties that offer account management? We'd love to use Stripe for the payment portion but not develop the account management portion ourselves
tender marsh
We did, and the Stripe sales rep indicated that wouldn't be an issue.
But this is helpful--I really appreciate your time.
fallen fossil
No problem