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[inland patio]

Hello os4m37

[tribal jetty]

👋

[inland patio]

Hello, can you please guide me on api reference and flow

I need to implement subscription model in our system just like netflix.

I need to give free trial to customer for starting 10 days but capture their credit card details. for future autmatically capture payments from customer saved payment method. Need to have webhooks for all events so I can provision customer access. Also if automatic payment failed how we can proceed with it.

[tribal jetty]

This guide is a good starting point

https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions

And this one for configuring trial

Then you can monitor the æctive subscription using these webhooks:
https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/webhooks#active-subscriptions

You can do multiple simulations using Stripe test clock:
https://docs.stripe.com/billing/testing/test-clocks

[graceful river]

👋 taking over for my colleague. Let me know if there's any follow-up Qs I can answer!

[inland patio]

sure i am still confused over the flow.

keeping trial thing apart. I need to implement subscription flow

[graceful river]

ok let's start by figuring out how you want to integrate with Stripe?

do you want to use the Checkout Sessions (hotsted or embedded) or are you looking for a custom form using PaymentElement?

[inland patio]

First I need to capture customer credit card details only so it will be saved payment method against my customer on stripe

then i did not need any any form stripe will automatically capture funds from client saved payment method

this is what i need to implement

[graceful river]

what you're describing is basically using SetupIntents to attach a PaymentMethod to your customer and then creating the Subscription later

that's not how we recommend building the Subscription flow

[inland patio]

I need same like netflix

how it captures customer credit card at first and then capture amount automatically when subscription ends adn satrt new one

[graceful river]

regardless of what the UI will finally look like

the integration path is still the same

also that doesn't answer which Stripe component you will be using Checkout Sessions or PaymentElement

let's start by taking that decision

https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout vs https://docs.stripe.com/payments/payment-element

[inland patio]

I will be using checkout session api for custom ui

[graceful river]

in that case you need to be looking at this guide here https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions?platform=web&ui=embedded-form

[inland patio]

this is the form to collect money from customer ?

and it will save the payment method for future use right ?

[graceful river]

yes

you just need to pass the subscription_data for trial and the recurring price in the line_items

you can download this quickstart https://docs.stripe.com/checkout/embedded/quickstart if you haven't started with your project

of course instead of mode payment you would replace that with mode subscription

[inland patio]

i am checking this

[graceful river]

let me know if you need any more help

[inland patio]

I am checking

dont need to do anything for future auto payments strip will auto deduct from credit card ?

[graceful river]

yes, but you also need to keep track of payment failures due to requiring additional action from the user

that was what my colleague was trying to say when they suggested using webhooks https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/webhooks#additional-action

to provision access to your service

[inland patio]

you just need to pass the subscription_data for the recurring price in the line_items

where to send subscription_data recurring price

[graceful river]

you pass https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-line_items-price for the recurring price

and https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-subscription_data-trial_period_days for trial days

[inland patio]

recurring price is what stripe will capture from customer card when subscription endds? and stripe will again deduct amount ?

to continue that subscription ?

[graceful river]

no the recurring price is the price per cycle

so each cycle Stripe will attempt collecting that price

[inland patio]

I have 2 products for moonthly subscription and yearly subscription. can you send me an example checkout session api which mention recurring price, mode subscription etc

[graceful river]

https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions?platform=web&ui=embedded-form#create-a-checkout-session

but you can't have 2 different price intervals in the same subscription

like a yearly and a monthly prices

[inland patio]

line_items: {
price_data: {
currency: "",
product: "product_id",
recurring: {
interval: "month",
internal_count: 3
}
}
}

is this right

[fleet knot]

Hi! I'm taking over from my colleague. Please, give me a moment to catch up.

[inland patio]

sure