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maiden cosmosBOT Jan 9, 2025, 4:46 PM

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restive oracle Jan 9, 2025, 4:47 PM

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SOrry but that question doesn't make any sense

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Subscriptions are part of the Stripe Billing suite of products

barren flax Jan 9, 2025, 4:48 PM

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So we need the Stripe Billing to use that API, correct?

restive oracle Jan 9, 2025, 4:49 PM

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Yes

barren flax Jan 9, 2025, 4:49 PM

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Thank you!

restive oracle Jan 9, 2025, 4:49 PM

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Happy to shed what 💡 I can 🙂

barren flax Jan 9, 2025, 4:50 PM

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Can I ask you a few more quick questions?

restive oracle Jan 9, 2025, 4:51 PM

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Sure, as long as it's focused on coding integrations with the APIs

barren flax Jan 9, 2025, 4:54 PM

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I need to understand the basic workflow when it comes to customers. We mainly sell subs. When creating a Session, I may have a customer who hasn't purchased before or one that has. I am assuming that for a new customer, I send at least the email address and possibly more info. Then capture a Customer ID from the returned session and store it. If they purchase again, I can send the Customer ID in the session. Is this correct?

restive oracle Jan 9, 2025, 4:56 PM

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If you are using Stripe Checkout to create the Subscriptions, then Checkout will collect the customer email and whatever additional data is required based on the payment method & currency.

barren flax Jan 9, 2025, 4:57 PM

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We are but then we need something for future purchases or managing the subscriptions. Can this be done with a Customer ID of some kind?

restive oracle Jan 9, 2025, 4:59 PM

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Yes, you can provide the customer ID to the Checkout Session to ensure that future subscriptions (or other purchases) are linked to that Customer.

https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-customer

barren flax Jan 9, 2025, 5:01 PM

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Thank you for your help

restive oracle Jan 9, 2025, 5:02 PM

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Happy to do it

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