kado-kaelan - Multiple Subscriptions

[rigid fulcrum]

Hello! Yeah, what are the details?

[sudden fractal]

Alright, so, user signs up, stripe customer is created -> they chose their pricing plan (all include a week trial) -> insert card information and click submit which creates a stripe subscription and confirmCardSetup

so all of that works dandy

but if i type in an invalid card number itll still create the subscription then fail at confirmcardsetup

i create the subscription prior to confirmcardsetup because i need the clientSecret

[rigid fulcrum]

That sounds expected, with the Subscription's status being incomplete at that point, right?

[rigid fulcrum]

Oh, okay, you're using trials, so trialing would be the status in that case.

[sudden fractal]

right so would i have to clear these out manually or is there a different flow i could use

[rigid fulcrum]

Why do you want to clear them out? I think I'm still missing some key information.

If you have a trial period and the trial is still active why would you want to clear them out?

[sudden fractal]

because that entry was created with an invalid card number

so once i enter a valid card number it will create another one under same email

[rigid fulcrum]

You don't let people update their existing trialing Subscriptions with the correct card info?

[sudden fractal]

This is all happening on same screen

[rigid fulcrum]

Setup Intents are intended to be reused until they succeed; the idea is that if the first payment info provided fails confirmation of the Setup Intent you get new info and attempt to confirm the same Setup Intent again.

[sudden fractal]

ah okay

so i need to check if they already have an active intent?

[rigid fulcrum]

What I would recommend is:

1. Sign up button pressed
2. Server creates a Subscription
3. Subscription's client secret is passed to your frontend code
4. Use Stripe.js to confirmCardSetup
5. If that fails show an error and have them put in a new card number, then click sign up again
6. Call confirmCardSetup again with the client secret you already have

[sudden fractal]

gotcha. Im goofing up by creating multiple subscriptions in the same session

if error need to use the same clientsecret