Juggernaut-subscription-creation | Stripe Developers | Page 1

glossy parcel Jan 11, 2022, 11:38 AM

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Hello! How are you currently integrating? Have you seen our subscription integration guide: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscription?ui=elements

Build a subscription

Create and manage subscriptions to accept recurring payments.

grand solar Jan 11, 2022, 11:38 AM

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yes

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Actually I'm familiar with subscription

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but my client is in direct contact with some stripe support

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and was suggested to use invoices

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to send payment link via email to their customers

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Now I'm struggling with creation of invoice of recurring prices

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I'm using stripe APIs

glossy parcel Jan 11, 2022, 11:42 AM

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If you're working with a recurring model, then you'd need a subscription to automate the recurring payments/invoices. Otherwise you'd be handling that yourself

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To be clear, you can create a subscription will a recurring price that will email the invoice (with a payment link) each billing cycle. As opposed to automated payments

grand solar Jan 11, 2022, 11:45 AM

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okay, so it goes something like this

create customer > create a plan > create a recurring price > create a subcription of customer with this price

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this will automatically send a payment ??

glossy parcel Jan 11, 2022, 11:47 AM

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That's the general flow, yes. With a subscription you can set whether payment will be attempted automatically (via a saved payment method), or whether the invoice will be sent for payment

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That's determined by the collection_method parameter on creation: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-collection_method

Stripe API reference – Create a subscription – curl

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So depending on how you want your customers to pay for their recurring service, will impact how you build the integration

grand solar Jan 11, 2022, 11:48 AM

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okay.. the end goal is to automate the payment

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it's just the first payment which is our concern

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we do not wanna hold the card details

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therefore this was what client thinking,,, that the invoice will first time collect card details and then later on will automatically charge customer

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is it possible by any means?

glossy parcel Jan 11, 2022, 11:51 AM

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It's possible yes, the hosted invoice page (from the invoice email) can save payment methods: https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/hosted-invoice-page#payment-method-persistence

Hosted Invoice Page

Use the Hosted Invoice Page to securely collect payment from your customers.

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From there, you'd need to update the collection_method parameter on the Subscription object to automate future payments

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Although this is a bit of an off piste integration. Why the reluctance to capture payment methods up front for the initial payment?

grand solar Jan 11, 2022, 11:54 AM

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because we won't be having the payment method in order to bind to the subscription

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see, we have 2 plan system... where the user create a subcription with card details once... ( we've used checkout session method )

the second plan is a daily basis charge system.. but here taking the card details second times create a doubtful impact

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