Pain-create-customer

[hazy adder]

Hello 👋
It'd typically depend on your integration and how your app is handling the data.
If they're not going to have a subscription now but will have one in future, you could choose to create a stripe customer now or later.
Really the best approach here would depend on how much consistency you'd want between the customers and their information

[feral rose]

That's where I'm kind of stuck, the examples I saw all create the customer when registering the user.

If I don't do it on registration, I'd have to add an additional check every time there is a successful payment.

=> Does the user have a customer account?
-> No? Create one
-> Yes? Ignore

Are there any drawbacks to doing it on registration?

[hazy adder]

Not really. I don't think having an additional customer objects on Stripe would create issues on your app if you're not using them anywhere