#Pain - Subscriptions
night elm
Hello, kind of in a dilemma currently and need some advice/insight. I understand that subscriptions can be handled by Stripe entirely but what if I wish to accept other form of payments alongside Stripe?
Would this mean I would have to handle the entire "subscription" flow myself and alongside customers (create them on stripe, add cards, charge them)?
Would I collect the card information and add it to a customer on stripe, then charge it accordingly?
queen frigate
The short answer is yes, you'd need to manage the Subscription logic on your end. The long answer depends on the specifics of your situation. What other forms of payment do you want to accept that Stripe does not support?
night elm
I was looking to integrate PayPal, PaySafeCards, Crypto and maybe something else.
night elm
The short answer is yes, you'd need to manage the Subscription logic on your end...
Does this mean I would have to get the card information from the client and store it onto Stripe and if that's to be charged, I would use the charge intent?
vital lantern
You would have to manage them on your own. You can leverage Stripe subscriptions and have Stripe handle the invoice and scheduling... but have an out of band pay with PayPal, PaySafeCards, and Crypto on those.
night elm
You would have to manage them on your own. You can leverage Stripe subscriptions...
I was thinking of something similar initially, but wasn't so sure if it would work. What you're saying is, instead of handling the entire subscription on my end, use Stripe Subscriptions and rely on it's invoices & schedules to handle the subscription then use logic on my end for the charges?
vital lantern
That is correct. Leveraging Stripe Billing for invoices and schedules would be ideal so you'd just handle the out of band payments on your end.
Here is how you can mark paid out of band invoices: https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/overview#paid