#amilcar - Stripe Setup

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brittle bolt
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Hi 👋

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Are you using Stripe Connect? Why would your customers need a Stripe account?

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thank you for your reply Snufkin! yeah i'm using stripe connect! you know, i was reading through the docs and it didnt state that my customers need a stripe account. but after they purchase a suscription i'm receiven back a customer_id. on the docs, within the manage subscriptions tab, on step 4. provision and monitor subscriptions im reading:

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case 'checkout.session.completed':
        // Payment is successful and the subscription is created.
        // You should provision the subscription and save the customer ID to your database.
        break;
brittle bolt
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  1. Connect does not equal Customers
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You will need Customer records as well if you plan on charging these individuals

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Which doc are you referring to?

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im on step 4 of this flow!

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my main concerned is about this customer_id

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when the subscription is successful and the webhook gets triggered im receiving that param

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but as far as i understand stripe is the one making the request to that endpoint

brittle bolt
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What about the customer ID?

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how can i connect that customer_id with the customer that made the purchase if is stripe the one making the request to my api?

brittle bolt
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What request are you talking about? Do you have an example subscription ID?

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Subscriptions require a Customer to be set when creating them. They are Customer specific

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If you are using a Checkout Session to create the Subscription and you are not explicitly creating a Customer, then Stripe will create a generic one to satisfy that requirement

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If you specify always then the Checkout Session will create a customer based on the information it collects

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brittle bolt
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The request to your API webhook endpoint is to notify you of activity on your Stripe account

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Also webhook event object IDs will start with evt_

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But yes, in this case there is a Customer ID

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The customer was created as a result of using a Checkout session to create a subscription. As I said, all subscriptions require a Customer record associated with them

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got it snuf! the customer is being created during checkout.session.create but i can explicitly create it before the checkout.session.create and feed those options with the newly created customer?

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and save whatever information i need from that customer to my DB?

brittle bolt
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Actually the Customer is created when your customer completes the payment.

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But if you have the data you need to identify customers in your integration and what a Customer record in Stripe that lines up with your DB then you can create the Customer record yourself and pass it to the Checkout session

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ok awesome! i guess my other question would be! if i dont provide a customer and they complete a payment. stripe creates that customer for me and i get a customer_id, with that customer_id i get to retrieve information from stripe about that customer recurring charges right?

brittle bolt
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Yup

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For example, Customer is a parameter you can use to filter the Subscription List API

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but if that exact same customer then make not a subscription purchase, but a one-time purchase and i dont neither provide any customer info to that action stripe recognizes the same customer and i get the same customer_id from that other purchase or is it a different customer_id i get from this other one-time purchase? idk if that makes sense

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would you recommend creating a customer on stripe for every customer that signs up on my app? and just make all the request to stripe with that customer_id?

brittle bolt
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That did not. No.

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If you want to have all the purchases of your customers associated together then it would make sense to create a Customer record for each of your users.

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aight! i guess that answers my question snuf! thank you for your time