I don't know the flow how subscription works in stripe and how to update credit card details, price, billing cycle of a subscription. Will they debit amount on subscription or after first billing cycle. And it will be helpful if you have examples in NodeJS.
There is a repo with various demos for any api-server implementation you would like, which includes nodeJS:
https://github.com/stripe-samples/subscription-use-cases/tree/master/fixed-price-subscriptions
Billing cycle is setup on stripe when you setup the product, and the demo includes a provision for updating plans
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I am using the Stripe dashboard to create a subscription product link. This will be a simple web link - I am not using a server or the Stripe API. I want the subscription to be monthly, but end automatically after 6 months and stop charging the customer.
I see in the Stripe API documentation this can be accomplished with Phases and Iterations and setting end_behavior=cancel. But I don't see how to do this with Payment Links - there is only the option to add name/value metadata fields for the payment link.
Is it possible to have a Stripe Subscription link that ends after a number of iterations without having to use the server API or webhooks (just using the dashboard)?
I am trying to figure out how I can get the final total amount from Stripe for a subscription plan with a coupon applied, without charging the customer to show in the confirmation page before checkout.
I see there is API in Stripe to get Plan info and Coupon info that created in Stripe Dashboard but I want to find out if there is a way to get the Plan pricing info after applying Coupon but without charging the customer. All of the rules for the coupon exist in Stripe Dashboard so wanted to see if there is a way Stripe can give me the pricing info otherwise the rules for Coupon would be duplicated in Stripe and in my application server.
You can use the Upcoming Invoice API [1]. Pass in the Customer or Subscription, Coupon, and any invoice items to see what an upcoming invoice would look like for a Customer.
[1] https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/upcoming
i want to implement SCA in my project.i would like to know whether SCA forces the user to complete 2 factor authentication while update,cancel,resume subscription.so i can handle the code accordingly.so far stripe didn't ask me.Thanks in advance.
SDA comes into play for authenticating online card payments. Stripe Billing has been updated to support SCA requirements.
You won't necessarily need to authenticate for all subscription changes (such as cancel or update) but you could for scenarios like a subscription signup, a card change on a subscription, or on a recurring charge on a subscription.
The following link describes the scenarios and tools you would leverage for Stripe Billing + SCA: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/migration/strong-customer-authentication#upgrading-integration
I have a subscription, I collect card details on signup with a 7 day trial, after which the subscription bills monthly.
From what I understand the subscription API is not SCA compliant. Instead
An off_session payment Intent must first be setup when collecting card details.
At the end of each month a scheduler must be triggered to attempt to charge the registered card.
Is this the case? Am I now responsible for scheduling payments?
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For those who want some starter code, I created a working playground here with subscriptions, frontend (react) and backend (express) on glitch.
It's not true that Stripe's Subscription API is not SCA-ready, it is, and you don't have to set up your own scheduling like that. The docs you linked to are generally aimed at processing one-off payments(like saving a customer's details and then allowing them to use them again when they re-visit your site to purchase something new, for example) as opposed to recurring ones.
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/payment describes how to set up a subscription in a way that is SCA-ready. While the customer is on-session on your payment page, you collect card details and create a subscription for the customer, which will generally attempt a payment for the first billing period. You then check the status of the subscription after it's created, and handle the outcomes:
the subscription is active and the payment was successful, so you can proceed with provisioning your service to the customer.
the subscription is incomplete — for SCA purposes, let's say this is because 3D Secure authentication was required for that first payment. In this case, the latest_invoice of the subscription exposes a PaymentIntent property, and you use that PaymentIntent in conjunction with your frontend code using stripe.js to walk the customer through authenticating the payment, and that activates the subscription.
the subscription is trialing — if the subscription doesn't involve an initial payment, like when using a trial period for example, you can also check if the subscription has a pending_setup_intent. You can use this on your frontend to have the customer complete a 3D Secure authentication, so that future payments(like the first one after the trial) are more likely to successfully claim an exemption and not require having the user authenticate at that point.
You can also instead use Stripe Checkout to easily collect payment details and set up a customer and subscription for you, while also handling any initial authentication that's needed : https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/server#create-subscriptions
As for the recurring payments, Billing can handle that for you. You can configure you settings to automatically email the customer to complete 3D Secure if it's encountered on a recurring payment. So you can absolutely build an SCA-ready solution with the subscriptions API on Stripe.
I can find a good payment solution for my site and recurring payments. I've been looking around but can't find any great way of doing it.
On our site our customers are spending virtual credits. The charge their account with new credits when their credits are out. We want to provide them with an automatic refill functionality but we do not want to deal with all the PCI-DSS problems that comes with it.
Basically I'm looking for the following functionality:
The payment provider should expose (secure hosted pages) where the customer provides all credit card details.
My site loads the hosted pages with some customerID (to be able to map tokenID with customerID in the last step).
When the customer has registered his credit card details the payment provider sends a notification to my site that credit card details has been tokenized with a tokenID for customerID.
In the future I charge my customer with an API call:
API::charge(currency,amount, tokenID);
Is there any payment providers out there that can do this?
You can't use a normal recurring billing system if the amounts change from cycle to cycle. The best you can do is use a service like Authorize.Net's Customer Information Manager (CIM) to store the credit card and billing information for you and then you create your own scheduling engine that charges against the payment method you have stored for them using CIM. CIM also allows you to make off-cycle payments at any time as well.