Stripe Payments - Add existing card to customer

Question

I have a Squarespace app that has collected charges for customers, however Squarespace does not create customer objects, it just stores charges.

My goal: When a user makes a purchase, create a Customer object with a subscription plan attached so we can make recurring charges to the card.

I can pull up a list of charges via the stripe test API and each charge has a source in it that contains a card token. So to my understanding I should be able to create a customer and pass in the source or source Id and it will add the source to that customer.

Here's what my code looks like:

customer = Stripe::Customer.create(
  :email => customerEmail,
  :plan => customerPlanId,
  :source => charge[:source],
  :description => customerName
)

I'm doing this in the stripe sandbox. I can clearly see the card stored in the source object within the charge, however stripe throws the error:

`handle_api_error': No such token: card_19NXFMKm5fnTITnyYdk6shyj (Stripe::InvalidRequestError)

Thanks in advance!

Ywain Ywain · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-06T01:41:55

When you create a customer with the source parameter, it should be a token ID ("tok_..."), not a card ID.

See this StackOverflow answer for more information: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34416413/5307473

Stripe Payments - Add existing card to customer

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