Stripe PHP subscription error - customer has no attached payment source

Question

I'm using Stripe Checkout on the frontend and collecting user's card details then using Stripe's PHP library on the backend to subscribe the user to a pre-defined Stripe plan. I get the error

(1/1) InvalidRequest This customer has no attached payment source

and checking the Stripe Dashboard shows the user (Stripe customer) does not have any card details associated even though I pass the token through to the subscription call as per docs etc.

Front end code (Laravel template):

<form action="{{url('subscribe')}}" method="POST" id="stripeform1" class="nodisplay">
{!! csrf_field() !!}
<input type="hidden" name="plan" value="individual">
    <script
        src="https://checkout.stripe.com/checkout.js" class="stripe-button"
        data-key="my_stripe_test_key"
        data-image="https://myapp.co/public/images/stripeicon.png"
        data-name="MyApp"
        data-zip-code="true"
        data-locale="auto"
        data-email="testemail@test.com"
        data-description="Subscription for Individual Plan"
        data-currency="gbp"
        data-amount="999"
        data-label="Subscribe!">
    </script>
</form>

and back end code:

\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey(env('STRIPE_SECRET'));

// Create customer that we can then create a subscription or one-off charges for:
$customer = \Stripe\Customer::create(['email' => $request->input['stripeEmail'], 'source'  => $request->input['stripeToken']]);

// Attach user (as Stripe customer) to existing subscription plan defined in Stripe:
if($request->input('plan') == 'individual') $planID = env('STRIPE_INDIVIDUAL_PLAN_ID');
else if($request->input('plan') == 'business') $planID = env('STRIPE_BUSINESS_PLAN_ID');
$subscription = \Stripe\Subscription::create(['customer' => $customer->id, 'items' => [['plan' => $planID]]]);

Not sure where I am going wrong. Thanks for any suggestions.

chohan chohan · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-29T21:27:29

You have to use the below code to make successful subscription, while creating subscriptions

$subscription = \Stripe\Subscription::create(['customer' => $customer->id,"trial_end" => null, 'items' => [['plan' => $planID]]]);

You have skip trial_end parameter in your request.

Stripe PHP subscription error - customer has no attached payment source

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