Stripe PHP Create customer and add subscription

Question

The old way of doing this was as follows

$customer = \Stripe\Customer::create(array(
    "description" => $domain,
    "email" => $email,
    "source" => $token,
    "metadata" => array(
        "name" => $name,
        "phone" => $phone
    ),
));

$cus = $customer->id;

\Stripe\Subscription::create(array(
    "customer" => $cus,
    "plan" => "1",
));

But now I do not see the "PLAN" option on the subscription create. Here is what I have so far...

$customer = $stripe->customers->create([
  'description' => 'Description text here nomadweb.design',
  'name' => 'Sammy Malones',
  'email' => '[email protected]',
  'phone' => '5124592222'
]);

$cus = $customer->id;

$stripe->subscriptions->create([
    'customer' => $cus,
    'plan' => '1'
]);

In the API Docs is says that it's required to use the items parameter. My question is how to I add a subscription to a customer with the newer api?

This is their code but I don't understand

$stripe->subscriptions->create([
  'customer' => 'cus_J34i3JonNQQXdO',
  'items' => [
    ['price' => 'price_0IQyZLH7HxDXZRHqJfpwwqBB'],
  ],
]);

https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create

In my stripe dashboard I have a product created which is a monthly subscription, it has an ID like prod_BlMuxdEQJSxfKJ So I'm guessing I need to pass that ID in somehow as an item?

Answer 1

I would encourage you to read about Prices, the successor to Plans, but you can also provide an existing Plan like plan_123 to the subscription creation request, and it will be converted to a Price for you:

$stripe->subscriptions->create([
  'customer' => 'cus_123',
  'items' => [
    ['price' => 'plan_123'],
  ],
]);

You can't provide a Product here directly, as Products are not directly tied to any amount or interval. You need to create Prices for those Products, either using the API or your Dashboard.

When creating a subscription, you can optionally define the recurring pricing ad-hoc, using price_data (API doc) and referencing the Product to be used:

$subscription = $stripe->subscriptions->create([
  'customer' => 'cus_123',
  'items' => [[
    'price_data' => [
      'unit_amount' => 5000,
      'currency' => 'usd',
      'product' => 'prod_456',
      'recurring' => [
        'interval' => 'month',
      ],
    ],
  ]],
]);

Answer 2

Thank you to Nolan, it looks like you need to grab the product pricing API ID which is provided in the dashboard.

Here is the updated code

$stripe->subscriptions->create([
    'customer' => $cid,
    'items' => [['price' => 'price_0IR0OGH7HxDXZRHq3sIg9biB'],],
]);

Here the price ID is attaching the product which is a subscription to the customer.

Answer 3

if you are using laravel and stripe php sdk with it then you can do it like this below:

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

        // Use an existing Customer ID if this is a returning customer.
        // $customer = \Stripe\Customer::create([
        //     "description" => $domain,
        //     "email" => $email,
        //     "source" => $token,
        //     "metadata" => [
        //         "name" => $name,
        //         "phone" => $phone
        //     ],
        // ]);

        $customer = \Stripe\Customer::create();

        // $customer_id = $customer->id;

        $Subscription = \Stripe\Subscription::create([
            
            'customer' => $customer->id,
            'items' => [[
                'price' => $price_id,
            ]],
            'payment_behavior' => 'default_incomplete',
            'expand' => ['latest_invoice.payment_intent'],
        ]);

        $ephemeralKey = \Stripe\EphemeralKey::create(
            ['customer' => $customer->id],
            ['stripe_version' => '2020-08-27']
        );

        // $paymentIntent = \Stripe\PaymentIntent::create([
        //     'amount' => $amount,
        //     'currency' => $currency,
        //     'customer' => $customer->id
        // ]);
          
        $response = [
            'request' => $data,
            'paymentIntent' => $subscription->latest_invoice->payment_intent->client_secret,
            'ephemeralKey' => $ephemeralKey->secret,
            'customer' => $customer->id,
            'subscriptionId' => $subscription->id,
        ];
          
        return response($response, 200);

And then in your front end you can process the payment with the help of your paymentIntent secret.