Laravel Cashier creating customer without subscription

Have you tried not passing anything to subscription() it allows for null.

$user->subscription()->create($request->input('stripeToken'));

not tested. test in dev environment first.

but yeah, you could just set the id.

$user->setStripeId($request->input('stripeToken'));

As it utilizes subscriptions to charge at intervals. Changing the logic to your business logic should be do able. Set the token when a user adds a card, how ever is done in your app. I probably would set a boolean value that a user has a card available. Then when needed charge the user.

Most of it would be how you have stripe set up on that end.

refer to

\vendor\laravel\cashier\src\Laravel\Cashier\Billable.php

and

\vendor\laravel\cashier\src\Laravel\Cashier\StripeGateway.php

for available methods.

In the end, I created a plan in stripe with a value of $0.00 and called it 'customer'.

I then did

$user->subscription('customer')->create(\Request::input('response_id_from_strips_js'));

But won't that generate an invoice and when you show invoices they will wonder what it is? I suppose you could write logic to hide it.

My solution to this was to add a method to my Billable class (aka: App\User)

public function setBillingCard($stripeToken) {

    if ($this->stripeIsActive()) {
        return $this->updateCard($stripeToken);
    }

    $stripeGateway = $this->subscription();

    $customer = $stripeGateway->createStripeCustomer($stripeToken, [
        'email' => $this->email
    ]);
    return $stripeGateway->updateLocalStripeData($customer);

}

One thing to note, because the database field stripe_active will be set to true, the $user->subscribed() method will always return true. I decided to write another method to check against the $user->stripe_subscription along with $user->onGracePeriod().

If you have no intentions on allowing subscriptions then you have no need for Cashier and you can just use the Stripe php library for everything you need. Create the customer and store the card. Then when they buy something just charge the customer, not the card.

https://support.stripe.com/questions/can-i-save-a-card-and-charge-it-later

I had some success adding a card without a subscription by running this on Laravel 5:

//pass the user object to the gateway; it must implement BillableContract
$gateway = new \Laravel\Cashier\StripeGateway($user);
//manually create a new Customer instance with Stripe
$customer = $gateway->createStripeCustomer($request->get('stripe_token'));
//update the model's info
$gateway->updateLocalStripeData($customer);

@Kryptonit3 we are just looping through the invoices and hiding those where amount == 0.

I had to manually add the card if there was no stripe ID found in the database.

Here is the stripe form with no payment charged.

<script
    src="https://checkout.stripe.com/checkout.js" class="stripe-button"
    data-key="{{ env('STRIPE_KEY')}}"
    data-bitcoin="true"
    data-name="Company Name."
    data-description="Service Name"
    data-image="{{ asset('images/brand/logo.svg')}}"
    data-locale="auto"
    data-currency="cad">
</script>

If the user has a paid subscription the stripe ID should already be there.

Else the stripe ID is added to the user database with the last 4 digits and the card brand.

public function payment_complete(Request $request) {
    $this->validate( $request, [ 'stripeToken' => 'required'] );

    $user = Auth::user();
    $payment_ammount = '1000';

    if ($user->hasStripeId()) {
         $user->charge($payment_ammount);
    } else {

         $user->createAsStripeCustomer($request->stripeToken);
         $user->charge($payment_ammount);
   }
}