Stripe docs on laravel.com

Hi,

I know exactly what you are saying. I hate to say that but I did the same mistake and did not read the documentation.

TL;TR Cashier is only for subscriptions, use Stripe SDK instead.

Introduction Laravel Cashier provides an expressive, fluent interface to Stripe's and Braintree's subscription billing services. It handles almost all of the boilerplate subscription billing code you are dreading writing. In addition to basic subscription management, Cashier can handle coupons, swapping subscription, subscription "quantities", cancellation grace periods, and even generate invoice PDFs.

If you're only performing "one-off" charges and do not offer subscriptions, you should not use Cashier. Instead, use the Stripe and Braintree SDKs directly.

Hope it helps!

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https://learn2torials.com/a/integrate-stripe-with-laravel

Cashier is only for subscriptions

Not true. I run a video on demand site that allows renting of videos, which are individual charges.

You can use Stripe to do one-off charges, or charge with an invoice.

@martinbean I did not even touch Cashier due to this description:

If you would like to make a "one off" charge against a subscribed customer's credit card

So my understanding was that first I would have to create some subscription for that customer and only the do a once-off which in my eyes was different to simply create a customer and adding a card to his token.

But I'm probably wrong here.

Yes, you are wrong. There is a charge() method in the billable model, pretty straight forward and easy to use.

Check out my little snippet, it should explain a lot:

try {
    $hasPurchasedBefore = $this->user->stripe_id;

    if (! $hasPurchasedBefore) {
        $customer = $this->user->createAsStripeCustomer(request('stripeToken')['token']['id'], [
            'email' => request('stripeData')['email']
        ]);
    } else {
        $customer = $this->user->asStripeCustomer();

        $this->user->updateCard(request('stripeToken')['token']['id']);
    }
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    return response()->json(['status' => $e->getMessage()], 422);
}

$this->user is simply a user model.

@aurawindsurfing You can make a charge just using a token; the customer doesn’t need to have a subscription.

So you would use Stripe’s JavaScript library to create a token from the user’s card details, and then have a controller make a charge using that token.

@martinbean did not think about it that way! Will give it a shot next time then!