Stripe : single payment (not subscriptions)

@andy cashier supports both subscriptions and one time payments, here's the documentation: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/billing#single-charges

@MartelliEnrico Thanks!

Totally missed that in the documentation ...

hmmm ... "If you would like to make a "one off" charge against a subscribed customer's credit card, you may use the charge method:"

Maybe this not the solution I was looking for. I need to be able to just charge a customer like you would if using Paypal. I don't want to have it as a subscription.

@andy

They don't have to be subscribed user, just be a stripe customer.

 $customer = Auth::user()->subscription()->createStripeCustomer($request->stripe_token, [
            'email' => Auth::user()->email
        ]);

        Auth::user()->setStripeId($customer->id);
        Auth::user()->save();

        Auth::user()->charge(5000, ['currency' => 'cad', 'description' => 'A charge for something']);

I've tested this and it works. Hope that helps.

I think this misses OP's point though: Stripe can and does handle simple one off payments without the customer needing a subscription, and without requiring them to be logged in to any site. But there don't seem to be many tutorials on how to do this in Laravel 5.

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

"If you would like to make a "one off" charge AGAINST a SUBSCRIBED customer's credit card, you may use the charge method on a billable model instance."

check this series out it covers one time payment without cashier https://laracasts.com/series/billing-with-stripe

Modified @StormShadow's code, this is working for me:

$customer = $user->createAsStripeCustomer($stripeToken, [
    'email' => $user->email
]);

$update = $user->subscriptions()->create([
    'user_id' => $user->id,
    'name' => $plan->title,
    'stripe_id' => $customer->id,
    'stripe_plan' => $plan->id,
    'quantity' => 1,
    'created_at' => Carbon::now(),
    'updated_at' => Carbon::now()
]);

$user->charge($total_price, ['currency' => 'usd', 'description' => 'Charge for Extended (3 yr.) plan.']);

https://stripe.com/docs/stripe.js#createToken seems to only need creditcard details to create a stripe token

https://stripe.com/docs/api/php#create_charge https://stripe.com/docs/charges no stripe customers?

not tested yet, no stripe experience either, but going to try and implement this soon

@firouziam have you used the new checkout https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/server ?

if so, does this still require the php sdk https://github.com/stripe/stripe-php ?