Subscriptions with Stripe Discussion
Fritz Rodriguez Jr.
Hey Chris! Not sure if this is just me, but there seems a problem downloading the video's.
Hmm, I tried downloading too and it keeps cutting short. It should be almost 600MB. Not sure what's wrong. Does the video fully load for you?
Rails Duck
Thanks! I actually wanted a course to be released of Stripe Payment Processing since I just lost my OM account. This definitely helps me out!
I have 4 months left on GoRails and I'm excited to learn as much as possible on Stripe payment processing. I'm starting this video today and I'm really happy that you introduced this course OneMonth!
Is it possible to put the normal stripe js popup instead of a custom form????
If so, please make another screencast on that
You can swap a lot of the JS out with the Stripe Checkout button. The same process works there. You'd keep the token callback and server-side code. It's pretty much the same minus the form and the JS listener for submit. :)
Ron Huppert
So i have been following along with this screencast and i got it all to work :) I even added a select box so could choose what plan i wanted to use. However i would like to have multiple boxes each for a certain plan. What would you recommend.. checkboxes in the form of buttons.. or something else? I don't think a dropdown select box is very selling.. I would like to have 3 or 4 boxes next to each other with different length of the subscription like 1 months and 3 months and so on..
My suggestion would be to make a pricing page that have links to the checkout page and you put a "plan" in the URL with the ID of the plan to sign them up with. That way you can store the plan_id in a hidden field in the form nicely.
Check boxes make for great easy additions and you can hide/show them with some javascript based upon the plan that's selected.
Oh damn, learning a lot from here. Like the devise's user_return_to method. Damn nifty!
How would I need to modify the SubscriptionsController to allow for multiple Plans (monthly, every 3 months, yearly, etc.). Let's suppose I have a Plans model and table where I store the info about my plans. Your current subscriptions controller hard codes in the plan: "monthly" input. How would that change?
Great question and I meant to make a follow up episode talking about that. I will still do that, but here's the gist:
1. You'll need a pricing page that lists the plans. When you click on the link to subscribe, you'll pass the plan ID in the URL to the checkout page.
2. The checkout page will load up the plan based on the ID to verify it exists and is allowed (makes it easy for changing things over time).
3. You'll pass the plan ID as a hidden field during checkout
4. SubscriptionsController's create action will lookup the plan again to verify it and then submits the stripe ID instead of the hardcoded "monthly" value
5. After signing up, you'll link the user to the plan as well so you can use it for your authorization and functionality of your site that they paid for access to.
That should do the trick! I'll try and record a screencast on this very soon as a follow up.
Hi, Chris
I'm getting this error. I looked around online but still hitting a wall. Thoughts? Thanks :)
Error
Are you sure that params[:stripeToken] is set to the value from the JS? Check your params?
I'm also facing this issue, apparently it seems when we come to 'checkout' page from any other page (e.g. pricing) the JS in checkout is not loaded correctly due to which the token is not being created. If you refresh the checkout page and then submit the form it should work fine. Probably the turbolink issue.
Love this episode Chris...thanks!
One question, why did you put the `current_user_subscribed` method in the ApplicationController and not in say ApplicationHelper? That feels like something that the views will use, which is what the helpers are for, no?
Just curious to hear the logic.
Oh good question. Subtle thing here, but very important. The reason it's in the controller is because you're probably going to use the same logic to do authorization in the controller actions. You can easily expose the method as a helper using helper_method for the views, so this allows you to write it in one place and use it in both the controller and the views.
Chris, my subscription.coffee file is never getting called. Therefore, I'm getting the following error even when I comment out the #$form.get(0)submit() as you instruct around 24:31 in the video. Is this due to turbo-links? Any help on this would be much appreciated.
You might double check that that file is getting required in your application.js. Sometimes that can be all that's missing. If it is, then add some print statements to see if your code is actually running, might be just something simple there.
anybody get this error: "Uncaught SecurityError: Blocked a frame with origin "https://js.stripe.com" from accessing a frame with origin "http://localhost:3000". The frame requesting access has a protocol of "https", the frame being accessed has a protocol of "http". Protocols must match." I'm stumped.
Likely some configuration issue. I'm not entirely sure what causes that, but it's definitely fine to run on localhost. Probably like this guy where you've got a mistake somewhere causing their JS to run incorrectly: http://stackoverflow.com/a/...
Hi guys - i'm receiving a curios intermittent error.
When I go to /subscription/new I get the following screen:-
https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
Please note the error, "Could not find payment information".
I'm not submitting the form, but the error is appended.
I then complete the form and select submit and get the following error:-
https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
I suppose this is to be anticipated.
I then check my stripe test account and I have an error here:-
https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
Any root cause analysis would be really appreciated.
Did you fix this? I'm getting the same problem.
Nice tutorial. Using this payment form, if form is submitted multiple times, multiple subscriptions occur for a single customer. Will stripe charge customer for all such subscriptions or only based on last one?
You can fail early server side if there's a subscription ID on the user so you can hopefully avoid double charging them. I believe stripe does allow you to have multiple subscriptions per user, so you may not want to rely on that.
I am using Stripe in development just fine, but when I push up to production on AWS, the logs are telling me "Stripe::AuthenticationError (No API key provided. Set your API key using "Stripe.api_key = <api-key>". " I am using "Stripe.api_key = ENV['STRIPE_SECRET']" which is pulling from the .env file, which is of course in my .gitignore file. So it's not pushing up to AWS as intended. How do I get Stipe production ready, as least in terms of the api key? I am using "ENV['STRIPE_PUBLIC']" in the meta tag just like the video. I'm not getting an AWS error here, which confuses me as it getting the key from .env as well. Any help would be appreciated!
Hey James, are you using Figaro for the .env file?
Hope everyone is ok.
I have question about my rails app.
I get this error in heroku
Stripe::AuthenticationError (No API key provided. Set your API key using "Stripe.api_key = <api-key>". You can generate API keys from the Stripe web interface. See https://stripe.com/api for details, or email support@stripe.com if you have any questions.):
yet all is ok in localhost which I use c9.io account.
Does anyone has any idea what is going on?
if more info is needed, I gladly provid
thank you
Hey! Sounds like you're just missing your keys in the production environment. Make sure you put your live Stripe keys in your secrets.yml file and that should fix that problem for ya!
Hope all is fine.
I recieve this error
ExecJS::RuntimeError in Listings#index
I did the following
1. ExecJS::RuntimeError in Listings#indexs did not work
2. install gmes, exechs and therubyracer did not work.
3. try to find runtimes.rb and could not
4. I get rid of //= require_tree . error goes away but after awhile it comes back
Could anyone help me to fix it?
I am learning so much from this Episode! One thing, after putting my secret/public keys in my environments/development.rb as recommended at 29:34ish, I get an uninitialized constant ActionView::CompiledTemplates::STRIPE_PUBLIC error trying to access the subscriptions#new page. Is this a common problem? It seems like I must be doing something simple wrong...
Hey Liz! :D
I would say, try restarting your Rails app. If you make a change in any of your config files, you generally have to restart your Rails server so it can get the new changes. The rest of the code auto-reloads when you make a change but this stuff does not.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c... Just so everyone is aware.. The card details that Stripe returns in the form around 47:22 have been changed by stripe they are now:
exp_month
exp_year
brand
Ive added a photo with the updated values incase anyone hits a snag retrieving data.
Happy Floundering :)
Charles Williams
I am writing this comment because of something that took me a long time to figure out that might save people a lot of frustration if they run into same issue. My app has a custom made login system and doesn't use devise, but everything else was the same as this tutorial and I kept getting an error "the customer has no attached payment source. I figured out the javascript was not loading properly unless I reloaded the page. Using Rails 5 and Turbolinks 5 in my subscription.js.coffee file instead of putting jquery -> I put $(document).on "turbolinks:load", -> and it made the form submit and load the coffeescript properly. It is a known issue that turbolinks doesn't always play well with javascript and there are many ways to get around this. I am an ametuer at best at rails/javascript so definitely do your own research as well.
Yep, this is because Turbolinks 5 works differently than the previous one where you could use jquery.turbolinks to enable all your standard jQuery -> code to work as expected. Thanks for sharing the reminder with everyone!
Hi, thanks for this tutorial. I am reading that now stripe has deprecated the custom form method and is moving to the elements UI method (https://github.com/mage2pro.... Following the elements ui method I managed to get the payments to go through by copying in the examples on the stripe site and using the same controller format as you used. However, I'm having problems retrieving the card info in the way you did that was previously different with the custom form method. Any idea how to do that with the element ui method they are moving to? Thanks
This is my subscribe new view, I kept the javascript in the view.
<h1>Subscribe!</h1>
<%= form_tag subscription_path, id: "payment-form" do%>
<form action="/subscription" method="post" id="payment-form">
<div class="form-row">
<label for="card-element">
Credit or debit card
</label>
<div id="card-element">
</div>
<div id="card-errors" role="alert"></div>
</div>
<button>Submit Payment</button>
</form>
<% end %>
<script>
//var stripe = Stripe('#############');
var stripe = Stripe($("meta[name='stripe-key']").attr("content"));
var elements = stripe.elements();
// Custom styling can be passed to options when creating an Element.
var style = {
base: {
// Add your base input styles here. For example:
fontSize: '16px',
lineHeight: '24px'
}
};
// Create an instance of the card Element
var card = elements.create('card', {style: style});
// Add an instance of the card Element into the `card-element` <div>
card.mount('#card-element');
card.addEventListener('change', function(event) {
var displayError = document.getElementById('card-errors');
if (event.error) {
displayError.textContent = event.error.message;
} else {
displayError.textContent = '';
}
});
// Create a token or display an error when the form is submitted.
var form = document.getElementById('payment-form');
form.addEventListener('submit', function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
stripe.createToken(card).then(function(result) {
if (result.error) {
// Inform the user if there was an error
var errorElement = document.getElementById('card-errors');
errorElement.textContent = result.error.message;
} else {
// Send the token to your server
stripeTokenHandler(result.token);
}
});
});
function stripeTokenHandler(token) {
// Insert the token ID into the form so it gets submitted to the server
var form = document.getElementById('payment-form');
var hiddenInput = document.createElement('input');
hiddenInput.setAttribute('type', 'hidden');
hiddenInput.setAttribute('name', 'stripeToken');
hiddenInput.setAttribute('value', token.id);
form.appendChild(hiddenInput);
form.submit();
}
</script>
I think the way to do it is with the new elements method (as opposed to the customer form method) is to use the customer id to get the "default source" object to retrieve the card. And then from there to retrieve everything from the card object that's returned but I'm just not sure about the syntax.
For some reason my Stripe data is not being saved to my user? Below is screenshots.
I tried to permit the stripe attributes from my user table but no luck. When I go into my stripe dashboard all the data from the user is there but the data is not saved to database.
Also when I ran the code below. When the user paid for their subscription and redirects me. For some reason I still get the results of "My BAD". I do not have any attr_accessor anywhere as well.
<% if current_user_subscribed? %>
OUR SECRET VIDEO
<% else %>
MY BAD
<% end %>
subscriptions_controller.rb
class SubscriptionsController < ApplicationController
before_action :authenticate_user!, except: [:new]
before_action :redirect_to_signup, only: [:new]
def show
end
def new
end
def create
Stripe.api_key = Rails.application.secrets.stripe_secret_key
token = params[:stripeToken]
customer = if current_user.stripe_id?
Stripe::Customer.retrieve(current_user.stripe_id)
else
Stripe::Customer.create(email: current_user.email, :source => "tok_amex")
end
subscription = customer.subscriptions.create(
plan: "plan_DgFuhaPFeIbeT3"
)
current_user.update(
card_last4: params[:card_last4],
card_exp_month: params[:card_exp_month],
card_exp_year: params[:card_exp_year],
card_type: params[:card_brand]
)
redirect_to root_path, notice: "You already a premium member!"
end
def destroy
end
private
def redirect_to_signup
if !user_signed_in?
session["user_return_to"] = new_subscription_path
redirect_to new_user_registration_path
end
end
end
RAILS CONSOLE
User Load (0.5ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" ORDER BY "users"."id" DESC LIMIT $1 [["LIMIT", 1]]
=> #<User id: 7, email: "ddd@gmail.com", first_name: nil, last_name: nil, country: nil, state: nil, city: nil, ph
one: nil, created_at: "2018-09-27 20:20:49", updated_at: "2018-09-27 20:20:49", subscribed: nil, stripe_id: nil, s
tripe_subscription_id: nil, card_last4: nil, card_exp_month: nil, card_exp_year: nil, card_type: nil>
2.4.1 :002 >
Hey there!
I'm currently asking myself, how you would implement a plan dynamically? You would need to create a Plan with plan = Stripe::Plan.create(plan: project.name) and so on. Afterwards you would call subscriptions on the plan, like plan.subscriptions.create ?
It would be nice to get more detailed information.
Pretty much! You would create the plan in stripe (it requires it to be attached to a product these days). Once you had the Stripe plan ID, you can use that to create a subscription:
customer.subscriptions.create(items: [{ plan: 'plan-id' }])
or
Stripe::Subscription.create({
customer: 'customer-id',
items: [{ plan: 'plan-id' }],
})
Hello,
Would it be possible to add a record to the CHARGE DB for the initial subscription via the subscriptions controller?
Hi Chris,
I'm sorry if I missed this but with a monthly subscription, will Stripe send off an email notifying the customer that a payment is due, or is it up to us to set that up?
Thanks!
Jim
That's up to you I'm pretty sure. They do allow you to configure their emails for various things like failed payments though. You can find all those email options in the Settings tab on Stripe.
Is this episode still up to date with how stripe works? It doesn't seem the same as the docs:
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/fixed-price
I've turned it into a separate course since Stripe changes so much and it's hard to maintain these videos. https://courses.gorails.com/payments-with-rails-master-class
Hi Chris,
Just joined GoRails to access the pro videos! Would it be possible to update the Stripe courses with the latest Stripe API? I followed the video from 2015 but it doesn’t seem to work. I’m trying to do something similar: user subscribes to plan (multiple plans to choose from) and should be able to cancel their plan or modify it. Would really love to see such an episode.
Thanks!
HAS anyone been able to get STRIPE EMBEDDED PAYMENTS working?
I followed Collin's course to the T, but when I get to the point where the stripe form is supposed to be inserted into my DIV on the Application.html.erb, I get nothing.
my payment intent is being successfully sent to stripe and shows as OK on their log.
It would be nice to find someone I could ping to compare notes with.
Thanks!! JonRoock@att.net