Stripe Ruby - find an existing customer by ID and add a plan
So Stripe members say:
Once you have created a customer, you must store their ID in your own database to later refer to when communicating with the strip.
Okay, easy enough. My question is: how can I find a client by ID? UPDATE :
customer = Stripe::Customer.retrieve(id)
When I register a new customer for one of my services, I create a new Stripe Customer
, but if they are an existing customer, I would like to use their existing account and just add the plan. How do I find them and add a new plan? I looked through the docs and ruby ββstone but couldn't figure it out. Please help me? This is the method.
def social_signup
token = params[:stripe_token]
if current_vendor.stripe_id == nil
customer = Stripe::Customer.create(
:card => token,
:plan => 'social',
:email => current_vendor.email
)
current_vendor.update_attributes(stripe_id: customer.id)
else
customer = Stripe::Customer.retrieve(current_vendor.stripe_id)
# bill the customer existing account for the added subscription
end
redirect_to :somewhere
end
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Find a client:
customer = Stripe::Customer.retrieve(current_vendor.stripe_id) # pass in the persisted ID
Create a new plan subscription:
customer.subscriptions.create(plan: "social")
The documents are quite thorough, I just had to break through and find specifics. By the way, adding multiple subscribers for one client was a feature that Stripe added in February this year .
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