Stripe Payment API – Create Monthly Subscription Plan, Create Customer & Assign Customer to the Plan

June 16, 2017 1:14 pm by ATS Staff

Stripe API request and response code to create monthly subscription plan, create customer and assign customer to the plan to be charged every month, posted by stripe checkout.js

/*
API Installation Links:
https://stripe.com/docs/libraries
https://github.com/stripe/stripe-php

API Usage Links
https://stripe.com/docs/api
https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/tutorial
*/

<?php require_once('vendor/autoload.php'); // check the link on github above on how to get it

// ****** One time charge, posted by stripe checkout.js
// charge card (not relevant for this topic)
\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey("sk_test_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");
$charge_response = \Stripe\Charge::create(array(
				"amount" 	=> 1000,
				"currency" 	=> "usd",
				"source"		=> $token,
				"description" => $email
));
// end of one time charge


// ***** Create monthly subscription plan, customer & 
// ***** assign customer to the plan to be charged every month
// ***** posted by stripe checkout.js

// create plan
\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey("sk_test_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");
$plan = \Stripe\Plan::create(array(
  "name" => "Xyz Monthly Plan",
  "id" => "xyz-monthly",
  "interval" => "month",
  "currency" => "usd",
  "amount" => 1000,
)); 


// create customer
\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey("sk_test_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");
$customer_response = \Stripe\Customer::create(array(
  "email" => $email,
  "source" => $token,
)); 	

// response after customer is created
echo $customer_response;  // response
echo $customer_response->id; // customer id
echo $customer_response->email; // email
echo $customer_response->data->brand; // credit card type
echo $customer_response->data->last4; // credit card last 4 digits
echo $customer_response->data->exp_month; // expiry month
echo $customer_response->data->exp_year;  // expiry year

// assign customer to plan to be charged every month
\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey("sk_test_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");
$assign_response = \Stripe\Subscription::create(array(
  "customer" => $customer_response->id,
  "plan" => "xyz-monthly",
)); 

?>

Please check the comments within the code for better understanding. In case you run into any problems please check the Events and/or Logs on the Stripe dashboard.

Hope it helps!