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Stripe Level 2: Subscriptions, Discounts, Webhooks, oh my!

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Overview

After Part 1 of the tutorial, you are rocking with Stripe: Charges, Customer, Invoices and error-handling are old news.

Now it's time to take our sheep-shearing startup to the next level: by offering a monthly subscription service. Woh.

  • Learn to create and charge subscriptions!
  • Store the card type and last 4 to show your user
  • Update a customer's credit card
  • Handle cancellations... and reactivations!
  • Use web-hooks to handle renewal payments, cancellation, payment failures
  • Upgrading/Downgrading a subscription correctly with prorations
  • Offer Coupons and even free subscriptions to awesome people!
  • Giving your user's high-quality invoices

Oh, the possibilities are endless: create a subscription service that treats your customers right.

Syllabus

  • Create those Subscription Plans
  • Add the Subscription to your Cart
  • Creating the Subscription in Stripe
  • Give the User a Subscription (in our Database)
  • Data: Card Last 4 Digits
  • So, When is my Next Invoice?
  • Canceling a Subscription
  • Tracking Cancelations in our Database
  • Reactivate/Un-cancel my Subscription!
  • Cancelation Edge-Case Bugs
  • The Update Card Form!
  • Saving the Updated Card Details
  • Handling Card Update Fails
  • Stripe Events & Webhooks
  • Webhook Endpoint Setup
  • Webhook: Subscription Canceled
  • Testing Webhooks
  • Testing Part 2: Faking the Event Lookup
  • Live Webhook Testing with Ngrok
  • Webhook: Email User on Subscription Renewal
  • Webhook: Payment Failed!
  • Webhooks: Preventing Replay Attacks
  • Upgrading Subscription Plans: The UI
  • So, how much would that Upgrade Cost?
  • Upgrade: Processing the Upcoming Invoice
  • Execute the Plan Upgrade
  • Failing Awesomely When Payments Fail
  • Changing your Plan from Monthly to Yearly
  • Monthly to Yearly: The Billing Period Change
  • Coupons! Adding the Form
  • Validate that Coupon in Stripe!
  • Applying a Coupon at Checkout
  • Free (Ice Cream) Checkout!
  • Sweet Invoices
  • Displaying All the Invoice Details

Taught by

Ryan Weaver and Leanna Pelham

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