Create a Subscription Add a customer to a paid subscription plan This lesson is available for PRO members or as a single course purchase. Sign-in and choose a plan below. *Enrollment provides full access to this course (and updates) for life. Or Signup for Unlimited PRO Access 📼 Login to Watch 👈 Billing Cancel a Subscription 👉 Webhooks NOTE. I also highly recommend listening to the customer.subscription.created to update Firestore when a new subscription is created and/or customer.subscription.deleted for cancellations. See the full source code for implementation examples. Create a Subscription for Existing Customer file_type_typescript billing.ts import { stripe } from './'; import { db } from './firebase'; import Stripe from 'stripe'; import { getOrCreateCustomer } from './customers'; import { firestore } from 'firebase-admin'; /** * Attaches a payment method to the Stripe customer, * subscribes to a Stripe plan, and saves the plan to Firestore */ export async function createSubscription( userId: string, plan: string, payment_method: string ) { const customer = await getOrCreateCustomer(userId); // Attach the payment method to the customer await stripe.paymentMethods.attach(payment_method, { customer: customer.id }); // Set it as the default payment method await stripe.customers.update(customer.id, { invoice_settings: { default_payment_method: payment_method }, }); const subscription = await stripe.subscriptions.create({ customer: customer.id, items: [{ plan }], expand: ['latest_invoice.payment_intent'], }); const invoice = subscription.latest_invoice as Stripe.Invoice; const payment_intent = invoice.payment_intent as Stripe.PaymentIntent; // Update the user's status if (payment_intent.status === 'succeeded') { await db .collection('users') .doc(userId) .set( { stripeCustomerId: customer.id, activePlans: firestore.FieldValue.arrayUnion(plan), }, { merge: true } ); } return subscription; } API Endpoint file_type_typescript api.ts app.post( '/subscriptions/', runAsync(async (req: Request, res: Response) => { const user = validateUser(req); const { plan, payment_method } = req.body; const subscription = await createSubscription(user.uid, plan, payment_method); res.send(subscription); }) ); Chapters Get Started 📜 1 Resources Source code and resources free 2:23 2 How does Stripe Work? Understand how payment flows work in Stripe as a developer free 4:34 3 API Keys How to safely work with Stripe API keys free 1:42 4 Intro to HTTP and REST How RESTful APIs work and tools that will increase your productivity free 3:04 5 Node Setup Configure Node.js for hot reloading with TypeScript free 4:50 6 Express Build your first API endpoint with Express 3:46 7 React Setup Configure a React project for Stripe Payments 2:47 Stripe Checkout 🛒 8 Stripe Checkout What is Stripe Checkout and should you use it? 1:49 🛒 9 Stripe Checkout on the Server Create a checkout session on the server 3:39 10 Checkout with React Complete a checkout session and redirect to a success or fail page 6:21 3D Secure Payments 💸 11 Payment Intents API Change and save credit card details with Payment Intents API 1:50 💸 12 Create a Payment Intent How to create a Payment Intent on the Server 1:39 🎣 13 Stripe Webhooks How to work with Stripe webhook events in development 4:45 14 React React integration of Payment Intents API & Stripe Elements 4:26 Customer Management & Saved Cards 🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 15 Customers and Saved Cards Manage Customers and Save Cards 1:42 file_type_firebase 16 Firebase Setup Add the Firebase SDKs to your server and frontend app 3:07 17 API Authentication How to decode the Firebase JSON web token with Express 3:35 🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 18 Create a Customer Create a Stripe customer record and attach it to a Firebase user. 2:05 🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 19 Save and List Card Save a card for future payments & list all available cards 2:08 20 React SignIn with Firebase, then save a credit card to the customer account. 3:46 Subscriptions & Billing 🔄 21 Billing Use Stripe billing to manage customers and their payment history 2:01 🔄 22 Create a Subscription Add a customer to a paid subscription plan 3:12 🔄 23 Cancel a Subscription Cancel a subscription 2:21 🔄 24 Recurring Payments Webhooks to handle recurring subscription payments and cancelations 3:02 25 Billing with React Integrate stripe subscription billing in React 5:58 Deployment file_type_docker 26 Docker Dockererize your Node.js API and deploy it to Cloud Run 4:22 file_type_firebase 27 Firebase Cloud Functions Refactor the API for Firebase Cloud Functions 3:25