Trouble setting up a subscription with Laravel 5.8 / Cashier / Stripe

Question

I followed this tutorial step by step: https://appdividend.com/2018/12/05/laravel-stripe-payment-gateway-integration-tutorial-with-example/

However, when I go to tes

Answer 1

Maybe im late but you dont always need to setup the payment intent. i was able to do the following

$user = new User();
$user->fill($payload);

$user->createAsStripeCustomer([
  'name' => $user->fullname,
]);

$user->updateDefaultPaymentMethod($data->stripeToken);

$user->newSubscription(env('STRIPE_SUBSCRIPTION_NAME'), env('STRIPE_PLAN_ID'))
    ->create(null, [
      'name' => $this->fullname,
      'email' => $this->email,
    ]) // may not be required as we already do this above;

stripeToken is the token returned when using stripe.createPaymentMethod. One thing of note is that i no longer have to specify a payment method when creating a subscription. Also in my case i had to collect the credit card during user registration. I only start the subscription when the user verifies their email.

The steps are

1. Create User
2. Create Stripe User
3. Create payment method from payment_token returned from stripe elements for user
4. Start subscription

I really dislike the stripe docs. Too many breaking changes and i feel its incomplete as they are more than one way to do things that arent being documented

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