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cecileRx
cecileRx

Reputation: 135

Stripe retrieve customer Rails5

I want Stripe to check if the customer already exists and if yes associate it to the checkout session.

    class OrdersController < ApplicationController

        @session = Stripe::Checkout::Session.create(
          payment_method_types: ['card'],
    
          shipping_address_collection: {
            allowed_countries: ['GB']
          },
          customer_email: current_user.email,
    
          line_items: line_items_order,
    
          success_url: new_order_message_url(@order),
          cancel_url: order_url(@order)
        )
    
        if @user.stripe_id != nil
           Stripe::Customer.retrieve(@user.stripe_id)
           @session.customer = customer.id
           @session.customer_email =customer.email
    
        else
    
        customer = Stripe::Customer.create({
          email: current_user.email,
          name: current_user.username,
          metadata: {
          },
        })
    
         @user.stripe_id = customer.id
         @user.save
    
      end


   @order.checkout_session_id = @session.id
   @order.save
  end

I checked with byebug and saw that Stripe::Customer.retrieve(@user.stripe_id) is working, Stripe API is able to find te right customer, but still create a new customer for each checkout session. I have read the documentation about the sessions objetc and found that about the customer attribute:

customer attribute: The ID of the customer for this Session. For Checkout Sessions in payment or subscription mode, Checkout will create a new customer object based on information provided during the payment flow unless an existing customer was provided when the Session was created.

What do I miss here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 210

Answers (1)

Daniel Sindrestean
Daniel Sindrestean

Reputation: 1193

The issue is that you are calling Stripe::Checkout::Session.create without passing in the customer. As mentioned in the doc for customer, it should be passed when creating the session if you want to use an existing customer

customer string EXPANDABLE

The ID of the customer for this Session. For Checkout Sessions in payment or subscription mode, Checkout will create a new customer object based on information provided during the payment flow unless an existing customer was provided when the Session was created.

So just make sure you have the customer in the create method

@session = Stripe::Checkout::Session.create(
  customer: customer.id
  ...
)

Upvotes: 1

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