Auto Charge on Recurring Invoices

jordan2908

is there a way to set the stripe transaction to auto charge for recurring invoices. I was looking at the API for stripe and it seems possible.

It seems that right now the only stripe functions are in the guest checkout php file?

Any one else look into this?

Bigbug

jordan2908 Hey! glad you brought that up.. i was also checking on this, and it seems possible with the stripe API.

It'll be a great thing to automate this part!

🙏

jordan2908

https://docs.stripe.com/terminal/features/saving-cards/overview

https://docs.stripe.com/api/customers/object

seems this would involve it to send some more information and create a customer on stripe and/or be mapped to a customer and then charge the customer.

I believe once the card is mapped to a customer on the stripe side you can click charge card from the stripe interface which would be a start. This is a little over my head tho

wrongecho

Hey,

This has come up before at least once, but isn't a priority at the moment for me.

If you're familiar with PHP, please feel free to contribute.

jordan2908

I create a script that creates customer from contact name and email and reports back a stripe customer ID but I am still working on configuring it into itflow.

I figured this would be the first step to creating auto charging recurring invoices or "card on file"

scsiwuzzy56/stripe-api-scripts (dont judge)

Bigbug

jordan2908 The link seems to be broken, there is no such a repository "strip-api-scripts" there..

jordan2908

Bigbug sorry try now, don't get excited, it's nothing much and doesn't pull from the database. I added a check box for save card to customer with a credit card form but it wasn't working correctly yet.

This also might not be the secure way to do it.

wrongecho

I started to take a look at this - it's a fair amount of work if you don't go with a Stripe-hosted page (the current checkout page we have is an embed into ITFlow rather than Stripe hosted, so would make sense to keep this the same - it just looks & feels better).

Looks like we first need to create ITFlow Clients in Stripe as Customers (as your script does @jordan2908) and then we can use the Setup Intents API to save cards details. Once both of these are done, then we can look into a way to allow a client to use their saved card / auto-charge invoices against it. We'd also need a way to track consent for cards to be saved/auto-charged.

It's not exactly a short process. These docs just cover saving a payment method: https://docs.stripe.com/payments/save-and-reuse?platform=web&ui=elements, I'm sure there's additional docs for actually using that method (both in a user-controlled and automated way).

Would be pretty cool to add though!

Bigbug

Hi
it would be greatly appreciated if you can add a auto-pay feature

could be a checkbox to turn on and as you tick the checkbox a few more fields will pop up which would be
Account
Payment method
and maybe if there is a way to query stripe for the transaction id (maybe by client email)

♥

(the best thing would be that it should be integrated fully)

Bigbug

wrongecho

Bigbug (the best thing would be that it should be integrated fully)

Yea…

But.. Meanwhile this solution would be a big help

wrongecho

I think this has come up before?: https://forum.itflow.org/d/771-auto-charge-on-recurring-invoices/

It's a fair amount of work.

wrongecho

@Bigbug Merged into the other thread as it's essentially the same request. I can appreciate it would be useful to have, but I'd be looking to add basic support for other suppliers before we add anything more for Stripe.