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Creating Customers

Creating Customers

Learn how to create Stripe customers with Laravel.

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Introduction

A customer in any kind of business plays a pivotal and important role. Apart from creating transactions, Stripe also provides us with a feature to handle and create customers.

In the code snippet below, a customer is created with the help of the Stripe library, which will be linked with the Stripe dashboard.

 1 <?php

 2 namespace App\Http\Controllers;

 3 use Illuminate\Http\Request;

 4 use Stripe;

 5 use Stripe\Customer;

 6

 7 class StripeController extends Controller

 8 {

 9     public function createCustomer()

10     {

11         // Set your Stripe secret key

12         Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey(env('STRIPE_SECRET'));

13

14         // Create a customer

15         $customer = Customer::create([

16             'name' => 'John Doe',

17             'email' => 'john.doe@example.com',

18             'description' => 'Customer for John Doe',

19         ]);

20

21         // We can save the customer ID in our database if needed

22         $customerID = $customer->id;

23

24         return $customer;

25     }

26 }

27 ?>
Stripe customer creation

In the code snippet above: ...