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Creating Customers

Explore how to create customers using the Stripe library in Laravel. Understand setting API keys, passing customer details, and linking created customers to the Stripe dashboard for payment processing.

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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: ...