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Laravel Cashier - Update card generates a new stripe user + id

I'm using Laravel's Cashier to handle my subscription plans on Laravel 5.1. Every time I change the user's card with 

$user->updateCard($stripeToken);

a new customer is generated on Stripe, with a new card, new id but same e-mail, when in reality it should just update a customer's card. I've looked in the documentation but didn't find what could be wrong. Could someone help?

Solution

  • The only thing I could see that might be a possible problem is that you might be calling the method on the wrong instance. Maybe you need to do something like this?

    $user->subscription()->updateCard($stripeToken);

    Also, make sure that the $user object you're calling it on is the user you are expecting.

    Here is what my method looks like when the user updates their CC details.

    protected function updateCreditCard($creditCardToken){
    $company = Auth::user()->company;
    // subscription() is a StripeGateway object.
    $company->subscription()->updateCard($creditCardToken);
}