Stripe: manage a product's quantity

Question

I'm trying to set up a basic Stripe store to sell some t-shirts I silkscreened. I'm using this React setup. Each shirt has a limited quantity, about 12 of each size. I want to make it so when a size is sold out, the "add to cart" button disables.

Is there a way to track quantity with Stripe in this way? I can't seem to find any docs.

Answer 1

You client side app need to be aware of each client that buys a shirt.

There are several ways to achieve this.

• 1. The most ugly one is each x seconds you check all displayed t shirts on the screen quantities. aka: setInterval(checkAvailability, x)
• 2. When the user presses the button (still enabled) you make a call to your api to check if the related t-shirt is still available, if not, display an error message and disable the button (this is what I recommend in your case, because it's the cheapest and the simplest and can be improved in many ways).
• 3. Connect your client side app to your api using socket or server side events and each time a t-shirt is bought, you notify your client side app.