We use Stripe for our checkout and have a free trial enabled. So when a user comes to the site to enable the free trial they just enter their email in the checkout.
What I would like is to tie the start of the free trial with creating an account on my site. Since I get the user's email with account creation I would like to create the free trial programmatically and remove that step. Is that possible?
Here is my code to create the checkout session.
def create_checkout_session(request, app_type):
subscription_plan_duration = SubscriptionPlanDuration.objects.filter().first()
user_subscription = UserSubscription.objects.create(
subscription_plan_duration_id = subscription_plan_duration.id,
user_id = request.user.id,
app_type = app_type,
is_active = False #True - change for 3.
)
discount_coupon = DiscountCoupon.objects.filter(subscription_plan_duration_id = subscription_plan_duration.id).first()
checkout_session = stripe.checkout.Session.create(
line_items=[
{
'price': subscription_plan_duration.price_id,
'quantity': 1,
},
],
metadata={
"user_subscription_id": user_subscription.id
},
mode="subscription",
# discounts=[{
# 'coupon': discount_coupon.coupon_id,
# }],
subscription_data={
"trial_period_days": 30,
"trial_settings": {
"end_behavior": {
"missing_payment_method": "cancel"
}
}
},
payment_method_collection="if_required",
allow_promotion_codes=True,
success_url=settings.APP_END_POINT + '/stripe/success',
cancel_url=settings.APP_END_POINT + '/stripe/cancel-subscription/' + app_type
)
return redirect(checkout_session.url)
If you don't want the customer to have to go through the Checkout Session, you can create a Subscription via the API instead : https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/create
Note though that you need to have a Customer already created as it's a required field in https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-customer