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Purchasing a Subscription

The workflow for purchasing a subscription is similar to purchasing an individual item, but there are also differences. On the client page, the user selects a subscription plan and enters his or her credit card information. As before, our application contacts Stripe from the client browser before the form is submitted and we receive a token. Also as before, we take that token and send it back to our server when the credit card form is finished.

From this point on, the server-side logic for a subscription purchase differs. Instead of sending a Stripe Purchase object to Stripe, a Customer object is created and associated with the token, which represents the payment method and our user. Now the subscription transaction ...