README.md

Pausing Subscriptions - Office Hours 2020-04-03

Walk through the basics of Subscription pausing using Ruby and Sinatra.

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Getting Started

Follow these instructions to spin-up a copy of this demo project up on your local machine for development and testing purposes. This is meant to be a guide to show you how to go about pausing Subscriptions.

Prerequisites

• Ruby
• Stripe CLI
• A Stripe account
• Stripe API Keys

Step by step

1. Configure your keys

Copy the example .env file and update those values with your Stripe keys.

cp .env.example server/.env

Then, be sure to update the publishable key (pk_xxx) in client/manual.html.

2. Start the server

ruby server.rb

3. Run the demo

Create a customer with Stripe CLI:

stripe customers create \
  --description="Pausing Test Customer" \
  -d payment_method=pm_card_visa \
  -d invoice_settings[default_payment_method]=pm_card_visa

Create a subscription with Stripe CLI with the billing_cycle_anchor set to a few min from now:

stripe subscriptions create \
  --customer={ID_FROM_PREV} \
  -d "items[0][plan]"=plan_xxx \
  -d billing_cycle_anchor={UNIX_TIMESTAMP_60_SECONDS_FROM_NOW}

Pause a Subscription and review in your Stripe dashboard.

More Resources

• COVID-19 Stripe Resources
• Stripe Developers YouTube Channel
• Stripe YouTube Channel

Demo