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Stripe Recurring Payments With Stripe API & PHP Part 1

  • Platform: YouTube
  • Channel/Creator: Senaid Bacinovic
  • Duration: 00:27:39
  • Release Date: Dec 3, 2018
  • Video Link: Watch on YouTube

Disclaimer: This is a personal summary and interpretation based on a YouTube video. It is not official material and not endorsed by the original creator. All rights remain with the respective creators.

This document summarizes the key takeaways from the video. I highly recommend watching the full video for visual context and coding demonstrations.

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What This Series Will Cover

The tutorial is a three-part series that goes beyond just creating a recurring subscription. You’ll build a complete mini SaaS flow:

  • Pricing page with multiple packages
  • Stripe Checkout → create customer + subscription
  • Save user account in your database
  • Send login credentials via email
  • Protected dashboard that shows content based on the purchased plan
  • Automatic subscription renewal + access extension
  • Webhook handler to handle renewal/cancellation events

This first part focuses on the pricing page and the initial successful payment that creates the Stripe customer + subscription.

Ask AI: Stripe recurring payments full flow PHP

Building the Pricing Page (HTML + Bootstrap + Stripe Checkout)

Create a clean pricing page with three cards (or more) packages using Bootstrap cards.

Key points from the demo:

  • Use Bootstrap CDN for fast styling
  • Each card has header (price), body (features list), and footer (Stripe Checkout button)
  • Add a little hover scale effect with CSS for polish
  • Use Stripe’s prebuilt Checkout (the simple version that was current in 2018)
<div class="container mt-5">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-4">
            <div class="card text-center">
                <div class="card-header"><h2 class="price">€27<span class="currency">€</span></h2></div>
                <div class="card-body">
                    <h5>Basic Plan</h5>
                    <ul class="list-unstyled">
                        <li>Feature 1</li>
                        <li>Feature 2</li>
                        <!-- ... -->
                    </ul>
                </div>
                <div class="card-footer">
                    <form action="paymentprocess.php?product_id=1" method="POST">
                      <script src="https://checkout.stripe.com/checkout.js" class="stripe-button"
                              data-key="pk_test_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
                              data-amount="2700"
                              data-currency="eur"
                              data-name="Basic Plan"
                              data-description="Monthly subscription"
                              data-locale="auto">
                      </script>
                    </form>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
        <!-- Repeat for other plans (product_id=2,3 with 6700, 9700 cents) -->
    </div>
</div>

Amount is in cents → €27.00 = 2700.
The publishable key is automatically filled when you are logged into your Stripe account and visit the docs.

Ask AI: Stripe Checkout legacy form integration

Create Recurring Pricing Plans in Stripe Dashboard

Before the checkout button works for subscriptions you need actual plans:

  1. Dashboard → Billing → Products → Add product
  2. Give it a name (e.g., “27 bucks subscription”)
  3. Add a recurring price → set interval (monthly, weekly, …), price per unit, trial days (0 in the video)
  4. Save → copy the Price ID (looks like price_1....)

Repeat for each tier. These Price IDs will be used on the server side.

Ask AI: Creating recurring pricing plans in Stripe

Server-Side: paymentprocess.php

Download the Stripe PHP library manually (or via Composer) and include init.php.

<?php
require_once('stripe/init.php');

\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey('sk_test_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX');

$token  = $_POST['stripeToken'];
$email  = $_POST['stripeEmail'];
$product_id = $_GET['product_id'];

// Map your product_id → Stripe Price ID
$priceIds = [
    1 => 'price_1ABC...',
    2 => 'price_1DEF...',
    3 => 'price_1GHI...',
];

$customer = \Stripe\Customer::create([
    'email' => $email,
    'source' => $token,
]);

$subscription = \Stripe\Subscription::create([
    'customer' => $customer->id,
    'items' => [['price' => $priceIds[$product_id]]],
]);

// TODO in part 2:
// - Save user to your DB
// - Generate password + send login email
// - Redirect to thank-you page

This creates a real Stripe customer and attaches an active recurring subscription immediately. The first charge happens right away (no trial in this example).

Ask AI: Create Stripe subscription after Checkout PHP

Testing the Flow

Use Stripe’s test card 4242 4242 4242 4242 → any future expiry → any CVC.
After submission you’ll see:

  • A new customer in Dashboard → Customers
  • An active subscription with the correct plan
  • First invoice marked “Paid”

Everything up to this point works perfectly in test mode.

What’s Coming in Part 2 & 3

  • Save the user in your own database when subscription is created
  • Generate and email login credentials
  • Build a protected member dashboard that checks the Stripe subscription status
  • Handle webhook events (invoice.payment_succeeded, customer.subscription.deleted, etc.) to automatically extend or revoke access

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