Can't programmatically initiate a charge in Stripe
Michael Garite
- When offering an upsell within the product itself we have to ask the user to re-enter a credit card. We would like the user to click a button and authorize the same stripe payment id.
- This is important to make the product we are selling a lot more accessible. Asking the user to re-enter credit card info is bad UX
- Having the user re-enter cc info then storing two different stripe ids - gonna get messy.
- Pass an id in member object we can run for payment that taps into the stripe payment id you guys created on your end to ensure you're getting a cut of our transaction as well. We receive a response type that payment was received and everyone moves on with their day.
Duncan Hamra
Michael Garite Can you tell me a bit more about your situation from a member's perspective? What type of thing are they paying for?
Am I correct to assume that the upsell doesn't need to be associated with an actual membership plan in Memberstack? You just want to charge them something in Stripe?
And from a member's perspective they are paying a sum of money to get access to some kind of service or bonus that has nothing to do with content hidden by Memberstack?
Michael Garite
Duncan Hamra: You are correct - the up sell has nothing to do with a membership plan in Memberstack. Simply access to stripe payment id so i dont have to ask user to re-enter their credit card info when in there memberstack profile they already have a credit card associated. Its extremely confusing to the user to have to enter a payment method when they see a payment method in their profile.
We curate properties that are of investment quality through out the united states utilizing automated intelligence. The up sell is property data for each home using a third party API. We need to paywall that property data for each property. Ideal scenario -> The user clicks a button "gimme the data" the button auto authorizes card already on file -> upon payment success we add the data to their dashboard. We are happy to give memberstack a slice of the pie on this. We're not looking to bypass a memberstack pay cut in anyway.
To reiterate for clarity : its extremely confusing to user to enter credit card details for this option when their credit card is on file. We simply just cant access it from the api end.