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title: Building a SaaS app with no-code using Bubble and Stripe
slug: building-a-saas-app-with-no-code-using-bubble-and-stripe
published_at: 2022-07-21 17:19:25 +0000
updated_at: 2023-01-30 22:52:12 +0000
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description: In this live event, you'll learn from Ben from Stripe and TJ from Bubble about how to build a subscription software-as-a-service (SaaS) business with Bubble's no-code tools and Stripe. #Stripe #Payments
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author: CJ Avilla
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# Building a SaaS app with no-code using Bubble and Stripe

*Published: July 21, 2022*
*Views: 4805*

## Watch

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## Description

In this live event, you'll learn from Ben from Stripe and TJ from Bubble about how to build a subscription software-as-a-service (SaaS) business with Bubble's no-code tools and Stripe.
#Stripe #Payments

## Transcript

so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] hello and welcome back to another episode on the stripe developers youtube channel here today we've got a really exciting session for you we're going to be building some sas tools but we're going to use no code today so uh welcome back again i'm cj from the stripe developer advocacy team and i'm joined by ben from stripe and tj from bubble the uh resident exercise experts in both no code and sas and so we've got a really exciting uh set of demos today for you so uh maybe you could start with a round of introductions tj do you mind going first tell us kind of like yeah a little bit about yourself and then maybe ben yeah if you can go second cool yeah so hello my name is tj andrews i'm a software engineer at bubble primarily i focus on the user experience of our visual editor as well as the onboarding education and payment flows which includes our stripe integration and uh yeah ben yeah i'm ben i'm one of the engineers on the billing team and i'm currently involved a lot in a lot of stripes no code efforts so i'm excited to be here and kind of show off what we've got going on awesome awesome i know ben you've done a ton of stuff with bubble before you've done demos with bubble uh and now that you're you're at stripe i think um yeah you and tj combined we're gonna see some really cool stuff today so why don't we go through first if tj do you mind kind of just showing us some yeah some tips and tricks for how we might work with bubble and then we'll get into the stripe stuff in the second half here cool sounds great so first for folks that aren't familiar with bubble bubble is a visual programming framework that lets people build and deploy custom web apps so we've got a powerful points and click web editor built-in database and cloud hosting platform that allows you to design interfaces build workflows and create complex marketplaces sas products and more um so yeah i'm gonna give a high level intro of how bubbles basic interface works um and then deep dive a little bit more into our plug-in system so that it can set up ben for what he's gonna show in a little bit so first um over here on the left is the tabs so there's seven tabs uh to help build your app so starting with the design tab this is for defining your app's visual appearance workflows are for defining user interaction data for managing data your users create styles for creating reusable designs plugins for adding extended functionality settings to define app-wide controls and connect to external services with one click and logs to monitor apps usage and activity so now let's walk through plugins um the main plugins i want to show off or demonstrate today are the stripe plugin and the api connector plugin which is what ben will be using later for showing how to work with stripe customer portal but yeah so you go to the plugins tab you click add plugins over here on the left there's filters you can use and also we have free and premium plugins so what i'm going to show today are both free and built by bubble we have third party developers or bubble or you can just search so if i type stripe we can install that real quick and then api oh the api connector i get that one cool so first we'll start with the api connector so this is a special plugin built by bubble that lets you connect to any service that exposes a json based restful web api we can use it to fetch data from an external service or post data to trigger some actions um so i'll do a quick example with a a basic api that that i built um outside of this app so first i just click add another an x uh add an api uh we'll call this fun facts because this is really just gonna grab some facts from this api and then we can display it to our users um so first we need to define a call so the call can just be get facts in here we can say like what kind of um http method we want to use in here we're just going to use a git but we could we could use others of course so this is the restful endpoint that i've created we can we can call this from the browser so i'll check that box and you have to initialize the call before it can work which is basically mapping this data to bubble so we can use it inside of our bubble app and here we see like what kind of things come back from this api so if we wanted to not use some of this like i don't care about the created dates or the created by we can ignore the fields what i really care about is this fact here which is the text so i'll just save this um yeah let me just show you real quick how to use it in the design tab so go into here uh create a text we'll call this uh uh fun fact and we'll be getting dynamic data from this so we just click dynamic uh data get data from an external api and this is our api we created and now what we want is the response which is actually a list so from a list we can do a lot of things we could get the first item the last item i think we want a random item here and we want the fact which is going to be text so now it's basically saying we'll have fun facts and then some text afterwards and we can style this make it a little bit bolder so let's let's just make it dark now we can preview it and let's just see what it does so now this is live on the web and you know if you go to this url there's this is debug mode here which has this down here but you don't have to use that uh fun fact an ostrich design is bigger than this brain if i refresh the page it should get another random uh fun fact and to prove like what it's actually doing um almonds are a member of the peach family so if you look at the network traffic it's actually going to this fax api grabbing the response there's seven of them and getting a random one so uh yeah that's that's kind of a high-level overview of how we use the api connector um we it's much more powerful than that contrived example but i think that kind of gives you an example of like what you can do with the api connector for stripe uh we actually have built sort of this in-house app that we use for our plugin that can do tons of different actions so if i go to the plugins tab look at stripe here you'll notice that there's a we list out some of the contents you can do with the stripe plugin so there's data calls that we use to just grab some data from stripe and then there's actions we use such as subscribing the user to a plan or paying an invoice and those are actions we can use on stripe so what i'll do with this app is just demonstrate sort of the the app running and then i'll give you a little behind the scenes of what's going on in bubbles to make it work so if i just hit preview on this app let me log out i'll create a new user here log in tj tests o sign up for the app cool so here's my user um monthly recurring charges and one time charges are zeroed out we'll look at that in a little bit but here's some of the things we can do and add cards create coupons i'll demonstrate subscribing to a plan so hit the subscribe button this brings up the stripe checkout screen so let me add some details in here and this plane was already set up on stripe uh so that's that's what we're seeing on the left here so hit subscribe cool so successfully entered and i'm subscribed to a plan let me refresh this real quick hopefully yeah so my mrr is now 49 um and one time charges is still zero dollars so let me purchase a product as an example so if i were to buy this 25 item it had already saved my credit card information so i'll just leave that hit pay cool so we were charged uh and my one time charges is now 25 and yeah so we have this invoice showing up here that's part of the api and yeah let me show you from the the uh the bubble side sort of what's going on so the easiest way to see what happens from a button click is to just go to the button and see what's going on in the workflow so i'll just hit the start slash edit workflow so what this is saying is when the subscribe button is clicked it's going to to run this action first so step one subscribe the user to a price so this is uh this is an action from the stripe plugin so when you sell it you'll have access this action the plan names are you know come from the stripe integration that we have set up with this uh with this account and that's the 49 plan and then after this comes back it'll go to step two which create a new revenue i'll describe that in a little bit but what's happening is it's creating a this data type called revenue a new row essentially a new record in our data um where the mrr is 49 and the user is the current user so if i want to see what that means i go into the data tab in the data tab we have different data types user is created for every bubble app but revenue here is something that i created um you know before this and if we wanted to create a new data type it's really really easy uh we can create anything here and just hit create or we can add a new field like if we wanted to say refund amount for example like if we were tracking refunds we could add a new field make it a number create it and now we have a refund amount um you can also view the data so this is what it looks like you know from a tabular standpoint so one row could be mrr another one could be one-time charges um so if we go back to the workflow that's all this is doing it's creating any revenue and entering it in the database and similar with purchase uh it's charging the current user which is a different action creating new revenue this one actually the results of the first step we can use uh which turns into an order and the amount received including coupons which is a number and we divide by 100 because it's cents based from stripe so um yeah and that's creating a record for revenue and then it's just to use it in the app up here this is where like the magic number comes in we're searching for the revenues so user is current user which will give us a list and we want each item's mrr in this case which evaluates to a list of numbers and then you can run functions on those numbers so i chose sum you could do like average or median or other functions on a list to get the number but yeah so that's just the sum the total mrr and similar for one time charges except this is each item's one time charge so very easily can display a bunch of data uh in the in this visual way um yeah i think that's mostly what i wanted to show from a bubble plug-in standpoints um and yeah i'd like to hand it off to ben to go deeper into to the demo yeah so uh hello hello uh thank you for that uh tj uh so uh basically what we're gonna be going through is uh how to build out uh a pretty comprehensive stripe integration with bubble uh just like from a basic sas app perspective so we're gonna pretend like we're building an application we want our users to sign up we want them to pick a plan and then we want them to be able to upgrade or downgrade that plan so from from that point of view i think the first thing we're going to want to be doing in our bubble application right is we is essentially we want to create those pages we want to set it up in stripe and we're going to be using a really cool feature today called the uh pricing table which is coming out uh later today it should be going live for all all stripe they're all stripe merchants so we're really excited about that so just to start off we're just going to go into our bubble database and we're going to add some of these strike fields so we're going to create a customer id uh we're going to be creating a subscription id and these are going to be just using the use to track some of the different uh stripe fields uh on the on the user here so we're gonna create price id this will track what tier you're on and once we have that we're just gonna create a couple basic pages in our in our bubble app so we're gonna just drag in here um a sign up form uh we're gonna create another page for uh the pricing table so we'll call it plan picker uh we're going to create another page called dashboard which will have some basic information now i'm just going to go ahead and drag a couple of uh things into here using the using the bubble editor so we're going to drag in a couple text fields so this one we can just say email and then plug in the use the logged in user's email so we know who's logged in we can do that for a couple other fields so we want to know like your customer id that and then finally we can plug in their price id so when a user who's logged in goes to this page they should see this information um and then last but not least we want to create a nice button for them to manage their subscription and we'll hook all this up to workflows uh soon but i'm just setting up the the groundwork here uh next thing we're going to want to do is actually start creating some things in uh stripe so if you go to a field of your stripe account i have here already pre-populated a basically a two-tier application so you have a basic tier and a premium tier uh you can kind of click in here to see is 25 a month versus 100 a month and what we're going to do is create a pricing table for these so you go to pricing tables create pricing tables and if you don't see this in your startup account yet it should show up later today because it's this is like a brand new feature going out uh today so it's very exciting so we're just going to add uh the basic tier and we're going to add in the premium tier so this will be a pricing table that you can just plug into any website or application and it will let you check out from here so we're going to click continue here and uh let's see things you can see kind of the pricing table the payment page that they end up going to when they click one of the tiers and then finally the confirmation page now what we're going to do is we're going to redirect them back after they go go to their go check out so we're going to go ahead and copy our url for the bubble app and then we're going to send them to the dashboard so we're going to say dashboard there for both of both of these and then we're going to click finish and it'll spit out some html for us to copy so we have this so i'm just going to grab all this code here and uh we're going to plug it into that plan picker page that uh and then so for this specific component we're just going to drag in an html component because we have this raw script here and we're going to add one uh one extra thing to this which is the client reference id and this is going to be used later in one of our workflows to uh pick out the specific session so we're just going to go ahead and plug in the unique identifier for that user and then we're going to make this big so we can fit the whole thing and now we're just going to preview this page to see if it works i'm just going to go ahead and start from the index page and actually while we're here we might as well set it up so when you sign up it sends you to this plan picker so we open up our workflows here and because i dragged in this component we have a bunch of sign up and login workflows so here's the one that happens when you sign up we're going to have the second step to be going to the plan picker we just created so we have that now let's go ahead and preview this we're going to go ahead and sign up and it should take us to the plant picker now it's loading the pricing table what okay we're going to go ahead and pick uh basic and goal 4242 and then when it's done it should redirect me back to our dashboard page now it's not going to tell me any of the information about stripe yet we still have to set up the workflows that pull out the information at post checkout and loads it into the database so right now you see it knows who i am but it doesn't know my stripe customer id or my strike price id so we're going to go ahead and get that part working now so in order to do that we're going to be using something called stripe web hooks with bubble back end workflows so bubble has this thing called back end workflows and in order to get it turned on you go to your settings you go to uh which one was it api and then there's this check box here that says enable workflow api and backend workflows this essentially lets you define uh apis that other applications can call within bubble and in this case we're going to say stripes web hooks are going to call this back-end api and when certain events happen like for example that you've created your subscription or you've changed your plan we want to trigger certain actions to happen in the bubble database so we're going to go to this new section called backend workflows here and we're going to create let's just create one called subscribe so this will this is what we want to have triggered uh when someone subscribes we're just going to check these boxes now in order to define what kind of uh payload we're dealing with we go to this thing called detect uh request data and then click detect data this gives us a url that when we send a payload to it bubble will pick up that payload and then turn it into a bubble's data model so you can pull different information out in your workflow so we're going to go ahead and trigger um we're gonna go ahead and create a web hook for this so we go to developers and then click web hooks and then create a new endpoint and uh i think we have one already so i'm gonna go ahead and delete this one real quick so we can create another one just for this example so i'm just going to paste in my url here for subscribed uh this gets called on subscription creation and what we're actually going to be listening to is the checkout complete so when a checkout session has been completed there is another alternative where you can do a subscription created but in this case we um we want to be able to get the actual customer who created it because we don't know who they are yet so we're going to be using checkout session completed this should have all the information we need um so we're just going to click add event here and then all we need to do now is uh trigger this event so what i'm going to do is just go through this one more time i'm going to go back to this plan picker page i'm going to check out one more time and then it should send a web hook to to this specific page and we should be able to then make our workflow so 4242 one more time okay and now you can see here it actually got that payload so we have all the different fields that we can deal with here and uh i should actually see in here the the important part which is this client reference id if you remember i set that in that uh html it has the id of the unique identifier of that bubble user so we can pull that out to know who's actually performing the checkout so we're going to go ahead and save this and what we're going to want to do on subscribe is actually update the logged in user so we're going to want to make changes to a thing on subscribe the thing to change is something we need to search for because we don't know who the current user is at this point we're going to search for users who have their unique identifier equal to something in the request data which is that client reference id so once to make sure that those are equal we want to pick the first item because we are only expecting a single item out of this search sometimes when you're searching for things in bubble you can get a list of things and you need to kind of figure out which one you're trying to get but in this case we just need the first one and that'll get that so then we just want to start adding in the things we we actually do have which are one the customer id so in the in here we have the customer and we have the subscription id which is this now one thing we don't have yet is the uh price id now this is because the checkout session doesn't have that data it only has a subscription id so we'll need to make a get call on the subscription and then set the price to that now what does that mean exactly so we have here um the api call to get a subscription this is just the stripe api right so in here we have uh you can you have the price id that we're trying to get and in order to do that we're going to use the something that uh tj showed us earlier which is the api connector uh now so if we go to i have already set these up so i'll just kind of show how it works so we have here um the get subscription api so we i've defined here my in my key values kind of the the my secret key uh please don't steal my test mode account so we have here a get request to get a specific id and then we can make that call in there i've also set up another one to create a portal session which we'll get into in a second here but uh so let me just kind of show you how to actually use this get request so go make a step two here and then on plugins we have get subscription and then all it asks for is the id of the subscription so you just say result of step one or we can just pull it out of the request data actually so we can just pull the subscription out of there and then this should uh get this step will now return a subscription and then the last thing we want to do is one more time make changes to that uh step one user or yeah make changes to that same user we did in step one and this time we want to actually set the price id so we're going to pull the result of our step two i know it gets this is kind of how you do it in bubble we want to get the the plan id so um but this is essentially what we're going to do to get all the fields set in our database now um hopefully when i test this everything should work i need to do one more thing before i actually run a test and that is update my web hook and the purpose of that is i need to delete this back that says slash initialize because we've already initialized our web hook and then we we don't need that slash initialize anymore so i'm going to delete it we're going to go in here and now i'm just going to go ahead and do an end to end test here so we're going to go back to back back back to the plan picker and now this time all right let me just remember what my email was uh then test drive okay now when i subscribe it should go through and call that workflow all right let's see if this works okay so as you can see everything worked flawlessly right we have our price id we have our customer id and i did forgot to put the subscription id but if i reload our database you can see that's filled out as well now that we've gotten that working uh the next step is to let the end user actually manage their subscription so to do that we're going to be using something called the stripe customer portal and uh essentially that's a a page that you can redirect your user to and it lets them manage their subscription change their plan do a cancellation all kinds of very useful things that you otherwise you would have to build yourself and this kind of solves a lot of that pain so we're going to be turning this button into that so what we're going to do is it's going to be quite straightforward we're going to go to the dashboard page we're going to click this button and we're going to create a workflow that gets triggered when you click the button so we click start workflow we click here and then what we're going to want to do is make an api call to that if you remember i showed you that create portal session api defined and it um essentially this just takes in the customer id and that's something we did store on the user so this time we can use current user because we we know who's logged in we can pull out their customer id and the return url we want to go right back to this dashboard so i'm just going to copy this url and then paste it here and uh theoretically that should work once i last but not least i have to redirect them so i'm going to click open an external website and then we're just going to pull right out of that step the uh where is it url so that url will be a strike portal session and now when we click preview here we should be able to get this all working so now when i click this button it's going to make an api call to stripe create a portal session redirect us here and boom we've got essentially everything we need uh so here we have you know our basic plan 25 dollars a month we can click update and then we have see the premium plan i can i can upgrade right here uh it'll prorate the 25 dollars i've already paid so we have only paid 75 dollars to upgrade click upgrade and uh it'll we can then uh you know go back and click this go back button and it'll take us right back to the dashboard now uh this is not going to be reflected in our application yet though we still have the this price id is the old price id the 25 plan price id what we want to do is make it so bubble is aware that the end customer just changed their plan and for that we're going to create one more web hook so one more so the web hook we're going to create here is another back end workflow and uh we're going to create a new one we're going to call it change plan and we're going to do the same thing we did before which is detected data request and copy this link um what did i say here yeah yeah so i'm just going to create a new endpoint it's just going to initialize it and then this time the event we want is a subscription event so subscription dot updated this one gets called whenever you have any change to your subscription uh so this is what we want we're gonna add it and now we're just gonna go ahead and do the same thing we did before which is make the change to our subscription let me oh yeah i know i made a change okay i'm going to click his to create another portal session redirect to it and we're going to up we're going to change our plan again back to basic you can see we're trying to charge zero because we've already paid for it and here's our payload so we have all the information we need including the um the plan that they changed to right so here's the plan id that they changed to right here which is what we're going to want to pull out and change in the database so we're going to save this and then one more time we're going to need to do a search so let's see search search search make change to a thing make a change to a user so we're going to search for a user where their customer id is equal to the subscriptions customer i should have just done oh i could have either searched for the subscription id here or the customer id but it doesn't really matter again we're going to pull the first item out of that search and we're going to change one field which is the price id the other fields stay the same and then we're going to pull the plan id which is a price and then that should theoretically handle um all the all of that case so i'm just going to delete this extra one i accidentally created okay i think i think we're good to test this i just need to do the final thing one more time which is of course get rid of this slash initialize at the end click update okay now let's uh test one more time if i go to this dashboard page preview it now we're going so this this is still the 25 dollar price we're expecting it to change from this lfa at the end to something else so we're going to click update here update plan update here and if everything worked correctly when we go back to our application we should be able to see yeah mqf that is not the same one so it did register the change and the use of this is right you can have part of your application uh gated until the the price has updated to the premium plan right so you have your basic features um i know it doesn't look like much it's just text right now but like just imagine uh we had a check saying oh if you're on this price show this if you're on this other price showed that you can plug in your upsell flows all kinds of useful things using all what we've done on this demo today and obviously there's a lot of things i haven't covered um like for example cancellations which is also a function of this customer portal right we can plug in handling cancellations we could have a status field on your customer object where you can track if they're active trialing canceled past due and have certain actions happen based on those um using the the foundations we went over on this uh live stream um but honestly that's all i really have to show does anybody have any uh any questions so i i have a question if we could um i think two things come to mind number one like if if you're trying to set up these web hooks and these workflows and it's not working where might you go to debug that and then number two uh if you're using um i think it's like user level permissions tj can hopefully jump in here and uh add a little bit of color here there's uh there's like a permission setting too that um may trip folks up so yeah i would love to kind of just talk about both of those things yeah yeah so the place you want to go to um if you're having any issues is the logs um so the logs are pretty useful here so you click server logs and then you can uh see if we have you can just click search like two minutes ago this is a this search box is amazing by the way you can type in like anything like five days ago it takes human readable text and uh does it i this is like one of my favorite uh like time picker things because you just type in the text and it figures it out for you um but anyway so you you basically pull up the logs and then you can actually see it going through your workflow so you can see it started running the change plan workflow that means it got the payload it pulled the thing i wanted to change which is the current user so it was able to find that i've had it happen where my my search criteria was wrong so if this showed as blank and that's how i knew oh i need to go back and look and fix my search criteria obviously i was able to pull the price out of the payload and then it changed it you can see here where it actually created the the portal session using that api this was another step earlier where you click the button it creates the portal session see these logs are really useful for tracking uh your workflow runs and as you said before i think cj there are some things that can trip you up that trip me up specifically one is i think if you're dealing with users um if you users specifically there's a lot of uh privacy security settings um around that uh where are maybe tj you can jump yeah in the data tab if you click that uh data okay yeah yeah yeah and then under privacy yeah so by default we don't want to uh expose all of users data to everybody um so whenever you're getting the data from a back-end workflow you don't have a logged in user uh you want to make sure that the privacy settings are correct or you can ignore them on the workflow itself so yeah this is a this can definitely trip people up cool yeah we've we've also got a couple other questions here uh there was a question about d3 i think d3js and if there's uh things built into bubble that allow you to do maybe some like complex charting um and then we've also got questions about connect and some other best practices but tj yeah is there any color that you could add around uh yeah like charting plugins or things you can do inside a bubble with charts yeah exactly so natively uh there's there's not any uh built-in charting but we did we do have a a built element called chart element it uses chart js i believe and then there's a bunch of other um external plug-ins so like chart element is the first one you see there and when you install that onto the app you'll see more visual elements on the uh in the design tab um so then you can add charts um and i'm not sure if somebody actually have a has a plug-in for d3 but it can certainly be built on bubble so that's the cool thing is things can be built as a plug-in you know as people need them super cool let's talk about christian's question here what about stripe connect features uh so i i can speak to the the stripe side of stuff and i think ben can too uh it's totally possible to create the customer portal and the checkout flows with stripe connect tj i feel like i've seen somewhere that there was a there was like a stripe connect plug-in is that maybe that was like a community maintained plug-in or is that part of the official stripe plug-in uh that's a good question um stripe connect is where you're reselling you're selling uh your users are selling on your platform basically yeah it's like two-sided marketplaces is the traditional use case yeah if you go to stripe um and the plugins there you'll uh sorry just if you click on that and some of the data calls uh where the actions are about um i think that there is one to for seller transfer to seller um everything related to sellers i think register the user as a seller so those are where you can be a marketplace um you know on top of bubble it's very very cool very cool so those will enable the stripe connect apis and anything you you can't find in this plug-in you could definitely build using the api connector here um traditionally with connect right you're you're making api calls on behalf of a merchant who has connected to you um so it would essentially be uh you'd have to store some sort of information about who you're trying to make an api call for i think it's it's definitely possible um that's probably something to to look into in the future for uh making a plug-in tj yeah that'd be a fun that'd be a fun addition for sure building yeah building two-sided marketplaces so we're you're thinking things like shopify or lyft where you're sort of enabling payments on behalf of some other business uh yeah very very very cool we've got another question here um thanks christian and sleep deprived for your questions nick asks what is the best practice when you're selling both subscriptions and bespoke one-time purchases in particular where the subscription is like an add-on to the one-time purchase so i definitely so there's a couple ways to kind of think about this it's definitely the best i think best practices one if you already have a subscription created for somebody um and you want to like add on uh like at a maybe a one-time invoice or something that's kind of related to that subscription we have this feature in the api called ad invoice items basically you update the subscription add the invoice item to it for whatever one-time charge you're interested in charging them and it will kind of show up under the subscription so it's it's like related to it um obviously we have for any any sort of regular uh one-time charges we have uh just the invoice api in general which is great for creating these one-time charges um having a subscription be an add-on to something else that we're definitely been thinking about um add-on pricing in general and i think that's something uh we will probably support in the future where we have this complex uh add-on model uh where you where you have like oh you have a subscription and then here's a five dollar add-on or here here's like a one-time fee and you can get an add-on subscription for that um i think nothing is supported out of the box for for checkout stripe checkout for for that specific use case where you have the subscription being an optional um add-on um but yeah so if you wanted to if you wanted though to support maybe a setup fee or like a one-time fee that is at the beginning of a subscription you can do that by adding um in addition to like the subscription line item where you're specifying the recurring price you can also specify a one-time price and that'll show up as like an additional fee when you redirect through the checkout flow the first time if you're mid-cycle yeah ben mentioned the invoices you can create those directly to collect a one-time payment this is really common if you have a recurring uh recurring subscription business but you need to bill like a large invoice one time where you're negotiating a contract and you've sort of like set terms with a specific user and maybe you want to have them pay up front for three years and sort of lock in a certain deal you might do that with invoicing directly through the stripe dashboard i also know there's like tons of tools in the bubble plugin for stripe that allows you to collect one-time payments for a specific customer too so if you have like these recurring payments you can always sort of charge the card on file or whatever through the bubble uh through the bubble extension so yeah we we actually use that for bubble itself so like bubble has a subscription model um for the uh professional type planes but then if you were to add a plug-in it's a one-time charge sometimes sometimes it's occurring at one time so we actually use the stripe plug-in ourselves to add invoice items to subscriptions that already exist so and it's built into the strike plug-in um i think it's create an invoice item on onto a subscription works well awesome awesome yeah there it's there's a lot of different trade-offs too if you're choosing between making just a one-time charge via a payment intent or via stripe checkout versus creating an invoice as ben's showing here on the screen at the bottom of the customer portal which is this stripe hosted page where you don't have to build any of this we have the invoice history so one of the benefits of going the route of creating an invoice is that you'll have these pdfs that you can link out to and you'll have the yeah the full invoice history for that customer which can be very convenient so very cool there's one one other question here from sleep deprived is there enterprise pricing for uh for bubble somewhere uh yes i i think we have a pricing page but i'm not sure if the um the uh we have plans called dedicated right now which is like getting onto a dedicated host and i'm not sure if we um have exact pricing so you'd have to contact our sales team to understand like the use cases but bubble.io slash pricing let's see compare plans and things like that super cool any any other questions as we wrap it up here um it looks like maybe there was one more about refunds so let's see oh uh we've got okay so it came in via the bubble chat are we able to automate refunds say someone makes a payment but hasn't completed the workflow just to like fully sign on maybe it's 14 days and then you can automate a refund on day 14. is that something that we could do with bubble i'm not sure about that one d do you know ben so i guess if if it's something that that sends a strike web hook right like for example like we have like past due or i mean that's not a good one though i i do know bubble has i think scheduled workflows where you on on a certain thing when a certain thing gets triggered you can schedule like a workflow to get triggered in the future is that am i sounding correct dj on that it's been a while since i've used them yeah i think there is a time-based workflows that you can create um so i would probably look into having one of those trigger 14 days and then once that gets triggered at the 14 day mark it would check this whatever criteria you're interested in looking at and then if the criteria matches you refund them otherwise you don't refund them perfect very cool ben tj thanks a ton really appreciate your demo everyone that's watching thanks so much for your time and attention and uh if you want to stick around uh stay tuned for future episodes of no code content sas content we've got a lot of sas fundamentals content coming out soon we're really excited to to show you how to use the combination of this checkout in the customer portal in a lot of future demos if you haven't already if you're on youtube go ahead and subscribe to the channel otherwise if you want to follow at stripe dev on twitter and follow bubble on twitter and if you want to reach out to ben or tj we will include their twitter handles down or some way to contact them down in 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