--- title: Customer Payment Flow with Stripe Checkout - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 19 slug: customer-payment-flow-with-stripe-checkout-creatorplatform-xyz-part-19 published_at: 2022-09-24 11:27:02 +0000 updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:13:07 +0000 summary: description: Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS6F722u-R6IJfBrIRx3a2SBkAL4vUp2p Code: https://github.com/cjavdev/creators.dev/ Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjav_dev #rubyonrails #ruby #rails tags: [cjav_dev, web development tutorials, web development for beginners, vim, ruby, rails, javascript, ruby on rails, active record, ruby on rails tutorial] views: 1220 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/customer-payment-flow-with-stripe-checkout-creatorplatform-xyz-part-19 youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUL7NUGljXE youtube_id: UUL7NUGljXE embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/UUL7NUGljXE thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UUL7NUGljXE/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # Customer Payment Flow with Stripe Checkout - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 19 *Published: September 24, 2022* *Views: 1220* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUL7NUGljXE) [![Customer Payment Flow with Stripe Checkout - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 19](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UUL7NUGljXE/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUL7NUGljXE) ## Description Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS6F722u-R6IJfBrIRx3a2SBkAL4vUp2p Code: https://github.com/cjavdev/creators.dev/ Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjav_dev #rubyonrails #ruby #rails ## Transcript foreign hey what's up welcome back in this episode you're going to see how we can take our storefront that has a list of products and when someone clicks on this we'll we're going to redirect through the stripe checkout flow to accept payment for this product on behalf of the creators that are using this platform so we're going to generate a new controller we're going to say rails G controller and it's going to be in the stores namespace it's going to be called checkouts so we already have a checkouts controller but in the the stores namespace we want a separate controller that will be accessible through these subdomain routed or custom domain routed applications so we're going to say resource uh check out we're gonna jump over to the checkouts controller that is in the store's namespace so we're going to say modules stores and this is going to use the store base controller let's add a create method here which is going to create a checkout session using stripe so we're going to say our checkout session is stripe check out session.create and this checkout session is going to be the thing that has a URL and we're going to redirect to that checkout session ultimately so this is an API call to stripe to create a checkout session payment method types is an old feature we don't actually need to specify that anymore that's going to be derived automatically based on the customer's location and a number of other things so what we do want to pass here is the mode being payment we want to pass the success URL cancel URL and we also want to pass some line items that's going to be a list of items and then that should be a good start so the success URL we want the user to probably come back to some URL that is related to this publicly accessible route and thank them for their purchase and so what we could do here is have the show route for the checkouts controller here be the success URL so let's do yeah store check out success you are no we're gonna let's call this the store check out URL and this should have a method here called show and this is where we want to like just render uh thanks or something right we're gonna we'll figure that out later and the cancel URL we want the BR we want to bring them back to this uh product listing which is going to be on the store root URL for this domain which is like the current domain so we would need to figure out whether we're on a custom domain or not but we can start with we can start with this so the line items now this is going to come in as params so we're going to have the price that we want to purchase and we're also going to have a quantity the quantity for now is just going to be one and the price will be in params price this checkout session is going to be created on the connected account and so we need to know the stripe account ID for the current store so the way we can get the we have at store and that store is going to have access to the user.account.stripe ID and that should give us the the correct account that we want this checkout session to be associated with so let's update our product listing and add a button to each of our products so that you can click on the button and that will bring you through the checkout flow so we're going to remove these links and instead we're going to have a button right next to the price here and this button will bring us to the checkout flow so this is going to be a form with the action um slash checkout method is post we need our input with the type hidden name authenticity token form authenticity token another input with type hidden with the name price and the value is going to be equal to product.stripe price ID so that's going to be the ID of the strike price that we're sending into the controller and that will ultimately be used when we're figuring out what to charge them for okay so we need to add a button to this form so I'm just going to grab a button from here and we'll say this is of type submit and we're gonna say this just the button text is just going to say bye okay so if we come back over to our storefront we now have this buy button it's kind of ugly but um it works now I'm noticing that as I enter I'm I'm there's like a hover effect here that's happening and so that hover is because we have some sort of um yeah we have this absolutely positioned inset thing so let's remove that and now we can click on buy okay so this is fantastic now we're redirecting through the checkout flow undefined local variable or method store checkout URL so what we can do is go to slash blah and see what our routes are because we should have a checkout path that is namespaced for store so yeah we have two methods here that are called checkout path so I think what we want to do is go to our routes and name this as store checkout so that we have access to that over here so then we click on Buy uh okay so it looked like it did something right and if we look at the network tab we did get a response back let's look in the server logs and see what's going on we had our post request to checkout come in and then with the right stripe price ID no template found for the checkout controller create ah okay so we are not actually redirecting it so check out controller and after we create the checkout session we need to redirect to checkout session.url allow other host is true status is C other okay so then let's try this again come down here click on Buy and okay so now we okay so now in the logs we see there's a course error for CS test and we see a 403 that's because we need to disable turbo on this form so we're going to say data turbo is false okay and then when we refresh this page we will now see click on buy we should be redirected to checkout and we are fantastic okay this is not working anymore because we're not on the ngrok subdomain so the image that was uploaded is not going to show through um but okay so we have a test at example.com uh the 4242 card sure okay whatever fill it all in uh and click on pay so after we pay we should be redirected back to that store URL where we're going to build out this thank you page but for now I think it's just going to say thanks it's just going to print out thanks to the page all right so we see thanks that's fantastic so now what we could do is look up and find what product they bought render that on the page but at this point we are successfully going through the checkout flow for our product listing which is pretty awesome so we now have some buttons appearing down here we've also got our prices let's move the button down below so that it's a little bit uh so it's a block button and it goes all the way across the um the entire bar there so we're going to edit the style of this button so that it's no longer inside of this same div okay we're going to create a new div and we're going to remove the P tag all right let's see okay so we moved it to the bottom that's great all right so I think we want to change this to w full and okay so now it's the full width and also let's give it a little bit of margin top all right that looks pretty good uh the other thing is that ideally this button color is the primary color for the store so that is going to be a little bit trickier because these colors are based on um this BG Indigo 600 is based on a Tailwind color but we want the background to be a custom color that was passed in by the user when they created the store all right so for now the background color is BG Indigo 700 but what we want to do instead is come in here remove all of the the background stuff and update it with a style directly so we're going to set the style to this background color which is going to be at store dot primary color all right let's see if this works so now when we refresh the page all right was that the color of the store I can't remember let's come back over here to store and edit the store I guess that was the primary color let's pick a better primary color that is more fun now let's say save if we come back over here and refresh now that's our new primary color that looks great now we could probably do some fancy math to figure out whether or not we should show white text or like a darker color text so that it's um there's more contrast and it's easier to see because this white on the screen is really tough but at this point we have a pretty solid little store here that is branded as so and so far as that we have one color that's coming through so that's pretty neat and I think the other thing that we might want to do is take these primary colors and every time we update the store I think we want to also update the stripe accounts brand settings that are related to this connected account so that when we redirect three stripe checkout the the brand colors continue to match so every time we update a store go back to the stores controller here when we update this store let's also update the account so let's say stripe like right now recall that we have this stripe account class that helps us create accounts let's say let's make a new one that says like um that says update account branding and then it will just it'll just know that it needs to use the store because we have only one store um I think actually that's actually pretty close okay so the yeah so we're going to create a new service called stripe account.new and this takes in the uh the connection no this takes in the account so current user dot account now service dot update account branding all right this will work for now we're just going to make a synchronous call to the stripe API to update The Branding so inside of this class when we call update account branding we're going to say return if the store is nil no well return if yeah so the store is account.user.store that should get us over to the store right so we have account the account has a user and the user so let's say has one store through user now I can just say count.store if the store primary color is nil or the store secondary color is nil then we're going to return early that will protect us if we have not actually edited the store initially and then every time we update the store going forward it's going to set an account primary and secondary color now let's go look at the account update settings on the stripe API so stripe.com Docs we want to see accounts update and I believe we can pass in these settings under the settings argument under branding so settings branding primary color secondary color so this is going to be account.update pass in the account ID and then we pass in um settings branding primary color secondary color so that should be pretty cool we don't need to store anything from the result and let's just see if we can get that working so every time we update the account so let's make the secondary color some like pink I don't know save okay undefined method primary color for account oh right this needs to be store okay refresh all right that seems like it did something in the background so if we come over to creators and refresh now when we click on buy and we're redirected through checkout look at that the checkout page is super bright okay uh so in order to match exactly match the styling on the previous page we will want to use the secondary color for the button so on our products index page um instead of primary color we want to use secondary secondary color there so that back over here it doesn't look yeah so now you have like this kind of like I don't know fuchsia button and when you redirect you now see like this wild green background in the future button to pay it aligns a little bit better but we probably maybe we want to have like a big green bar at the top or something that will give even more visual indication as we go through and update the brand settings so I think this is a pretty solid stopping point we now have a full checkout flow it's branded it matches uh pretty closely and yeah so we're going to continue building out this Creator platform thank you so much for sticking around and uh if you are enjoying this I would really appreciate thumbs up and a subscribe thanks again so much for your time and attention and we'll see in the next one --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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