--- title: [Livestream] Remix stacks SaaS billing with Stripe Checkout and Customer portal slug: livestream-remix-stacks-saas-billing-with-stripe-checkout-and-customer-portal published_at: 2022-04-09 02:08:36 +0000 updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:13:34 +0000 summary: description: Playing with Remix and Stripe billing. Code: https://github.com/cjavilla-stripe/remix-saas Remix Stacks: https://remix.run/docs/en/v1/pages/stacks tags: [] views: 2098 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/livestream-remix-stacks-saas-billing-with-stripe-checkout-and-customer-portal youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d80Q8r5-zE youtube_id: 5d80Q8r5-zE embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/5d80Q8r5-zE thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5d80Q8r5-zE/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # [Livestream] Remix stacks SaaS billing with Stripe Checkout and Customer portal *Published: April 09, 2022* *Views: 2098* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d80Q8r5-zE) [![[Livestream] Remix stacks SaaS billing with Stripe Checkout and Customer portal](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5d80Q8r5-zE/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d80Q8r5-zE) ## Description Playing with Remix and Stripe billing. Code: https://github.com/cjavilla-stripe/remix-saas Remix Stacks: https://remix.run/docs/en/v1/pages/stacks ## Transcript [Music] hey what's up good morning i just wanted to jump on and play around with remix so remix as you know is like this new front-end framework uh that also has a back-end framework it's a full-stack framework but it uses react on the front end um and then on the back end it uses these actions and loaders for uh for working with server-side server-side javascript and what i wanted to do today was go through the remix stacks so there's this uh there's a whole list of remix stacks here that um can't see dodds and the crew have put out so there's the blues stack the indie stack and the grunge stack and they're all just kind of like remix with other things in addition to remix so they have a database layer they're using prisma on the server that's kind of like the the javascript orm they have also got um you know tailwind css is already installed they've already built out authentication and a few other things so um i've really enjoyed playing around with remix at least just a kind of like hello worlds of remix and so what i wanted to do today was kind of go through the process of setting up a remix this indie stack and going through and building out um just sort of uh maybe um using stripe checkout and the customer portal or some other things to just kind of play around with uh play around with remix and so what we can do here is i'm just gonna start from this indie stack template so i'm just like going to the remix run indie stack repo and grabbing the npx remix stuff and we're going to create a brand new remix app here based on the indie stack what's up wilder how's it going sending good vibes thank you thanks for tuning in thanks for watching what are you up to today what are you working on happy friday it is friday right um and yeah okay well that's going why don't we just like go pop over to our our browser and play around a little bit with what we're gonna look at today so what's in the stack look at all this different stuff that's already in here we've got fly app i think it's like fly i o it uses docker we've got a sql light database that's like the default but you can also use postgres pretty easily with with prisma it's got this health check thing already built in github actions for deployment email and password authentication with cookie based sessions this is kind of convenient because a lot of times when you build a full stack js app you're kind of like picking and choosing from different frameworks or you're rolling your own and you're kind of like building out from scratch and it can be kind of tricky to set up the right authentication mechanisms maximo what's up my friend how's it going um also got styling with tailwind we've got end-to-end testing with cypress so cyprus is a really handy framework for that msw i haven't used very much at all except for running into errors when i was making requests so msw is supposed to be something that like lets you mock out apis i actually don't know anything about this um but we'll play around and see i don't know we'll probably run into the same error that i've had in the past but it's also got a bunch of other stuff so eslint typescript prettier and what's really nice is that it kind of like comes with all of this stuff built in so we use the um this kind of uh initial setup out of the box so we don't have to do npm run setup um and we can just run like npm run dev if everything worked paul how's it going paul jumps in yeah remix stacks feel a lot how redwood works in terms of opinions i haven't had a chance to dive too far into redwood but yeah like really loving the opinions that it gives us so what do we want to create our app let's just call it like remix sas or something and we'll npm install and that's going to create some app somewhere um but yeah it kind of gives you like out of the box you already have a user this rachel person remix that run and rachel is cool so you can like dr like dive right into an authenticated experience here with this stack so out of the box it comes as a sort of a to-do app so if we look at the actual code that you get here we have an app and it already has like models and routes and all kinds of stuff for us and what i love about this is it kind of tells you a little bit about the conventions that you need to follow so if we look at the models here um i keep getting this pop-up let's see uh go away go away um so we get in the models folder we have two model things that are supposed to have like server-side interaction what is going on here get out of here uh i don't know okay i think what i'm going to do is actually move some stuff around so one moment one moment um yeah so take a look at this user server real quick and there's a bunch of stuff around prisma so this is how we're interacting with the users in the database but we've also got this authentication piece so over here is where we're verifying the login given some raw user email and password and um yeah this is how we're comparing uh you know with like standard decrypt stuff so i'm going to do something i'm going to move this where am i moving it uh i'm moving it into uh here uh okay see all right hopefully that works i don't know uh so uh we'll see if we can appease the dependency lords over here with some npm install and it looks like maybe we didn't so node end i'm going to like set my local node in to that so we can use uh fancy handy dandy uh code uh copilot github copilot all that fun stuff um [Music] all right so let's see what we've actually got i think we can say remix run dev uh wait missing the remix package np npm what okay hold on i don't know what's going on here why oh gosh uh npm install why are you not installing okay then okay now you know what i think uh i don't think it actually ran the npx script because i think i had some like security issues or whatever so we actually do need to run that remix run setup i think let's see if this works okay so that's setting up our prisma database setting up the migrations and okay so now we should be able to uh we can also update prisma let's do that so prisma is kind of like the orm or the object relational model for our database it's super handy and i've been really impressed with how it works relative to sort of something like maybe active record or whatever other database management tool you you're familiar with so let's say npm run dev it's building out all of our tailwind css it's setting up our typescript stuff and it's built and now we can go check out well we should be able to check out our site and i don't know what's going on here come on local host oh gosh did we not sacrifice to the demo gods this morning i don't know what's going on experimental warning web is okay you know what i switched the note end after i npm installed let's see if we need to do that again uh okay i don't know let's see should be starting up but we see this experimental error warning and then like the server doesn't start up i'm not i'm not sure what's going on uh okay i've actually got another um one here npm run dev i don't know why this one worked and the other one didn't so let's see if we can just use this instead okay so this is what we're going to build this notes sas app where we can log in and sign up and when you log in we're going to say like test at example.com actually like test 9 or something password that doesn't exist so we're going to sign up let's see so test 5 at example.com what already exists test 50. how about that all right one password you're uh you're just you keep popping up i don't want i don't want to i don't want to save the password here all right then we're going to view the notes but we get a paywall are we ready to dive in so we're going to say get started this is going to redirect us to stripe checkout we're going to go through the checkout flow and then we'll be redirected back and then we can't actually see our notes until we pay so we'll say get started and then we'll go through the payment flow click on start trial after we put in our zip code uh yes the demo gods are clearly displeased with our actions this morning um [Music] it is early friday morning i um am walking around without this ankle brace which is uh pretty nice i don't know if you'll know but i broke my ankle like super super bad in the like right in january and i had surgery and it's taken forever to get back on the horse okay so this is basically what we're going to build and i don't know why it's not working in that other directory i'm just going to kill remix sass and we're going to start over here npx create remix for that template and yeah what's uh what's really interesting or like the reason why we're not able to actually like see the inside of this sas app like the under the notes section is because i do i don't have the the web hook handler running so we're going to use uh stripe web hooks today to like provision and de-provision access to stuff um and there's a couple different hooks in here that we need to add our code into so if we look at like if we go back to this app user situation gosh why okay es build es build uh okay remix sass i don't know something must have changed like overnight in terms of security stuff okay um so when we first create the user uh we could create a stripe customer right here um so in practice when you're building a sas application with stripe billing and you want to charge some customer the way that i like to set this up is either as soon as you create the customer or every time the customer logs in you check to see if they have a stripe customer id associated with their user account and if they don't then at that point you go and you create a striped customer and you store their id alongside them in the database so right here what we would do is when we first create the customer we can put in a stripe customer id now there are a couple different downsides to that number one that's going to add an api call to our create user function and that's going to slow down the create user function so if you need your create user to happen really quickly to get people onboarded then that's not really ideal number two if you already have a bunch of users maybe that were there during beta or something else then you those users will not have striped customer ids who either need to like run a migration or do something else and so what i like to do is actually check inside of the verify login like right every time they log in so when they're authenticating we're gonna check to ensure that they have a stripe customer uh set up so when they're first logging in we're gonna check to ensure that they have a stripe customer set up and the way that we're gonna do that is we'll add like a little function here with stripe j or stripe node that will go out and create a stripe customer and store its id alongside that authenticated user and this is what we do like in all of the different um like full stack frameworks right we're going to do the same thing with rails or with laravel or whatever so that's going to be kind of like the first thing we're going to do but let's see if we can actually get this thing running npm run dev cross your fingers everyone uh okay i don't know why it failed the first time whatever all right so this is the default indie stack whatever um we can log in with rachel what is your name rachel rachel something rachel at remix dot run and rachel is cool and that logs us in and so this is like just a note-taking app right we're gonna say like you know here's our our test our test we can see different notes we can delete notes we can create more notes whatever and we can log out and so the idea is let's take this basic template and make it so that it is a software as a service where you have to pay money to go take some amazing notes uh so it's yeah we're gonna make it look a little bit more like this so the very first thing again is we want to go add um i think i can actually leave that running let's see um we're gonna go add something to our database to keep track of the stripe customer id and so with prisma here in order to add the stripe customer we just come down to this model for the user and prisma is similar to django in that you just modify the model object and then you say like generate the migrations and that'll spit out some sql that you can then run and so here i can just say like stripe customer id and that's going to be a string that's not always there we could also while we're here to say we also eventually we're going to want to store the id of the stripe subscriptions we can say stripe subscription id and that's a nullable string and then we also want to keep the status so we'll say like stripe subscription status that's also a string it's technically an enum but like i don't know whatever like we could keep an integer and then have like some mapping to the integers but i'm not yeah like whatever this is fine all right so now we can say mpx um prisma migrate and we want to uh give it yeah we want to migrate dev and we're going to name it and we're going to name it like add stripe ids to user and that is going to create a sql file that is going to have like the um you know the sequel that needs to be executed in order to modify the users table in the database i think by default this one is using um sqlite yeah so this data.bdb here so if we go into like the prisma directory we could do like sqlite 3 data.db and now we can see dot tables and that gives us all of our tables select star from user that's going to give us all of our users right now we only have rachel and at the end here you see like two empty columns with sqlite you can say dot headers on i think and then select again and now you'll see like yeah the stripe customer id subscription id and subscription status those are the fields that are empty at the end so i could say dot exit or dot quit or whatever okay so what i want to do now is now that we have the columns in the database i'm going to move one layer up and i'm going to go into the models and inside the user model again i want to create that's the note model in the user model i want to create some new function here called like ensure stripe customer or something and this is going to be a method that we call and it's going to take in the user model and what we want to do is we want to check to see if there's a stripe customer id on the user and if there's not then we want to um so like otherwise we're going to create a striped customer using the api create a stripe customer so in order to create a stripe customer we need to have some server side api calls we're going to use stripe node with this so we can do like npm npm install stripe save dev i don't know if it i don't know save i guess it should be saved but whatever and then in order to yeah so so the way that these stripe api calls are going to work from the server side is we want to we're going to give our stripe secret api key to stripe node and that will allow us to make these server side api calls so we're going to open up dot end here and i'm just going to drop in stripe secret key and this is going to be my secret key i have a handy dandy little shortcut but you can go into the stripe dashboard i guess yeah uh let me show you that so dashboard.stripe.com you can sign up for a free account for strive you can log in whatever like um and it'll be in test mode and in test mode you can go to your settings tab no not your settings your developer tab api keys and this is where you'll find your api keys you don't want to share these especially not your live mode ones and you can roll them and whatever but this if you click reveal test key that's where you'll get your secret key and you can drop that into your dot n file here and then what we want to do is go over to that user server thing again you want to import stripe from stripe this is like importing the stripe constructor for the stripe node client library from that stripe npm module and we'll say const stripe is equal to new stripe and we're going to pass it that secret key process.m dot stripe secret key and i think this is fine to have at the top level inside of this user server because because the user server stuff is not actually executed as part of the components or the pages that are being rendered and then we can use this one instance of stripe node in sort of like all these functions if we want to we're going to check to see so like if the user stripe what is the stripe customer id if it's nil or if it's undefined or whatever then what we want to do is we want to um i guess if it is defined we'll just return early uh otherwise we're going to say const customer is await stripe.customers.create and we're going to pass some stuff in now there's a bunch of things we can pass to create a stripe customer we can pass the email address and uh maybe you know a physical address and a bunch of other things because we have the email from the user already what i'm going to do is pass in the email address from the user so user.email and i'm also going to pass in some metadata and this is just helpful to like kind of make a two-way connection between our data that's in stripe and our data that's local and so this metadata i'm going to pass in like user id is user.id and what that will do is like this this right here will fire an api call off to stripe and it will result in some customer data being created inside of my stripe account and then it'll come back and we'll be able to use that customer here where we can say something like await prisma.user.update and then we want to say where the id this is like um stuff that i'm is super super new to me so i'm not actually like really familiar with the whole prisma syntax yet but i think it looks something like this the data we want to pass in here now is going to be the stripe customer id stripe customer id is customer.id so that should create or should this this ensure function if we call insure and pass it a user and that user has a i guess we want to make sure that this is like the right type whatever user and that user has a stripe customer id property we're going to check to see if it's null if it is then we're going to like make an api call to stripe and then we'll update the database so that the next time we call this it should just return early all right so now what we can do is we have this user that was found with unique if the password doesn't match if the password does match and it's not invalid then we'll just call like ensure stripe customer right here with the user uh user with password um we probably want to pass like user without password but i don't know like i don't think this type is going to match users so i'm just going to pass user with password i think that's like it's fine whatever we're not actually using the password when we're calling insure stripe customer so that seems i mean it seems peaceful all right so now when we log in it should check to make sure we have a striped customer and if not it should fire off an api call it looks like i have some errors okay away can only be used inside of an async function user server yeah okay so this should be like async and it doesn't return anything so that should be fine and it looks like that fixed that okay so what we want to do now is i'm actually going to say i'm going to use the stripe cli and say like stripe logs tail just so that we have like the logs for our stripe account tailing out and we can see what api calls are firing off here and then i'm going to go back to the browser here and say let's go back and click login rachel remix.run rachel is cool and we'll click login now when i log in that should have created an api call and it did it made a post request to v1 customers and that created this customer object the logs uh in the dashboard are a little behind but let's see so now unhandled oh okay so this is the msw thing so this is like where we could mock out uh we could mock out the api and say like oh we expect to receive a post request to v1 customers on this domain and then like and then respond with whatever so that in you know when you're working locally you don't actually have to hit the real api um gosh that's good it's a little bit cold i'm drinking this um it's like mushroom coffee uh the four sigmatic something balance whatever coffee uh it's i'm like addicted to it's delicious um i highly recommend it um any do you any of you all drink any weird coffee or what what is your what is your morning brew um yeah curious okay now that we have a customer i mean the other thing we can confirm is like let's go into prisma sqlite three select star from users and select star from user actually that's hard to get used to okay and then there is our customer id that's our stripe customer id so that that is rachel's new customer id and what's nice is that it was created when um when she logged in so that's now we yeah we're like sort of set for existing users and it should also be set for new users okay the next thing we want to do is um we should not let anyone see this really feature-rich notes app until they've actually paid and so what i want to do is i want to create like a paywall and the paywall is going to be this interstitial like page on the site that you will land on if you've not actually subscribed and so inside of app uh instead of app routes what i want to do is make a new route called pay.tsx so this is going to be a page that we show when when you're not authenticated so export default function pay and this is going to for now we'll just return like um pay and we're going to work on like getting this to actually show so i think what we want to do is anytime that we are attempting to view a page that should be paywalled we want to have like a check that's part of that page that verifies and ensures that the customer has paid so how do we want to do that let's see like um typically what i like to do is the same place that we're going to have a check to make sure that the user is authenticated that they're logged in we can have like that will typically redirect them to like the login page if they haven't logged in um we can add like another step there that follows the same pattern that checks are they not only logged in but do they have a subscription and is their subscription active and if so then redirect or if not then redirect them to the pay page otherwise like let them see the thing and so what we can do here is just kind of look at this login uh the login stuff okay so when someone logs in they're using this action so remix has this concept of an action so this form is making a post request and that post request comes into this action function for the login page and it does a bunch of validations so um yeah it's kind of interesting in rails you would do this like email validation stuff inside of the model but because we're yeah because we're in um in remix we're just going to do it inside the action function apparently and then at the end this is where it's actually creating the user session and like cooking them or sort of logging them in and then redirecting them to notes otherwise if there's not like a you know a redirect that they were trying to deep link into before they logged in so what we want to do now is go over to the notes notes view and see how are we preventing people who are not logged in from seeing the notes view so if we were to log out and then try to go like straight to slash notes right we're going to be redirected to the login page and so the way this works is actually using this require user function that's part of the session server so if we go look at the session servers require user function what this does is it tries to get the user id off of the request so it's like okay we got this request that came in let's check the session let's look up the user id in the cookie and then let's try to like see if we can actually get a real user out of that um out of that cookie and if not then we're gonna throw a redirect this is really interesting i was like whoa we're throwing cause yeah we're like actually raising an exception that is then caught by some higher level sort of like routing thing inside of inside of remix and then ultimately redirecting so we want to do something just like this but that will also check to make sure that we are authenticated and so what i want to do is actually say export async function and i think we're going to probably need like pay paid versions for both of these but i'm just going to say require paid uh user id and it's going to be very similar to this other one except for the fact that we're going to um we're going to check to make sure that they have that they have an active subscription so here what we're going to do is we're going to say get the user id actually we can say now require user id so we can say acquire user id and in fact if we use this require user function that will in turn call require user id and we'll get back the full user so i think we actually want to call require user and that will give us back a full user object and now we need sort of like some condition that if it's not met then we're going to redirect to slash pay like to our paywall our new paywall page and the the condition that is going to be met is going to be some function of like do they have a striped customer do they have a an active subscription so i think i want to say active subscription and we'll pass in the user so i need some helper method here called active subscription and i think i want to add that into the models and i might add like subscription.server.ts here just because i kind of want to do something yeah i want to like use prisma and look up the user and it's kind of like a nice organizational thing i asked yesterday on twitter um and ryan florence the uh the person who made remix um he says like uh what did he say here he says like um yeah it's not it's not required but it is conventional so like i was like oh is it a rule of thumb to put this stuff inside of the server uh and he was like oh you can put it wherever you want but like by convention it's nice to keep it here because it keeps it organized and decreases maintenance over time all right so we don't actually want we need to import any types i mean technically okay whatever we want the user type um i'm also like sort of still learning typescript i know guilty uh okay so then we're gonna say active subscription is there an active subscription and the way that that is going to be checked is if we we're gonna get in a user and we're going to return um what is this oh we're actually yeah we're just going to get in a user object and we're going to return a boolean um and async yeah it should be an async function oh gosh export async function active subscription that's going to look up the user uh actually we have the user so we just need to say like um if there's no user stripe customer id then return false if there's no user.stripe subscription id return false if the user's subscription status is cancelled then return false otherwise return true i'm going to like keep it pretty simple but we can like go look at um the the statuses for subscriptions just to like make sure that i spelled cancelled uh the subscription object okay and then if we come down here to status oh no it's probably like a top level one right um okay here's all the different statuses uh i guess we really just want to know is it active or trialing if it's active or trialing um so it's active or user.subscription status is trailing if it's in either of those or if it's not in uh yeah if it's not active and it's not trialing then we want to return calls and in fact like what we could do is since that's like the final check we could just return the evaluation of that condition but whatever all right so let's go back over to our um our session server and we want to say require paid user and in order to get this active subscription thing we need to load that from the subscription server okay we've made like we've written a ton of code but we haven't actually tested it out yet so what i want to try is let's see okay so in order to also like use this sort of um paywall we need to like check to make sure that um we are calling get paid or like require paid user um we need to call required paid user as part of our like actual internal application so here where we're getting the user id instead of just saying require user id i'm going to say require paid user id and that's going to make it so that we try to access the notes route even if we are authenticated so let's log back in rachel is cool um okay so what is the deal here okay we're redirect to something something session server 68 [Music] so 68 on 68 required paid user oh we didn't um we didn't give it a request so this should take in um the request wait what what's going on here this is yeah i think this should be like this there we go okay uh user id is not defined right then we want to return user.id okay it's still passing but i don't think this is active and i think what's happening is that active okay yeah so active subscription returns a promise so we need to actually await that and then all right now there we go now we see our paywall so it's it's super small but that's that's it so let's go check out tailwind ui and just like grab some uh yeah some free trial start your free trial today ready to dive in i don't know this which which of these look good yeah i don't know this one seems cool let's just copy that and then say this is gonna be our paywall gosh it's uh i love tailwind ui it's so convenient it's so convenient just copy and paste the entire thing and it should it should just work so let's go back to our paywall here and look at that we have a paywall okay so now we have a get started button and a learn more button so what i'm thinking we want to do is let's make our get started button redirect to checkout and we'll make our learn more button actually like log you out so this get started button is actually going to be like i think we want a form here and the form is going to create um okay so when the form is submitted we're going to create a checkout session on the server and we're going to redirect to checkout uh so what we're going to do here is we're going to make this a a button and this is going to be a button and when we submit the form event like right now maybe our notes app is just some flat rate per month but eventually let's say that we want to uh add some concept of you know multiple different tiers i don't know maybe like fancy notes or some sort of like wysiwyg editor for your notes if you pay more money and so we might want to have multiple tiers and so what i want to do is just inside of the form for getting started with this specific tier i want to add um a stripe price id and this is going to be the price that we need to like sort of pin the subscription to it's kind of like the plan a price represents how much and how frequently to charge for a specific product so in our case we just have one product it's like this standard notes app thing so i'm going to have a an input here that's of type hidden and the name is going to be price and the value is going to be some price id and we'll go find that by saying oh we're gonna use the stripe cli and we'll say stripe uh prices list type one time i i'm just gonna grab whatever one time price is down here at the bottom so we have uh sure we've got like this whatever ten dollar ten dollar per what is it uh oh that's actually sorry we don't want one time we want uh recurring so what oh one recurring all right no gosh uh recurring all right here we go all right so what is this okay so 30 uh 320 a year oh let's just grab this one 48 a month okay so that sounds like about uh the right amount to charge for a note sas is 48 a month so we have this form right it's just a standard html form i'm not even using the remix form component here i'm just using a basic html form and what i want to do is i'm going to say method is post and that's going to send a post request that will be handled by our action that is on the same page so i'm going to say cons or like export const action and that's going to be some function that takes in uh some requests and then here we want to like create a checkout session and redirect or like yeah and redirect that's that's exactly what we want to do so um okay we need a couple different things though we need to know the stripe customer id for the authenticated user we also need to know the price from the forms i think we can say something like const form data is await requests dot form data i'm not 100 sure so i'm going to check out this thing yeah so that should be fine and then we're going to get const price from form beta dot is it just get yeah get uh price and then we also need to have the logged in user so i think we can do this we can say require uh user id at this point the user is not paying so this require user id thing actually needs to be giving us back some user id and so what we can do in fact actually i think we can use require just require user and that'll give us back the actual user object and now we have enough information to go create a checkout session and i think i actually do want to do that over here in subscription server just to keep things neat so i'm going to import stripe again from stripe and then initialize it stripe is a new stripe from process.nd dot stripe secret key and then i'm going to say export async function create checkout session and that's going to take in i guess we're going to take in the user we're going to take in the price and i think we're going to return a promise that will resolve with a string and it's going to look we don't need an arrow i don't know why okay so we're going to say let's just go over here where we're gonna create the checkout section and i'm just gonna copy the node one so it already has most of the stuff that we need okay so um and then we're gonna return session.url all right so the price we got in from the args the quantity is going to be one and that's the only line item that we're passing for now the payment mode or the mode is going to be subscription success url i'm just going to hard code these i'm sure there's probably some much better way to do this uh if we are successful we'll come back to localhost 3000 otherwise we'll come back to localhost 3000 pay and that should create our checkout session oh we also want to pass in the customer so that we have like the customer and the new subscription are associated with each other so we can say user dot stripe customer id there anything else we need here technically no and i think yeah let's just go and try and use this so we're gonna import uh import like create checkouts uh session from models okay and we're going to use that so we'll say like url is await create checkout session and we're going to pass in the user and the price and then we're just going to call redirect redirect to url and that you that redirect is coming from remix so import redirect from remix i don't actually know if we need to um anything in for that so let's go look at this new thing no where is it log in redirect um okay at remix node something something something okay so from our pay page uh okay that's that's the one we want it's from uh at remix run slash node i'm guessing there's like different servers i don't know does anybody know if remix works with other backends like why do we have to do this from slash node i i don't get that i'm not sure what that means all right anything else i don't know i think we should just like go try it so let's see here if we come over here and click on get started ah crash okay you uh you defined an action for this route but didn't return anything from it huh that's a return right there is this const action is are you saying i don't know like what can you please return a value or null is it okay i have a feeling it's crashing something is crashing somewhere uh okay so this oh i spelt that wrong okay nice nice hey alive less subscribe how's it going where you at what are you doing what are you working on a live less oh i like your logo that's cool uh it's like a gaming gaming thing a little controller there neat all right let's see what happens uh require user is not defined okay that's because i need to import it from require user um from what is it from again it's from session server and ah nice okay we're redirecting to stripe checkout super cool okay uh and oh gosh the description for this price is like subscribe to enterprise dedicated support and infrastructure for your company i love it uh i think i actually took that from some of the tail and ui stuff um but uh yeah all right so that's the first step is we need to redirect to checkout then the user is going to go through the payment flow they're going to pay for stuff and they'll ultimately be redirected back to our site but what we want to do is we want to fulfill payment or provision access to our sas application by using a web hook handler and i have another there's like another episode coming out on the official stripe developer channel talking about how to um set up a web book handler for remix we're not going to cover that all in like tons of depth today webhooks.tsx um but i'm gonna yeah so instead i'm just gonna like copy the one from from report remix billing webhooks.tsx okay um yeah no that's okay all right and then we need to create some let's see subscription server right okay so right now it's just gonna have a single action and all the action is going to do is await this handle function that's going to happen server side in some model that we're going to call we'll like implement down here subscription server and yeah so it's going to look something like this and yeah why don't we just grab the whole thing and we'll just talk through it okay all right so what's what's happening here is we're going to call a handle web hook so handle web hook is um going to receive the data from the post request that was sent to our locally running remix server from stripe we're going to grab a web hook signing secret off of our environment so we actually need to go to find that so we're going to say stripe web hook book secret the value for the web hook signing secret is going to be unique for every single web hook endpoint that you set up in the stripe dashboard i'm going to use stripe listen today so we're going to say stripe listen forward to localhost um 3000 web hooks and i'm going to use dash l here just so we get the latest event shapes and when you start up this stripe listener it spits out a webhook signing secret for that endpoint so i'm going to grab this value from the stripe listen stripe cli stripe listen output and just drop that directly into my end file this is what i'm going to do locally in production you're going to create a webhook endpoint in the dashboard and you'll have a web hook signing secret in the dashboard so um just be aware too that like every single endpoint has a different secret i don't know receivable sometimes okay so back in our subscription server the next thing we're going to do is we're going to pull the headers off of that inbound request that's going to give us a signing signature we're going to create a you know empty box for our event that's going to happen later we're going to await the request text so request.text returns a promise that we need to await the reason we're using text here and not json is we need that raw payload we need the raw text of the payload to do signature verification this is the way that we can check that the post request actually came from stripe and not some other third party some malicious third party that might be sending post requests to us so we're going to say await request.text that's going to give us our payload so then we're going to construct the event using this is uh using the stripe node client library a helper method on there where we pass in the payload the signature from the header and that webhook signing secret that we just created in the cli and so what happens is um when an event fires on our stripe account it will be delivered to our locally running server uh with all the different stuff on the uh on the headers and everything and then it should check to make sure like okay yeah this is actually uh from stripe the next thing we're going to do is we're going to check and see if the event type is one of checkout session completed or checkout session async payment completed and if either of those are true then we are going to uh retrieve the subscription from stripe the checkout sessions for this application every single checkout session is going to have a subscription property with the id of the subscription and we can use that to make an api call to retrieve that subscription that'll have the status like the latest status and everything so then we're going to call handle subscription created which is another function that we define down here so handle subscription created is going to take in that status and the stripe or in the local user's id and we're going to use prisma to update the internal representation for that user with the id of the subscription and the status of the subscription so that we can constantly sort of keep track of not only like what is the latest subscription for the user but also the status for that we also have this update subscription status this is going to happen anytime a subscription is updated or canceled same sort of deal um if you're familiar with stripe you've like seen you've seen a lot of this stuff before okay um so that's our handle web hook thing i don't know let's let's see let's see what's going on here so what what we're expecting is that we've got this locally running web hook server webhook endpoint and when we go through the checkout process here we expect we're going to receive a post request from stripe and that is going to allow us to provision access to our to our subscription so we say subscribe that is going to like fulfill payment and do a bunch of different things and then we should be redirected back and we're redirected back to our application and the index page was we didn't have like a pay wall for the index page the index page just had like the login or sign up buttons or this button that says view notes for rachel or view notes for whatever the authenticated user is and when we click this button we expect that the database has been updated so that we have access to our notes so if we click on this ah we were redirected to pay so something did not work so if we go back to our server okay so we received a bunch of web hook post requests but they were all 400s so let's see what is going on with those actually these look okay here's our logs we're actually gonna just kill the logs now and here okay here's our web hook events that are streaming in so we see that we're getting 400s back but it's unclear why so if we go back over to our webhook handler webhooks.tsx we should be let's see console.log e okay to make this a little bit easier to test we actually don't need to go through the entire flow we can say stripe trigger i don't know customer dot created we just want like a basic event to fire so that we can see if it is going to be successful okay we still get a 400 and why are we getting a 400 uh no idea unclear so we're getting a poster the post request is coming in we're getting a 400 back let's see so apparently this catch is not catching whatever is failing so under models um subscription server handle web hook let's see if this is if this is what's failing here console log error so we can also like add a bunch of others like console.log handling webhook and let's see here okay so what is the error the key argument must be of type string or instance buffer blah blah blah blah computed hmac okay so huh this is failing inside of the verify header function so we're getting into handling web hook and then this type error i believe is oh you know what i don't know if we restarted our server since we updated.n i don't know if we need to like actually do that but let's try that and see it's possible that the webhook signing secret wasn't loaded until yeah okay um so now we get back at 200. so the webhook signing secret from the environment from dot end wasn't loaded into um into the process and or whatever as part of the automatic reloading that was happening and so it wasn't able to verify the signature we should probably have a better message here that's like oh you know was the failure because of uh signature verification and if it was then log it out or whatever okay let's go back to the flow here we're going to say get started this is going to create another subscription but whatever um oh nice okay so here we're using link this is like a new payment method um or like a new way to pay with with stripe is like you're already logged in so now we can just click on subscribe and that will redirect us back to the index page again now we expect that we received some web hook post requests and prisma user update invalid invocation oh you know what we have to call let's see so argument where user unique input must okay so we have to have at least one unique input what is what's going on here so we i expected that when we called this oh you know what's happening okay this is good this is great um so the way that our update function works right now is we are passing in handle subscription created we're passing in the the customer and the subscription and so when we call handle subscription created it's saying where the subscriptions metadata's user id but the subscription didn't have meta data on its id yet so if we go to the dashboard again you get a quick look so over here we've got on the developers tab we can look at the logs and we'll see that the the or actually let's go look at subscriptions so customers rachel at remix and the most recent subscription was this one and okay so where is our com created invoice charge succeeded so many events okay so i right okay um i was hoping to see the subscription uh whatever like what we can do is we can just grab the oh this is for the payment okay so let's grab the subscription id so we want to go down to subscriptions subscribed uh we're okay we're on the customer view here's our subscriptions right okay so which one happened first or last um okay let's look here so a subscription changed okay this event should show us so down here you'll notice that inside of metadata for the subscription itself there is no metadata for this subscription so when we when we're creating a subscription using stripe checkout there is a little trick that i like to do and this allows us to embed metadata on the subscription object that will result from a checkout session and so what we need to do here is say like subscription data and then we're going to pass in metadata and the metadata is going to contain the user id and this is going to be the user's id that way it's much easier to look up the customer inside of the database when subscription events are firing so we're going to drop in that metadata for the user id on the subscription level we're also going to do it at the the checkout session level while we're here the other thing that i wanted to do actually we'll do it in a little bit i want to enable trials because i want to give a 14-day free trial so that people can be wowed by how amazing our notes application is um okay so let's go let's go back through the whole flow so we want to go back over here to localhost 3000 and we're going to say view rachel's notes she's not actually signed up yet we're going to pay again subscribe this is creating a third subscription but in test mode i just like keep creating a bunch of subscriptions you can go delete them okay so now what happens is we have a two we have a bunch of 200s coming back from the webhook handler that's fantastic now hopefully ah gosh okay so let's see what's going on here so we got the checkout session completed event that fired uh let's go look at the database so can i just do sqlite three prisma data.db okay select star from users user and okay there are subscription ids and rachel definitely has one and it's oh no rachel does not have one nor a customer id what happened there huh that is odd um oh you know what i'm in a different table i mean i'm in a different that's a different uh that's a different different app okay sqlite okay uh charisma all right select star from user okay so she has a customer id and she has a subscription and it's active so why are we getting paywalls uh subscription server active subscription so um scrape subscription oh you know what this is spelled wrong uh stripe subscription status okay so can we see notes now hey nice okay so we're going to log out we're going to log back in and we're going to say rachel at remix.run rachel is cool and now we see our notes fantastic but if we try to log in as a new user so like test at example.com and we try to go see our notes then we're paywalled good okay and then if we get started as this test user oh no there was no customer okay so what's happening here is when a user first signs up we're logging them in but we are not or yeah we're logging them in but we're not going through the same verify login route so during the join process in here we are creating a user and logging them in but we're not actually making sure that they have a striped custom id so here i'm just going to say await and sure actually i don't know if it's was it um ensure stripe customer so that is happening at the end of create user so create user here yeah i'm actually just going to drop it in here const user is this thing and then we're going to return user and in between we're going to say await um [Music] ensure stripe customer for the user i know i said i didn't want to do it in here but whatever like now we have it at least covered in both places and now we should be able to go back over here and actually want to log out right okay now we're in a weird situation where we can't actually log out so i want to change this learn more button on the pay wall to a log out button so instead of learn more we're going to make this log out and i'm just gonna grab the log out button from the notes view log log out okay all right so yeah cool cool cool cool and then all right so now there should be oh form is not defined form it's i don't actually know all of the remix stuff you can do with forms either yet so i know that they're like they added some fancy reacts uh like interaction performs but i'm not 100 sure exactly how to like fully take advantage of those yet um i think i also want to change indigo oh whatever like we'll just see what happens here uh okay so now if we say um sign up test example.com okay what what what uh okay user.update [Music] so when we try to insure the user yeah oh you know what create user yeah by this time we should have a user id right oh no we need to await it here yeah okay um test 32 at example.com all right okay so did that create a stripe customer customer created okay and now if we say view the notes form is not defined for the paywall oh right because we don't actually need that anymore i forgot to change that back and now we can say get started this should redirect us to checkout go through the payment flow right and then when we redirect back what do we see what do we see big money big money big money big money nice nice okay awesome now we have uh something that we can pay for right uh or like i don't know we've got a we have a sign up process for our sas application um yeah let's take a little sip here little sippy poo how's everyone doing i see there's a couple people who are watching and you're online where are you at where are you from um do you speak spanish i've been like trying to get up the courage to make a video asking people if they want to like do pairing with me in spanish because i'm like practicing spanish and i really want to get better at it but um yeah i it's super super intimidating so if you know anyone who's a technical developer that wants to speak spanish they don't have to be technical developer whatever anyone who's technical if they want to speak spanish just for fun about technical topics i think that would be um that would be awesome all right let's do one more thing let's add a button up here to manage billing and we'll use the customer portal for that and it'll just be like another button that's just like log out button but it'll just say billing or something and then when you click on it it'll redirect you to the customer portal so inside of our notes thing here at the very top we have this log out button what i want to do is add another button here that just says filling and i'm going to have this be a post request to slash i don't know billing that seems legit and then we'll make a new route called billing.tsx and in here we're just going to have a export default const we just need an action and we'll take in the request and we'll redirect so we're going to like create a customer portal session and we're going to redirect to the customer portal again we're going to need to import redirect from at remix run node or no it's just remix node remix node i think um and then what else do we need to do in here i guess we can import stripe um uh yeah sure uh no let's put it inside of our subscription thing keep it nice and organized so we'll say um actually yeah it's gonna be pretty similar to this so we're going to say create oh gosh create create billing session and this is going to be billingportal. and a lot of these are going to be different so i think this is going to be return return url and that for that will just say bring me back to my notes application otherwise uh yeah i just want to like create a billing portal session and redirect i don't need a price anymore i just need a user that has a stripe customer id so let's come back over here and say let's see const url is a weight create billing i forget what i called it great billing session and that's going to take in the user we need to get the user off of the request so we need to import require user from a session server gosh remix is it's a it's a blast to work with i have to say um but i also have to say that like if it weren't for these stacks like i don't know if i would have known where all the pieces fit and it's just such a blast to kind of like work with something that already is kind of started for you um so let's see return redirect to url i think this is what we want something like this right so we're going to create the customer portal session and redirect oh look at that we've got a billing button click on billing method not allowed method not allowed uh export const and then this needs to be uh async um there's no loader for it i'm not trying to make a get request folks let's see drilling post requests no i think i've seen this before and i think it was because i didn't have this action set up correctly so what is there anything in the logs that tell me uh okay maybe i got this wrong remix node is it not called remix node remix dash run remix underscore run remesh remix dash run gosh i wish it was just uh just remix i don't know um all right let's see billing okay create billing session is not defined you're right it's not all right we're going to import that one from models subscription server and yep there is no loader billing missing required param customer so require oh you know what this is probably um that's probably one of those asynchronous functions that returns a promise and nice okay we redirected this is awesome uh cool so yeah here inside of here i can say like oh i want to update my plan and instead of being on the enterprise plan i want to switch it to the yearly freelancer plan or whatever and you can you can change you can change that and like you can configure all the things that they see inside of the customer portal from the dashboard but uh i really just want to kind of get this working so i'm pretty happy with this but i'm gonna just mess around a little bit more and try to make it look better i'm trying to be a little get a little bit better at tailwind and just like css stuff in general so like it's totally functioning now in fact like if we go to the billing portal and cancel our billing we should not be allowed to go see all of our stuff so if we say cancel plan here yeah we want to cancel our subscription cancel our plan that should fire another web hook handler that we're handling and like making sure that we de-provision access so if i say return to demo i get the paywall again so if i'm like oh shoot like okay i can see the landing page but i can't actually view my notes because i have to pay because i've already canceled my subscription so the only way to get back in would be to go back through the whole checkout flow and resign up and everything so i'm just going to log out and let's yeah let's mess around with some styles here so um first of all like i love that kind of like green style i don't know you've seen it right you've seen it that's that uh i don't know test something at example.com new user um when you say get started like this green this like teal color i like this color it's fun i think it's pretty and so what i want to do is i'm going to switch that to be sort of my primary color inside of the application so from the top level let's go into our index and i think by default there's a bunch of yellow stuff in here yeah so i'm going to change yellow to teal and let's just kind of like go page by page and i might have actually just like make this a little bit uh smaller here so we can play around as we go um i don't know why i have so many chrome windows okay so that's teal i mean that looks pretty good this image i don't know like yeah we'll take the image out and then like go get a picture for let's go get a picture for um note taking i don't know this is probably like against copyright stuff but whatever we'll just okay that one looks good uh sure save image as like note taking all right and then i'm gonna move from downloads into uh note taking to um public so there's a public directory inside of remix is right here and now we should have notetaking.jpg and i think i can just say like notetaking.jpg maybe i don't know is that going to work oh nice okay but it has like this yellow tint over it and that's because there's like some overlay yeah this overlay thing that has um the background color this is like a super fancy tailwind thing i actually don't know exactly how that works but what i can do is inspect this indie the indie stack there and go to computed and i don't know if you can see this but this is one of the things i like to do when i'm trying to find colors is i'll just go to computed and i'll say color and that pretty quickly shows me like oh this is your color right here 20 184 166. and so i'm just going to say 20 184 166 and see if it yeah okay so that kind of turned it green right it made it a little bit more green that overlay that's sitting on top of our image so that's kind of cool now if we say view notes so the paywall now like inside of the paywall all of the tailwind ui stuff i think it uses indigo yeah i'm going to change out indigo for teal and then refresh the page and that didn't work did i not save it oh there we go so that's teal so now if we say get started actually let's log out and we'll log back in as someone tests test rachel um at remix.run hey how's it going welcome um yeah we're just hacking around on a remix app and we're gonna say rachel is cool actually our login page needs to be restyled too so we're going to go here and say i think it's yeah these ones are blue so we're going to say bluetooth and login bluetoteel and log out oh it doesn't have one join okay so then also in our notes app like this color that's at the top i think that's actually slate um slate yeah so let's change slate also to teal and nice okay so now we've got this like kind of tealish thing at the top but when we hover our buttons are still blue hey how's it going welcome where are y'all from where it's like what time it what time in the world is it where you're at what are you working on what are you hacking on welcome to the stream thanks for hanging out um all right so we want to make the button so when we hover over them they don't turn that blue color so let's just say like blue to teal also blue to teal and now when we refresh the page nope i didn't okay did we not save uh okay there we go that's pretty right it's pretty nice new note all right we've got to change our new note form so that that looks nicer um blue to teal and blue to teal and blue to teal if we refresh the page our save button did not actually change so this should be in the new view oh there it goes okay it was just behind it's just behind all right so now we've got this thing that looks pretty good and we can save new notes second note first note new note whatever okay and when we go to the billing page like the billing page also sort of matches roughly the same style love it that's super cool one thing that's bothering me is that this log out and billing button are sort of like evenly distributed with yeah like the the logo the email address so i want these to be friends i want them to be next to each other so what i want to do is go to i guess it's going to be this one's going to be like in the notes inside of the notes layout here and we've got these two forms and so i'm going to wrap them in a div and i think it should be as easy as just giving this like class flex or something i don't know yeah okay so now they're friends um but let's give them a little bit breathing room because they're like too close to each other um and it makes yeah the log out button is clearly uncomfortable right now so we'll say class name is oh actually yeah i should have used class name here too not class right because we're inside of react um so for the log out button let's give it some right side padding so we'll say pr four i don't know how does that look ah nice love the breathing room i love the breathing room i think i want the log out button also to be like the the right most button so let's actually just switch this up and say that we want to change the padding can i do padding left i don't know if that's going gonna work okay very nice very nice so now we can go to the building page and we can go back and okay i think i'm happy with this like i would probably go change the fonts and everything too but um yeah let's let's so let's like do a quick quick run through of all the stuff we hacked on so the first thing we did was we added a couple of fields to the prisma schema right so down here we added stripe customer id subscription id subscription status to the user we ran a little migration to add that the next thing we did was we went into our session server and we added a new function here that would like require a paid user and requiring a paid user is sort of like a way to to check to make sure that you have a user that has an active subscription um to ensure that they're allowed to see the stuff that's like behind your paywall then the next thing we did was we went over to the um the notes view which is kind of this is like the inside of the application and here is where we actually call that require paid user id thing and this will raise an exception it'll throw an exception that causes a redirect to the paywall if um if the user has not paid yet so that's kind of like where we used it and then inside of this new subscription server thing we added a bunch of stuff so the first was we added this billing session we just did this this was to redirect to the customer portal the next uh next down here we've got the create checkout session this is how we actually redirect to checkout um oh there was a couple other things i wanted to show um yeah so we'll get to that in a second but uh and then we uh we had a couple of methods here for um this is the one that checks to see if the subscription is active so we say like if they don't have a customer id and they don't have a subscription id then the subscription is like obviously not active otherwise we want to check the status of the subscription and if it's not active or and it's not trialing then it's definitely not they're not allowed to see their stuff and then we set up this webhook handler that said when i receive either of these events we want to handle a new subscription being created and otherwise if we want to if we handle either of these events which is anytime a subscription is updated or cancelled then we want to also update the status internally so that we can just like make sure that people are not allowed to like access the app um but let's get even crazier i know like we're going to get a little funkier so i know that we've been on the stream for an hour 20. i'm going to take a sip of coffee here and then i want to show trials so we'll set up a trial period and then i want to show the new the brand new like test clock thing because there's like this amazing thing you could do you could travel through time to like make sure that things are happening as you expect so let's take a sip of coffee or whatever you're drinking um at home yeah so here we go all right let's take a look at the test clocks okay so test clocks are this brand new concept where you can create a clock and freeze it in time and it is a stripe object that we attach things to and then we can move the clock through time you can advance it through time and when you advance it through time it'll like result in all these different changes that are happening on the object underneath here so where are we creating that okay so we're creating that stripe customer inside of the user model that's right so down here where we call ensure stripe customer um we're passing in some params to create that stripe customer and the way that we want to use this the test clock is we're going to create a new customer that is attached to a test clock now there's no reason you would ever want to do this in production you only ever want to do this in test mode but it can be super handy and i want to show you how we can do it so what i'm going to do is i'm actually going to just extract these params that we're using to create the customers i'm going to say const customer params is equal to all of this stuff so we're going to pull that out and put it up here and then i'm going to just pass it in as our params now if we're in development so process dot n dot node and is development then what we want to do is we're going to create a test clock and pass that on customer params okay so what we want to do here is we're going to create a new test clock with the stripe api so we're gonna say cons test clock is a weight stripe.testhelpers.testclock create um and this only takes in one thing and that's frozen time and the frozen time is gonna be a new date uh get time i think that's how you get the time in javascript let's look all right so if we say new okay can you see this new date dot get time okay is that i know i think it's like divided by 1000 um math.floor gosh it's hard to get a unix timestamp out of in javascript all right that's that's that's harder than it should be all right whatever like that's going to give us our unix timestamp that's the time that we're going to freeze is we're going to freeze it for like right now the next thing we need to do is add that to our customer params so dot uh yeah dot test clock is going to equal test clock dot id and then we're gonna create a strike customer so if we're in development we're gonna create a test clock and attach our customer to it if we're not in development we should just create the customer with their user id and their params so let's let's uh let's do it let's go through the process and sign up for a new account so we're going to say here we'll say log out i'll say login or sign up yeah sign up test example.com i guess our join didn't like get updated to join or blue i don't know it says teal right there that's weird oh yeah i don't know why that was cash or something okay so test uh clock example.com uh params is not defined okay params yeah because they call it customer prams that's why customer params okay um test clock two at example.com okay so that should have created a brand new customer object so if we go to the dashboard here testclock2 there's our new customer and if you look over here you see that tiny little clock and that clock means that this object is managed by a test clock or like as part of a simulation so we can change time forward and backward so we can go to the test clock or we can like mess around with this so this is this is super cool stuff so what's nice is now what we can do is inside of our our create for our checkout session in addition to the metadata for our subscription data we can pass in trial period days i think it's called trial period days let's just double check so under create checkout session under subscription data trial period days i call it right okay trial period days so what we're going to do is we're going to start a subscription on a trial and then we want to make sure that that customer is actually charged uh money like after the trial is over which we can now do with these test clock things so we can go back over here and say show me my notes oh no i got a paywall get started we're going to go through the flow okay so we're going to check out here and test blah blah blah start trial so notice it says 14 days free so this customer out of the gate should not actually be charged anything so you'll see that we have a okay we should have a new subscription now for the this user and they are on this is their subscription it says the trial ends on april 22nd so right now whatever it's april 8th and so if we go back over here and say let's view the notes we can view the notes because we're trialing that's totally right but what we can do is we can actually go through the dashboard you can also do this through the api like we can we can advance time through the api but what i don't know it's it's handy to just play around with it from the dashboard so let's say that i want to go like you know uh one week in the future we'll say advance of course i have to put a password um and then what we're gonna do is take a look at this subscription hey thank you thanks for thanks for your time and attention and hanging out um yeah this is this is just a fun kind of like learning public hacking around on remix but uh okay so the clock time now is april 15th we advanced it one week now notice the trial is still going to end on april 22nd we still haven't charged this customer any money so we're going to advance the time again let's now advance it to the 23rd so like one day after whatever their their their trial expires so we're going to advance it forward and uh this takes a little while like sometimes this can take uh you know 30 seconds or something because what's happening is behind the scenes all of those different objects are being created and web hooks are being fired and there's you know invoices and they're in draft state and then they're in a finalized state and things are being like you know simulated that they're being sent around so here we actually see that there is an invoice that is created uh initially it's created in draft if we refresh this then the customer should have been charged for their um for their subscription i think did we not go far enough in the future why is it in draft let's see what is going on here um uh we'll be finalized and charged at this time yeah but we're past that time i don't know what's going on um let's go back it's active oh so now it's active it's no longer trialing so that subscription should be oh wait what paid okay why is this one in draft oh is this one for the next payment um april 22nd yeah okay it might just still be like advancing or something so if we go back over here to the events you can also see that there's a bunch of web hook events that fire that are related to the test clock so you can see that it's ready that it's advancing and then again like it settles and there's a bunch of events that are in between so the trial is going to end the invoice was created the customer subscription was updated et cetera et cetera et cetera um so that is super cool i just want to like add that little note i think i'm gonna probably do that in most applications going forward it's just like in test mode it makes tons of sense um or like in development mode to just create a test clock attach it to the customer and then you'll always have test clocks that you can sort of advance time forward and backward you might also put this behind some flag or something that you can enable and disable what's nice about this too is that after i think it's 30 days or something from when the test clock is created it'll automatically be destroyed and when it's destroyed it'll also destroy and clean up all of the other objects that were associated with it so like the customers and the subscriptions and all of that will be um will be deleted so um yeah i think i think that's it uh again thanks so much for hanging out uh this was fun remix is amazing i'm yeah i'm a huge fan i've been thinking about doing maybe an episode that's like you know remix for rails devs or something just kind of like comparing and contrasting but um yeah i'm just having tons of fun with remix uh and i hope yeah i hope this was useful thanks again so much for watching and hanging out and uh yeah if you found this useful i would love to subscribe and they're gonna we'll probably do a ton more remix content on this channel um and otherwise yeah again there's gonna be a couple like shorter tighter remix episodes on the stripe developers channel on the official channel that are to be about setting up web hooks and just generally setting up the payment element which is a way that you can accept payment directly on your site there's no redirecting out to check out so head over and take a look at those those will be coming out in the next couple of weeks also ach was just released which is super cool um but yeah i've kind of rolled off of the clear bnb i've been thinking i don't know maybe we'll do a couple episodes more about it maybe we won't i'm not sure but otherwise yeah if you have ideas for content or if you have ideas that you want to see made with remix or made with rails would love to hear those and yeah i just got my ticket for rails comp so if you're heading to portland in may i'm super pumped to see you there and yeah we'll 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