Question about Stripe recurring payments

  • Resolved seank123

    (@seank123)


    2 years, 4 months ago

    Hi

    Looks like a really nice option for a smaller commerce site.

    I have a couple of questions regarding Stripe and recurring payments:

    1: If we sell a subscription product – say ￡100 per year – is the recurring payment handled by Stripe itself? For example, I can create a subscription product within Stripe and use their own Payment Links etc to sell the product. All recurring payments are handled by Stripe. Does SureCart need to be active for future payments to be processed?

    2: Can I add different product type to a payment? For example, I have a subscription plus a cross-sell product (eg a t-shirt). Can a customer buy the subscription and the t-shirt in the same cart/transaction?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author Andre Gagnon

    (@2winfactor)

    Hi Sean!

    Happy to help.

    1. In order to provide our advanced subscription features (installment/payment plans, 1-click upsells, mixed checkouts, etc) we handle subscriptions on our end. No need to have SureCart active. This is handled on our platform so subscriptions will continue to renew even if you have deactivated SureCart or even completely deleted your site ??

    2. Yes, absolutely. We call this “mixed” checkouts and it’s part of our platform from the core.

    Any other questions, let me know.

    Thread Starter seank123

    (@seank123)

    Thanks Andre

    That makes sense. But what would happen to active subscriptions if, for example, SureCart went bust and had to discontinue the platform?

    Plugin Author Andre Gagnon

    (@2winfactor)

    We are using SureCart, ourselves for many of our own products. We have a large team with many products that rely on SureCart (SureMembers, SureTriggers, etc.). Without it, our own businesses wouldn’t have revenue streams. But technically speaking it would be possible to migrate those to the processors themselves (Stripe/PayPal) if you ever wanted to.

    Thread Starter seank123

    (@seank123)

    I see – I will have a play with my Stripe sandbox!

    Just trying to cover all bases when talking to clients – I’m sure this sort of question would come up!!

    Thanks for your help

    Plugin Author Andre Gagnon

    (@2winfactor)

    For sure!

    If you’re playing around in Stripe, you should notice the customers and payment methods are already there for SureCart purchases. You could even create a subscription on behalf of your customers outside SureCart, right now. One of the benefits of connecting your own Stripe account to SureCart ??

    Thread Starter seank123

    (@seank123)

    Thanks – I’ll take a look!

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