User Flow

Hi @smellygit,

When a logged-out user visits a page that is restricted to a Stripe Product, they should be shown a form allowing them to create an account and a submit button that will send the user to Stripe Checkout after their account is created. A sample screenshot of this form can be found at the top of our plugin’s website here: https://restrictwithstripe.com

Can you please confirm whether that form is showing when you try to view restricted content while logged out? If so, can you please try to perform a checkout as a new test user and let me know if that works as expected?

Thanks for the reply David.

I see that it works as a new user signing up to the Stripe product. But I guess I was wondering if it works when you link WordPress to a Stripe product that already has members in it, or if I was to import a user database into my Stripe product, would new accounts be created on WordPress? Is there a way to manually link a new user to a Stripe payment?

Cheers
Gary

Hi Gary,

Restrict With Stripe links WordPress users to Stripe customers by storing the ID for the Stripe Customer as metadata on the WordPress user object. The WordPress user is then said to have purchased a Stripe product if their associated Stripe Customer has an active subscription for that product.

There is not currently a user-friendly way to set the Stripe Customer ID for a specific WordPress user, but I have just added this as a feature request on the Restrict With Stripe repository here:
https://github.com/strangerstudios/restrict-with-stripe/issues/17

In the meantime, if you would like to link a user to a specific Stripe account, this would need to be done directly in the wp_usermeta table of your database by finding the entry with the user_id of the user who you would like to link to Stripe and the meta_key beginning with rws_customer_id_. Updating the associated meta_value with the ID of the Stripe Customer should give the user the access that the Stripe Customer has purchased.

For your use case, you would need to create a WordPress user and then update its meta value for each Stripe Customer that you would like to import. We highly recommend backing up your database before making any manual changes so that those changes can be reverted if anything goes wrong.

Please let me know if this all makes sense or if you have any clarification questions about this.

Hi David,

It sounds like that feature would be perfect for me then.

So in my case, I’m going to have to create 100+ user accounts (or import them). Then go into the database and manually add the ID of each member to their ‘rws_customer_id_’ key. (Unless I can import this too).

As long as I know it can be done, that’s fine, even if it’s going to take a while. New signups will be fine.

Cheers
Gary

Hi Gary,

We have actually just released Restrict With Stripe v1.0.5 which adds the ability to include the Stripe Customer ID when creating a new user in WordPress and also allows for updating the Stripe Customer IDs for existing users when editing their profiles. This update should prevent the need to make changes directly to the site’s database.

Once you know the rws_customer_id_ key for your site (it contains your Stripe account ID which is why it varies from site to site), it should also be possible to import users in bulk using a WordPress user import plugin that allows for importing user metadata.

I hope this helps to get you started! Please let me know if you have any further questions about this.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by David Parker.

Wow, thank you for the quick plugin update. Will definitely give it a test.

Cheers