Example
Initial Setup
To use Stripe for handling payments we need to add the following to the composer.json then run composer update:
"laravel/cashier": "~6.0"
The following line then needs to be added to config/app.php, the service provider:
Laravel\Cashier\CashierServiceProvider
Databse Setup
In order to use cashier we need to configure the databases, if a users table does not already exist we need to create one and we also need to create a subscriptions table. The following example amends an existing users table.
See Eloquent Models for more information about models.
To use cashier create a new migration and add the following which will achieve the above:
// Adjust users table
Schema::table('users', function ($table) {
$table->string('stripe_id')->nullable();
$table->string('card_brand')->nullable();
$table->string('card_last_four')->nullable();
$table->timestamp('trial_ends_at')->nullable();
});
//Create subscriptions table
Schema::create('subscriptions', function ($table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->integer('user_id');
$table->string('name');
$table->string('stripe_id');
$table->string('stripe_plan');
$table->integer('quantity');
$table->timestamp('trial_ends_at')->nullable();
$table->timestamp('ends_at')->nullable();
$table->timestamps();
});
We then need to run php artisan migrate to update our database.
Model Setup
We then have to add the billable trait to the User model found in app/User.php and change it to the following:
use Laravel\Cashier\Billable;
class User extends Authenticatable
{
use Billable;
}
Stripe Keys
In order to ensure that we ares ending the money to our own Stripe account we have to set it up in the config/services.php file by adding the following line:
'stripe' => [
'model' => App\User::class,
'secret' => env('STRIPE_SECRET'),
],
Replacing the STRIPE_SECRET with your own stripe secret key.
After completing this Cashier and Strip is setup so you can continue with setting up subscriptions.
