Stripe Customer Portal PHP Implementation - Redirect customer to URL

Question

I am exploring the possibility of implementing a Stripe Customer Portal (https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/customer-portal) using the Stripe PHP API (https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/integrating-customer-portal).

The Portal call would be made available on a button once users are authenticated so that customer IDs can be retrieved from external DB using the session's log-in credentials.

form method="POST" action="/customer_portal.php"

Action would run the following command nested in the PHP file. This snippet sends a POST request to Stripe servers and triggers a response from Stripe servers which contains 7 attributes:

POST Request

\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey('secret_key');
\Stripe\BillingPortal\Session::create([
  'customer' => 'customer_id'
]);

Response Body

{
  "id": "portal_session_X",
  "object": "billing_portal.session",
  "created": 2569878511,
  "customer": "customer_id",
  "livemode": false,
  "return_url": "https://example.com/account",
  "url": "https://billing.stripe.com/session/{SESSION_SECRET}"
}

The next step is to fetch the "URL" attribute contained in the response body and use it to redirect the user to his/her customized Customer Portal. I am having trouble with this step.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot.

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '20 at 02:58

Once you have created the Customer Portal session:

$stripe = new \Stripe\StripeClient(
  'sk_test_123'
);
$customer_portal = $stripe->billingPortal->sessions->create([
  'customer' => 'cus_123',
  'return_url' => 'https://example.com/account',
]);

It would be a case of redirecting your user to the URL returned in that session. For example:

header('Location: ' . $customer_portal->url);

How you implement that last step is up to you and how your web server is set up.

If my answer helped you, please accept it as the answer to your question :) — Paul Asjes, Sep 29 '20 at 00:32

Stripe Customer Portal PHP Implementation - Redirect customer to URL

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