Can I add Card Details without charging the customer with Stripe? - laravel

Question

I need my customers to add their credit card info, but I don't want to charge them right away. Is there any way, I can add their details to charge later when using Stripes checkout solution and just store their card token first?
I am using Laravel Cashier on the backend.

Answer 1

You should first create a Stripe card token. You have two options to do so:
On the client side (recommended) using Stripe.js & Elements, you first create a card Element (The Elements object) and then you create a Stripe card Token (stripe.createToken())
On the server side (Create a card token). The easiest way is to install the official Stripe PHP library with composer require stripe/stripe-php and then use the following piece of code:
\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey("{your_stripe_api_key}");
\Stripe\Token::create([
"card" => [
"number" => "{card_number}",
"exp_month" => {card_expiration_month},
"exp_year" => {card_expiration_year},
"cvc" => "{card_security_code}"
]
]);
Once you have that token you can use Laravel Cashier to store the Stripe card token in database and update the card information in Stripe with the following methods:
$user->updateCard($token);
$user->updateCardFromStripe();
More information on those methods in the Updating Credit Cards section of the Laravel Cashier documentation.

Answer 2

If, like me, you're looking for getting the token :
\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey("{your_stripe_api_key}");
$token = \Stripe\Token::create([
"card" => [
"number" => "{card_number}",
"exp_month" => {card_expiration_month},
"exp_year" => {card_expiration_year},
"cvc" => "{card_security_code}"
]
]);
$user->updateCard($token->id);
$user->updateCardFromStripe();
Thanks #louisfischer