创建30多个条带计划，缩放问题

Question

So I am using stripe to allow my customers to do recurring billing (on-demand cleaners), the problem I have that at the moment there are 30+ plans a user could be assigned to depending on their inputs. For example:

User 1:

• Cleaning interval = every 4 weeks
• House size - 4 bed

plan = A

User 2

• Cleaning interval = every 6 weeks
• House size - 2 bed

plan = B

The above example has loads of permutations, so obviously as we get bigger and we move countries the permutations become greater.

Now my solution to scalability was to create a plan per user (would this scale to 100k plans in stripe)?

The second solution was to do token based payments and setup a cron or something similar to process it (how easy would it be)

I am using PHP, so any solution would more than likely be done in this

I would love some feedback or even case studies on how to solve this

Oliver

Answer 1

Stripe does not restrict the number of plans you can create, so you could potentially have tens of thousands of different plans.

However, that doesn't seem like a very good solution. What you could do instead is use the " metered billing " payment flow:

• Create a plan for $0 / month (or whatever interval you want to use)

• Create subscriptions to bind customers to this plan

• At the end of each billing period, a new invoice will be automatically created and an invoice.created event will be sent. Using webhooks , you could catch this event on your server and create invoice items for the actual amount you want to bill.

• Approximately one hour later, the invoice will be closed and payment will be attempted. Depending on the result, either an invoice.payment_succeeded or invoice.payment_failed event will be sent.

• If the payment fails, it will be retried according to your subscription settings .

Since it seems you have different billing intervals, you might need to create a few different plans (all for $0, but with different intervals), but the general idea still applies.