How would I go about creating a product in the Stripe extension in Firebase using flutter?

Question

I am building an event management app and am currently in the stage of adding payment funcionality to it. I have followed the firebase documentation and all seems to be in working order and I can easily add products to my firestore database when using the Stripe dashboard. I am just wondering how this could be done either client side (flutter) or using cloud functions?

I have tried watching tutorials, looking at the limited github examples and reading the documentation however all the products seem to be made through the stripe dashboard - obviously not ideal to have to manually create every one!

Answer 1

Creating Products via the Stripe API requires an Account's secret API key. You should never expose this since it provides full access to your account. So creating Products from the client-side is not something we will consider.

Additionally the Stripe Firebase Extension does not include any cloud functions for creating Products. The docs even have you create a restricted key to keep your account safe. All of that suggests to me that you will want to either

1. Create products from the Stripe Dashboard as previously indicated in tutorials and documentation.
2. Run local scripts to create products via the API using one of Stripe's client libraries which you can install locally.