Store Information in Stripe for Future Payments

[Amelia Sandberg]

Hi,

When our customers submit a payment online their information, including CC information, address, name, etc are sent to stripe. However, they are not created as a “customer” within stripe, so there is no way to charge them for future payments.

I am looking to see if there is a way to setup future payments using the stored credit card information. I contacted Stripe and they pointed me here -> https://docs.stripe.com/payments/save-during-payment but I am unfortunately not able to figure this out on my own.

Thanks

[Angela Schofield]

Looking for the same information. Can someone from support please pick up this topic, I think it is crucial for using the plugin.

[J. Davis]

Thanks for your feedback. We have this request in our list of features so I’ve added your upvotes to the task. We will notify you when we have any news.

[Angela Schofield]

I don’t understand why this isn’t already a feature, as it is the most crucial element in the hotel booking process. Without this feature, the plugin is worthless.

[Amelia Sandberg]

Hi, thanks for the reply. My understanding based on my multiple conversations with Stripe is that it should be a pretty simple integration with the code available, I am just unsure on where in the code it needs to go.

I would recommend reaching out to Stripe directly as they should be able to help you in understanding where to put the code. Then you could relay that information to us so we could integrate it ourselves.

Thanks

[J. Davis]

Thanks for your reply. Our developers are working on requests of higher priority at the moment. We will notify you if we have any news.

[Eliane]

Hi! I wanted to know if there was any development on this topic?

[J. Davis]

Hi Eliane, there are tasks with higher priority at the moment, however, we still collect feedback on other requests too. Thank you.

[Amelia Sandberg]

Hi Elaine,

I used a workaround as the system won’t let you do it yourself and there appears to be no urgency from the Motopress team.

If you go to stripe you can set up a payment link (https://docs.stripe.com/payment-links/create). As part of the payment link, you can set it up so that the credit card is save in Stripe.

How I worked around it is I had my site, itself, not charge the customer, but rather make the booking and then direct them to a payment link for them to process the payments. So all the hotel booking plugin does, functionally, for us, is make the booking and the financial stuff is handled directly through stripe.

This requires a little bit of extra effort on my part to ensure that, once the booking is completed, the customer did go to the payment link and put in the down payment. If they haven’t, I cancel the booking and reach out to the customer and tell them it’s required. This has happened a few times, but not enough to make me take down the link as I’d rather have the CC information saved for future use.

It’s not perfect, but it works for what we are doing.

I hope this helps.

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