Been using and enjoying Stripe for a while. Good tip about the Webhooks, we tend to do a LOT of user account processing and clean ups using webhooks to track failed payments, expired cards etc.
One tip - if you have more than one web app that you want to bill for, please be aware that you can set up multiple 'companies' under the one Stripe account. It took us a while to figure this out, and at one stage we were trying to handle callbacks for 4 different web apps with one central webhook endpoint. (As Stripe only allows you to specify one webhook endpoint per company).
Using multiple companies we can now have each web app handle their own webhook callbacks. Plus we can also isolate the customers, subscriptions and plans for each web app. Everything still goes back to the one central bank account for the parent company, but managing each individual app is a breeze.
Another caveat: Be careful with the discount coupons in Stripe when using against subscription plans. For some reason, the discount is NOT applied to the FIRST month's subscriptions, but only on subsequent ones, necessitating a manual refund of the difference to the customer for their first month's payment.
Hmm - thanks for the clarification. It must be something in our setups then, I will check further. Just to confirm - it works OK in your case for brand new monthly subscriptions where a coupon is applied at the point of sign up?
One tip - if you have more than one web app that you want to bill for, please be aware that you can set up multiple 'companies' under the one Stripe account. It took us a while to figure this out, and at one stage we were trying to handle callbacks for 4 different web apps with one central webhook endpoint. (As Stripe only allows you to specify one webhook endpoint per company).
Using multiple companies we can now have each web app handle their own webhook callbacks. Plus we can also isolate the customers, subscriptions and plans for each web app. Everything still goes back to the one central bank account for the parent company, but managing each individual app is a breeze.
Another caveat: Be careful with the discount coupons in Stripe when using against subscription plans. For some reason, the discount is NOT applied to the FIRST month's subscriptions, but only on subsequent ones, necessitating a manual refund of the difference to the customer for their first month's payment.