Well, if we're going to be selling a subscription for widgets, then we need to set up what's known
as a stripe plan.
So I'm logged into my stripe dashboard right now, and I am, as you can see over here, viewing test
data and make sure that your viewing test data, we don't want to be playing with live data or trying
to make live credit card transactions while we're in development.
So make sure your interviewing test data.
Now, I want to add a subscription plan.
So I'm going to click on products here in the left hand menu and I'm going to click on Add a Product.
And it's really straightforward to do this.
First of all, we have to have a name.
So I'm going to call mine Brons Widget Plan because I might have a silver plan and a gold plan.
And the description is optional, but I'll put in receive two or three widgets for the price of two
every month.
OK, there are additional options which I'm not going to use, but I'll look at them.
A statement description is how it will appear on the credit card statement, and that's a maximum of
twenty two characters for some reason unit label.
Again, we can look at this.
Adding a unit label describes how you sell your product, for example, if you charge by the seat.
What?
We're not doing that.
So I'm not going to leave that stuff alone.
So I'll have that again, pricing information.
And there are multiple ways of charging things.
And if you roll over the little indicator here, it says standard pricing.
If you charge the same price for each unit, that's exactly what I want.
But there are other ones as well.
Package pricing, for example, that would allow us to charge per 10 units and have graduated pricing
or different pricing depending upon the number of units.
But I'm going to go with standard pricing, which is very simple.
This is a recurring monthly bill.
I want people to be charged a certain amount of money.
I'm going to make it twenty dollars to twenty dollars.
There are twenty dollars Canadian every month and the billing period is monthly.
It's not metered billing you can charge by the minute, for example, for online services.
That's not appropriate for us.
So we can even put an image here if we want to.
But again, I'm not going to bother.
I will just save this product, the bronze widget plan.
And once it's saved, I got to put my password in here and fortunately I have software that does that
for me.
I have no idea what my straight password is continue.
And it's now been added, so you have lots of information about it here, and you can modify it as necessary
if you want to, but you can also copy it to live mode once you're ready to go.
But we're not going to do that.
We're going to work with test data.
So there's all our basic information.
I have one plan that I can actually sell as often as I want, and it has this idea for the plan right
here.
And make sure you make a note of that, because we'll be using it before too long.
All right.
Let's get started writing some code.