Cashier-stripe: User is already a Stripe customer with ID, but it's been deleted

[dimitribocquet]

• Cashier Version: 11.2.0
• Laravel Version: 7.6.1
• PHP Version: 7.4.3
• Database Driver & Version: MySQL 5.5.5-10.4.11 MariaDB

Description:

I'm testing Cashier with Stripe to manage plans with subscriptions, but I have an issue when I want to subscribe to a plan:

Stripe HTML code (Angular) :

this.stripe.confirmCardSetup(
    this.intentToken.client_secret, {
        payment_method: {
            card: this.card,
            billing_details: {
                name: name
            }
        }
    }
).then((result) => {
    if(!result.error) {
        const payment_method = result.setupIntent.payment_method

        return this.http.post('/user/subscription', {
            payment_method: payment_method,
            plan: 'monthly',
        }).toPromise()
    }
})

Laravel API /user/subscription endpoint:

    public function store(StoreSubscription $request)
    {
        $user = Auth::user();

        $paymentMethod = $request->input('payment_method');
        $planId = $request->input('plan');

        $subscription = $user->newSubscription('premium', $planId)->create($paymentMethod);

        return $subscription;
    }

Here I have a first error:

Trying to get property 'default_payment_method' of non-object

So I tried to get the Stripe Customer by simply call $user->createAsStripeCustomer(), and then I got this error:

User is already a Stripe customer with ID cus_XXX.

The issue is this customer has been deleted from the Stripe Dashboard, and I can't recreate it. Cashier seems to find it, even if it's a deleted customer.

[dimitribocquet]

Raaah... 🤦🏻‍♂️

Just after I posted it I found out the webhook had some errors, I resend them and now it's working... Sorry!

[jtomek]

Beware that if you delete the stripe_id manually from the database, there is a difference between setting it to EMTPY or NULL. If you just delete it, the DB will set it to EMPTY, and Cashier will request Stripe details with the following payload {customer: "", ...} which results in the following error: 'User is already a Stripe customer with ID .'

Notice the ID and a space after it, that's where the Stripe ID would normally go.