When a user completes stripe checkout does it create a new user?

[jzuilkowski]

I am trying to create a sign up flow but I’m not sure if the stripe checkout will create a new user or not and I can’t tell based on any of the help documentation.

My product relies on users having one of a few subscriptions but I can’t have a situation where a user is subscribed without also having an account as that would be a very poor experience.

Because the stripe checkout does not ask the user to put a password in I am assuming no user is created. Thus I need to have the user first create their user then redirect to the stripe checkout.

Can anyone confirm this is the case? Or if there’s a way to create a new user using stripe checkout that I missed?

[rrthegefsrht]

As a best practice, have users sign for a free account first, then after sign-up direct them to pricing/payment page to purchase Stripe subscription.

When done in this order, you ensure there’s an existing account in Softr for Stripe to link subscription information to.

[jzuilkowski]

That’s great to know. Ultimately what I did was create a user group for users without a subscription and set the home page to a limited view that reinforces the user to sign up for a subscription.

Thanks for the guidance here. When I’m allowed to share more than one image i’ll follow up with the full description of what I implemented. Would love feedback!

[rrthegefsrht]

A user group for users without a subscription is the way to go for sure.

[Ben]

Add User With Checkout Blocks

Add users to Softr’s Users section if they checkout before signing up. Currently users must already be signed up, typically with a sign up block, for their Stripe email to be mapped to a User in Softr’s Users table. The user journey would be much simpler if they didn’t have to sign up, then enter their name and email address again in a checkout block for this to happen. Perhaps add optional checkout block fields that capture users info like sign up blocks do. Maybe recaptcha as well. This w…

[JimGo]

Add User With Checkout Blocks

Here is something that I found in exploring this more deeply. I have a preference for a sign-up flow with two card options in a static Grid Pricing Block: ‘Sign up for Free’ and ‘Subscribe Now’. I was concerned about the same problem, @Ben, and in having worked previously to tie product purchases to Softr’s Stripe integrated Subscription feature I realized that the primary key for the Softr Stripe integration link between the Softr user and a Stripe account is the user email address, not the S…

You can use Zapier or Make to add the user back into your local Users table and Softr will sync this back into the App Users table and send the user an invitation email. There are some settings you need to toggle to get this to work properly, but there is a path to do what you want with third party automations.