Manage subscriptions and invoices from Salesforce using Stripe API’s and Webhooks.

Incorporating Stripe API’s and Webhooks within Salesforce empowers businesses to efficiently handle subscription management and invoice processes. Leveraging the capabilities of Stripe’s robust APIs, companies can seamlessly integrate subscription features directly into Salesforce. This integration facilitates streamlined subscription handling, enabling users to manage customer subscriptions, create invoices, and handle payments within the Salesforce environment. By leveraging the power of Stripe’s APIs and Webhooks, organizations can ensure a smoother subscription experience for their customers while efficiently managing invoicing procedures directly through the Salesforce platform. Streamline and simplify your subscription management with Stripe, ensuring effortless control over your payment processes and subscription lifecycles.

While learning about Stripe /Salesforce integration and implementing connectivity between the two systems for customers, payment methods and payments. I went ahead and explored subscriptions, invoicing as subscription has become an integral part of payment ecosystem. I have also attached the link to my GIT for reference to code which includes webhooks and Rest API’s for subscription and invoicing.

Some Key use cases for Salesforce Stripe integration for subscription and invoice:

Bidirectional sync for subscriptions between Salesforce and Stripe:

2. Once Stripe is connected, create a custom object called subscription, which will be related to Account(customer) with some basic fields like start date, end date, stripe subscription/schedule id.

3. Configure products with prices in Stripe as well as Salesforce as they are required for subscription.

4. Using Triggers we can sync call the stripe schedule api end point, which will create a schedule in Stripe. Please note I would suggest going for a schedule rather than subscription API, as schedule can be modified. Refer to the code in my GIT repo below for schedule subscription api.

Note: For subscriptions, products need to be configured in stripe.

4. Every month when a subscription is processed invoice and payment records are created which can be synced back to salesforce using webhooks.

What are Webhooks?

Webhooks are one of a few ways web applications can communicate with each other. It allows you to send real-time data transfer from one application to another whenever a given event occurs.

Steps to configure webhooks in Stripe:

3. click on select events to add the events on which webhook should fire.

4. After configuration, whenever an event occurs, you will receive the payload on the configured endpoint.