Laravel Cashier Stripe Multiple Products Invoice

Story

This was a hidden feature in Laravel cashier, I did submit a PR (#7865) to library documentation and it got merged so now it lives where it should be 🥳

This feature was added in this PR (#1213) so all the credit goes to driesvints.

Pre-requisites

1. Laravel with any kind of authentification mechanism (ex: Breeze)

2. Laravel-cashier (stripe)

3. Stripe account

4. This 🧠

Implementation

The method is `tabPrice` which allows you to add invoice items to the customer's "tab" (up to 250 items per invoice) and then invoice him, So with that, you will generate a detailed invoice that contains multiple products which is very useful if you are working with a shopping cart for example.

$user->tabPrice('price_mclaren_gtr', 1);
$user->tabPrice('price_mustang_shelby', 1);
$user->tabPrice('price_bugatti_chiron', 1);

// here you will charge the customer
$invoice = $user->invoice();

The `tabPrice` method works with pre-defined prices. This will provide you with better analytics and data in your Stripe dashboard about your sales by product.

You can also create prices on the fly likewise :

$price = $user->stripe()->prices->create([
            'currency' => 'USD',
            'product_data' => [
                'name' => 'Maclaren P1 GTR',
            ],
            'unit_amount' => 499,
 ]);

if you want to know the alternative way of doing this :

Cashier::stripe()->invoiceItems->create([
  'customer' => $user->stripe_id,
  'price' => 'price_mclaren_gtr',
]);

Cashier::stripe()->invoiceItems->create([
  'customer' => $user->stripe_id,
  'price' => 'price_mustang_shelby',
]);

Cashier::stripe()->invoiceItems->create([
  'customer' => $user->stripe_id,
  'price' => 'price_bugatti_chiron',
]);

$invoice = Cashier::stripe()->invoices->create([
  'customer' => $user->stripe_id,
]);


Cashier::stripe()->invoices->pay($invoice->id, []);

$invoice = $user->invoices()->first();

Well, it's quite long 😏.

Small tip: you can call the stripe() method on the user instance directly 😉.

$user->stripe()

If you did get to this extra mile and still want to see more, I got your back check the demo project on my GitHub Safemood.

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