In this episode, we dive into how you can automatically create Stripe accounts for users when they register on your Laravel app. This is a key step if you want to use Stripe Connect, where each of your users needs their own Stripe account before you can onboard them for payments.
We start by updating the registration and onboarding flow—a quick fix to make sure only authenticated users can get to the onboarding controller. Next, we discuss leveraging Laravel's event listeners: specifically, using the event that's fired when a new user registers to kick off the creation of their Stripe account behind the scenes.
You'll see how to set up a listener called CreateStripeAccount using Artisan, and then wire this listener to the user registration event. Inside the listener, we connect to the Stripe API and create a "standard" account for the new user. Once Stripe responds with the new account ID, we save that ID to the user's record in the database.
To finish, we test out the whole process—registering a new user, checking the database, and confirming that the Stripe account ID is right where it should be. It's seamless from the user's perspective, but all the Stripe setup magic happens automatically in the background.