In this episode, we focus on something super important for anyone using Stripe for their app: keeping your customer details in sync between your app and Stripe. Picture this—you’ve got a profile page, the user updates their email address, and now your app has the right info... but Stripe doesn’t (yet!). That can lead to trouble if you rely on Stripe for things like receipts, email notifications, or tax information.
We walk through the process of updating user details and making sure those changes automatically get reflected in Stripe whenever the user updates their profile. The magic happens with an Eloquent observer—we set it up so that whenever a user's details are changed in your app, the observer checks if they’re a Stripe customer (i.e., they have a Stripe ID), and if so, calls syncStripeCustomerDetails
. This handy method will update the relevant info like email, name, phone, and even address on the Stripe side, ensuring everything’s always up-to-date.
You'll see how to customize the data that’s sent to Stripe (for example, if you want to include address details), and how to hook up your user model with the observer, so these syncs happen automatically. At the end, we do a test update on the profile and check that everything reflects correctly in Stripe. It's a practical workflow you'll want in any real-world subscription or billing setup!