Cookbook

This is a list of handy recipes that fall outside the domain of normal usage.

Customer User Model has_active_subscription property

Very useful for working inside of templates or other places where you need to check the subscription status repeatedly. The cached_property decorator caches the result of has_active_subscription for a object instance, optimizing it for reuse.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
from django.db import models
from django.utils.functional import cached_property

from djstripe.utils import subscriber_has_active_subscription


class User(AbstractUser):

    """ Custom fields go here """

    def __str__(self):
        return self.username

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.username

    @cached_property
    def has_active_subscription(self):
        """Checks if a user has an active subscription."""
        return subscriber_has_active_subscription(self)

Usage:

<ul class="actions">
<h2>{{ object }}</h2>
<!-- first use of request.user.has_active_subscription -->
{% if request.user.has_active_subscription %}
    <p>
        <small>
            <a href="{% url 'things:update' %}">edit</a>
        </small>
    </p>
{% endif %}
<p>{{ object.description }}</p>

<!-- second use of request.user.has_active_subscription -->
{% if request.user.has_active_subscription %}
    <li>
        <a href="{% url 'places:create' %}">Add Place</a>
        <a href="{% url 'places:list' %}">View Places</a>
    </li>
{% endif %}
</ul>

Making individual purchases

On the subscriber’s customer object, use the charge method to generate a Stripe charge. In this example, we’re using the user with ID=1 as the subscriber.

from decimal import Decimal

from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model

from djstripe.models import Customer


user = get_user_model().objects.get(id=1)

customer, created = Customer.get_or_create(subscriber=user)

amount = Decimal(10.00)
customer.charge(amount)

Source code for the Customer.charge method is at https://github.com/dj-stripe/dj-stripe/blob/master/djstripe/models.py

REST API

The subscriptions can be accessed through a REST API. Make sure you have Django Rest Framework installed (https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework).

The REST API endpoints require an authenticated user. GET will provide the current subscription of the user. POST will create a new current subscription. DELETE will cancel the current subscription, based on the settings.

• /subscription/ (GET)

  • input

    • None

  • output (200)

    • id (int)
    • created (date)
    • modified (date)
    • plan (string)
    • quantity (int)
    • start (date)
    • status (string)
    • cancel_at_period_end (boolean)
    • canceled_at (date)
    • current_period_end (date)
    • current_period_start (date)
    • ended_at (date)
    • trial_end (date)
    • trial_start (date)
    • amount (float)
    • customer (int)

• /subscription/ (POST)

  • input

    • stripe_token (string)
    • plan (string)
    • charge_immediately (boolean, optional) - Does not send an invoice to the Customer immediately

  • output (201)

    • stripe_token (string)
    • plan (string)

• /subscription/ (DELETE)

  • input

    • None

  • Output (204)

    • None