Stripe Integration with Laravel

15 January 2021

Stripe is a payment gateway that offers easy and most efficient  ways to process payments through online, leading technology, and plenty of ecommerce tools to make things simple for ecommerce store owners trying to run a business and make money. It has several advantages comparing to other payment gateways:

1. Stripe has a cloud-based infrastructure designed for reliability, scalability and security.
2. Stripe charges a low fee for successful payments as compared to other payment gateways.
3. Stripe offers a highly optimized security-focused program that is designed to allow users to collect credit card information without storing anything on the servers.
4. Stripe offers the best payment processing APIs. Which includes a simple interface, great documentation and overall ease-of-use.
5. There is no setup cost for registering on Stripe and it enables users to stay on your site when making a payment, instead of being redirected to another site.

Prerequisites

For integration of stripe we will need the following:

• Laravel
• PHP 7.1 or more
• Laravel server to host the application

Create Stripe Account

The first step involves the creation of a stripe account on the website. Once we complete the registration. We will get the test account credentials. Which will consist of the client Id and client secret key. We will then use this client id and client secret key in our application.We can register on stripe through this link: https://dashboard.stripe.com/register

Stripe Configuration With Laravel

Now we need to configure the laravel with stripe. We will add the stripe package to our composer file. The package name is:

composer require stripe/stripe-php

Once the package is installed then we need to update the package.json with the following command:

cartalyst/stripe-laravel: 7.0.*

Setup App Service Provider For Laravel Stripe Integration

Now we need to register the stripe package in the laravel provider. For this we need to update the config/app.php file

‘providers’ => [

Stripe\Laravel\StripeServiceProvider::class],

‘aliases’ => [

‘Stripe’ => Stripe\Laravel\Facades\Stripe::class]

Set Up Private And Secret Credentials

We need to add the stripe key and secret in our environment file:

STRIPE_KEY = pk_test_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
STRIPE_SECRET = sk_test_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

We will get this stripe credentials i.e. stripe key and secret from the stripe account that we have created.

To save the credentials we  have added in the environment files we need to run the following command:

php artisan config:cache

Create Migrations

We can create a table for stripe customers to save the customer payment details with the timestamp. Command to create the migration is:

php artisan make:migration create_customer_stripe_payment_table

Setup Stripe Payment Controller

We need to create the payment controller to setup the data and configure the methods:

php artisan make:controller StripeController

After creating the controller we build the actual logic for stripe payment in this controller:

In this way we can add the customer data and redirect the user to the official stripe page using the Stripe key and secret.

Route Call

We also need to create the route:

Route::post('/charge', 'StripeController@charge');

Conclusion

This is the overview of how to integrate the stripe with laravel. We can have many other payment gateways to be integrated such as paypal, google pay, square etc. But as compared to the other payment gateways stripe is user friendly and free of cost to be used. It is much more secure than other payment gateways.