Stripe, CC details storage, and automatic charging (questions)

[Eminos]

Hi!

 

I'm about to switch to Stripe for CC processing (using a Swedish provider, Payson, right now).

 

Stripe provides a lot of features and would seem to change my current workflow a lot.

 

I have a few questions.

 

1. Right now I have two types of services. Yearly web hosting subscriptions, but also web development work that I create manual invoices for. Is it possible to use automatic CC charging (via Stripe) for the web hosting subscriptions, BUT not for my manual web development invoices? How would I manage those two different types of services? I would not like to automatically charge my customers for web development because those invoices are of course quite a bit bigger than yearly web hosting, and it just doesn't feel right to automatically charge those sums.

 

As I understand it, if there is a valid CC stored for the customer (if the customer has paid via CC at some point) ALL future invoices will automatically be paid with those CC details, if the CC charge automation is setup.

 

2. Is there a way to let the customer NOT store theirs CC details when they're on the payment page? I know they can remove the card manually after payment, but I would like to provide a clear option for those that don't want to store their CC details and don't want automatic charging in the future.

 

3. I would also like to provide my customers to OPT IN for automatic CC charging. It seems that I can enable/disable auto CC processing for certain customers, but is it possible for THEM to change this?

 

4. I also wonder how the CC details are stored in my database? Is there a difference how they are stored if they are added via the Manage Credit Card page, or it the cliend adds the CC when paying an invoice? Is it stored in a safe enough way?

 

I hope that WHMCS can provide me with a good workflow for my needs.

 

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Edited June 1, 2017 by Eminos

[DeWebDude]

Giving you a quick answer, running out the door, but will hopefully give you some ideas.

I have been using strip for a few years, only just in the past week or so integrated with WHMCS.

Worked perfectly.

 

I know you can get an add-on module which would allow the user to use the credit card, but display an added credit card fee, allowing the user to pay the fee, or at that point mail in a check.

I'm guessing here this was about not looking 3% on your bigger invoices.

[Eminos]

Giving you a quick answer, running out the door, but will hopefully give you some ideas.

I have been using strip for a few years, only just in the past week or so integrated with WHMCS.

Worked perfectly.

 

I know you can get an add-on module which would allow the user to use the credit card, but display an added credit card fee, allowing the user to pay the fee, or at that point mail in a check.

I'm guessing here this was about not looking 3% on your bigger invoices.

 

Thanks for your answer, but that is actually not what I asked.

My main question was not about adding a fee on CC charges (that's illegal in Sweden btw), it's about automatically CC processing SOME invoices (the web hosting subscriptions), and NOT automatically CC processing others (the web development, manual invoices). Plus my other questions.