Set up your development environment

Install

From the command-line, use an install script or download and extract a versioned archive file for your operating system to install the CLI.

brew install stripe/stripe-cli/stripe

brew install stripe-cli

Authenticate

Login and authenticate your Stripe user Account to generate a set of restricted keys. To learn more, see Stripe CLI keys and permissions.

stripe login

Your pairing code is: enjoy-enough-outwit-win
This pairing code verifies your authentication with Stripe.
Press Enter to open the browser or visit https://dashboard.stripe.com/stripecli/confirm_auth?t=THQdJfL3x12udFkNorJL8OF1iFlN8Az1 (^C to quit)

Confirm setup

Now that you’ve installed the CLI, you can make a single API request to Create a product.

stripe products create \
--name="My First Product" \
--description="Created with the Stripe CLI"

Look for the product identifier (in id) in the response object. Save it for the next step.

If everything worked, the command-line displays the following response.

{
  "id": 
"prod_LTenIrmp8Q67sa",
  "object": "product",

Next, call Create a price to attach a price of 30 USD. Swap the placeholder in product with your product identifier (for example, prod_LTenIrmp8Q67sa).

stripe prices create \
  --unit-amount=3000 \
  --currency=usd \
  --product=
{{PRODUCT_ID}}

If everything worked, the command-line displays the following response.

{
  "id": 
"price_1KzlAMJJDeE9fu01WMJJr79o",
  "object": "price",

The latest version of the Stripe Node.js server-side SDK is v17.0.0. It supports Node.js versions 12+.

Check your Node version:

node --version

Initialize Node

npm init

Install the library

Install the library with npm, a package manager for Node:

npm install stripe --save

After you install the library with npm, the library is automatically added as a dependency in your project’s package.json file. For example:

{
  "name": "stripe-node-example",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "A Stripe demo",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "node ": "node create_price.js",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "stripe": "^17.0.0"
  }
}

Now that you have the Node.js SDK installed, you can create a subscription Product and attach a Price with a couple of API requests. The Node.js SDK returns promises which can be used as chainable callbacks. To demonstrate, we’re passing the product identifier returned in the Product response to create a Price in this example.

const stripe = require('stripe')('sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc');

stripe.products.create({
  name: 'Starter Subscription',
  description: '$12/Month subscription',
}).then(product => {
  stripe.prices.create({
    unit_amount: 1200,
    currency: 'usd',
    recurring: {
      interval: 'month',
    },
    product: product.id,
  }).then(price => {
    console.log('Success! Here is your starter subscription product id: ' + product.id);
    console.log('Success! Here is your starter subscription price id: ' + price.id);
  });
});

Save the file as create_price.js. From the command line, cd to the directory containing the file you just saved and run:

node create_price.js

If everything worked, the command line shows the following response. Save these identifiers so you can use them while building your integration.

Success! Here is your starter subscription product id: prod_0KxBDl589O8KAxCG1alJgiA6
Success! Here is your starter subscription price id: price_0KxBDm589O8KAxCGMgG7scjb