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by user3487 4202 days ago
Thank you for the answer!

Mr. @davismwfl gave me some really good directions on my problem in his answers, do you agree on that way? Is there a reason you suggest managing the subscriptions directly in the app instead of in Stripe? And does it count as "my app" if I manage it in a separate service, as @davismwfl solution?

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Codegeek is right on with this, the description I gave is in line with the same thing he is stating. Our data store is mongo so we use documents for the subscription details but if I was in an rdbms it would likely be a key/value pair as described.

The detail about storing all your subscription details locally is valid. We do it but also put the details in Stripe as that is what enables the recurring billing. That is also what I was pointing out in the web hooks as we store all the Stripe history from the web hooks. Works great.