Switching to Discourse Subscriptions from WordPress Subscriptions

[justin (Justin DiRose)]

@omarfilip

As the Discourse Subscriptions plugin matures I want to start planning for moving my existing memberships from WooCommerce Subscriptions to Discourse Subscriptions

Thrilled to see that you’re doing this.

@omarfilip

(1) Creating subscriptions in Stripe

It looks like creating the subscriptions in Stripe for existing users is a manual process at the moment. My members are already in Stripe, so the workflow would look something like this:

Yeah this isn’t something the plugin will be able to help with, however, you might be able to use the Stripe API to automate some of this if you have any programming skills. If not, the manual method might be the only way to go.

@omarfilip

I’m stuck on figuring out if #2 can be done and would love to hear if anyone has made this switch.

Can the rake task rake subscriptions:import be expanded or another task added to also import and link user subscriptions?

Just so I’m clear on your problem: you’ve created the subscriptions in Stripe and you want to backfill the access in Discourse? Is that correct?

I think there should be a way to do this via the rake task, but it’s not something I’m going to be able to tackle soon unfortunately. It would be pr-welcome though You’d have to create a DiscourseSubscriptions::Customer record with all the appropriate information and then add the user to the group.

You could even run this manually from console, too:

DiscourseSubscriptions::Customer.create(
    user_id: <user id>,
    customer_id: <stripe customer id>
    product_id: <stripe product id>
  )