Does Stripe Checkout Support Free Plans?

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We're evaluating to use Stripe Checkout, and it seems that it always requires credit card info from the user (we don't want Stripe to require credit card info on its page). We want to provide a free trial, when it ends, we will ask for the credit card info. I've seen a question about adding a free $0 item to the plan, which Stripe does not support.

Is there any way that users select a paid plan (e.g. $20/month - 2 weeks trial period) and go to the Checkout page which does not ask for credit card info, then subscription and plan are created?

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With Stripe Checkout you can create subscriptions with free trials [1]. But, Checkout will collect a payment method upfront when the customer subscribes to the trial. When using Checkout, there are currently no options that would enable customers to subscribe on a free trial without them first having to provide a valid payment method.

Instead, you can do the flow you're describing with a more custom Stripe integration where you would do the following:

  1. Subscribe the customer on a free trial: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/trials
  2. If the customer chooses to continue after the trial, collect their payment details: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-and-reuse

Note that you can still use Stripe Checkout for Step #2, you would just need to create the subscription manually in this case.

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-subscription_data-trial_period_days

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