Creating Charges

[ask-joe]

Hi sorry, I'm very New to this How do I create/ add a charges on the form?

Stripe shows a way how to do it, but i don't.

// Set your secret key: remember to change this to your live secret key in production
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
var stripe = require("stripe")("sk_test_A8rby2nqvlUtn6Ze1EEKeTLR");

// Get the credit card details submitted by the form
var token = request.body.stripeToken; // Using Express

// Create a charge: this will charge the user's card
var charge = stripe.charges.create({
  amount: 1000, // Amount in cents
  currency: "eur",
  source: token,
  description: "Example charge"
}, function(err, charge) {
  if (err && err.type === 'StripeCardError') {
    // The card has been declined
  }
});

[tucoinfo]

One thing is for sure, you should not do this "on the form" (client side), only on your back-end. Stripe auto-generates snippets for you in common programming languages in their docs section. I would go with that.

Any snippet using the secret key (sk_) is only for back-end use. That's why you also have a publishable (public) key (pk_) that only serves in getting a token for a card. So it cannot compromise your account in any way.