Stripe charge multiple times

Question

Using Stripe.js, I get a card token that I can then use to charge via:

Stripe::Charge.create(
  :amount => 400,
  :currency => "usd",
  :card => "tok_103rC02eZvKYlo2C2RD5docg", # obtained with Stripe.js,
  :metadata => {'order_id' => '6735'}
)

Can I use the same card token multiple times to charge the customer or is it 1 token/charge and any subsequent charge, I will have to grab a new token?

Answer 1

Good question! When you use the token in that manner, it's immediately consumed, so it can't be used again. However, you can instead provide that token as the card argument when creating a Customer object in Stripe. Then you can perform multiple charges against that Customer.

• https://stripe.com/docs/api#create_customer

Hope that helps. Larry

PS I work on Support at Stripe.