Stripe Charge Fee API & email service.

Tests:

See below before pressing that juicy button.

Do you have trouble balancing your accounts because of discrepancies caused by the fee's collected by stripe? Well, here may lie the solution.

This small stand alone api built on restify can be run for free on heroku or a similar service, and uses node.js (/ io.js) to run. Dead simple to deploy, the service recieves charge notifications from stripe and stores the fee's associated with those charges in a redis store. It then collects them on a weekly schedule and sends them formatted as an email.

Requirements:

• A Sendgrid account - this is what we use to send the emails within the application. You'll need to provide the account name and key so the app can send emails on it's own.
• A stripe account, and knowledge of how to set up webhooks, as well as access to your api keys.
• for the auto-deply only: A heroku account

Here's how to set it up (I'll be using heroku as the example service):

Press the button up above for a super easy setup. The only steps you need to take is #5 & #6

1. Download / clone the repo to where ever you'd like.
2. Deploy the app to heroku. This requires a heroku account and an app set up in your dashboard, and the heroku toolbelt application installed.
3. Setup the environment variables on heroku under the application settings. A sample list is provided in app.json.
4. Install the redis cloud addon. This allows the service to store transactions as it recieves them and serve them at a later date.
5. Add the scheduler addon and set it to hit node s-task daily at a time of your choice.
6. Setup a Stripe webhook through their UI to send the app 'successful charge' events.
7. Scale the heroku web dyno's from 0 to 1 to start the app.
8. Enjoy!

The email included in the application at the moment is an Autovance templated handlebars file that you are welcome to use. You are welcome to fork the repo and change it if you like, and we might move towards a hosted email template in the future to make it easy. Please be aware that the templated variables included should stay the same for the template to work as it does right now.

If you have any troubles or questions, send me a ping @forstermatth, if you run into any bugs or have a feature request, open up an issue on this page (github)!

Development / Testing

To run any tests / develop within this repo you need:

• node.js or equivalent
• redis

Run npm install, npm install mocha -g and mocha tests to verify your environment.

Fork the repo, make pull requests and we will do our best to include your changes!