Managing Customers

With your custom PaystackCustomer model in place, you can now manage the relationship between your application's users and Paystack customers.

Creating a Paystack Customer

To create a customer on Paystack and link it to your local model, you can use the paystack()->customer()->create() method and then save the result to your database.

use App\Models\User;
use App\Models\PaystackCustomer;

$user = User::find(1);

// 1. Create Customer on Paystack
$response = paystack()->customer()->create([
    'email' => $user->email,
    'first_name' => 'Stephen',
    'last_name' => 'Asare',
    'phone' => '+233551234567'
]);

if ($response['status']) {
    // 2. Save to your local database
    $paystackCustomer = PaystackCustomer::create([
        'billable_id' => $user->id,
        'billable_type' => get_class($user),
        'paystack_id' => $response['data']['customer_code'],
        'email' => $response['data']['email']
    ]);

    echo "Customer created: " . $paystackCustomer->paystack_id;
}

Updating a Customer

If a user updates their profile in your application, you might want to sync those changes to Paystack.

$user = User::find(1);
$paystackId = $user->paystackCustomer->paystack_id;

// 1. Update on Paystack
paystack()->customer()->update($paystackId, [
    'first_name' => 'New Name',
    'phone' => '+233559876543'
]);

// 2. Update local record if necessary (e.g. email changed)
$user->paystackCustomer->update([
    'email' => '[email protected]'
]);

Fetching Customer Details

You can retrieve the full customer object from Paystack using the ID stored in your database.

$user = User::find(1);

if ($user->paystackCustomer) {
    $details = paystack()->customer()->fetch($user->paystackCustomer->paystack_id);

    // Access Paystack data
    // $details['data']['metadata'], etc.
}

Use Case: Syncing Existing Users

If you have existing users and want to migrate them to Paystack, you can run a script to create them all.

User::chunk(100, function ($users) {
    foreach ($users as $user) {
        if (!$user->paystackCustomer) {
            try {
                $response = paystack()->customer()->create(['email' => $user->email]);

                $user->paystackCustomer()->create([
                    'paystack_id' => $response['data']['customer_code'],
                    'email' => $response['data']['email']
                ]);
            } catch (\Exception $e) {
                // Log error
            }
        }
    }
});