Integrating Stripe Into A One-Product Django Python Shop
Start by creating a Stripe account. For now, you don’t really need to activate your account. You can just work in test mode, which will prevent you from making real payments while testing. Go to the API keys page and retrieve the publishable and secret keys. Save them in your project environment variables (STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY and STRIPE_SECRET_KEY). We will use these keys to authenticate your Stripe requests.
Create a new product on the products page. Fill out the details and set the payment type to one-off. Your product should look something like this:
Once you press Add product, you should be able to see your product on the product list. If you click on it and scroll down to the Pricing section, you can find the API ID for the price item you created — it should be something like price_3ODP5…. Save it in an environment variable (STRIPE_PRICE_ID): you will need this when creating the Stripe checkout session.
We need to create a webhook endpoint for Stripe to call when a payment completes. In the webhooks page, choose to test in the local environment. This will allow you to forward the request to a local URL, like http://127.0.0.1:8000. Start by downloading the Stripe CLI. Then, you can:
