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Connect Stripe: what to paste and what FoxPlug reads

Stripe is the payments platform where a maker takes card payments and runs subscriptions, invoices and refunds. FoxPlug reads it only when you press Check for what's new. What you give it: one-click Stripe sign-in (when switched on), or a pasted restricted key (rk followed by live) set to Read.

Where to find it: In FoxPlug open Settings, then Publishing & integrations, then the row "Stripe", and press How to connect next to Stripe. Faster: press / in Settings and type Stripe. Open it in FoxPlug

Steps

1. Open https://dashboard.stripe.com/apikeys (the in-app link opens the Stripe keys page).
2. Check you are in live mode, not a sandbox, otherwise you get a test key that sees no real payments.
3. Under Restricted keys press Create restricted key and name it FoxPlug.
4. Start with no permissions, then set to Read: Customers, Charges and Refunds, Subscriptions, Invoices, Events, Disputes, Products and Prices, Customer portal, Subscription schedules. Leave everything else on None and never choose Write.
5. Press Create key, confirm the code Stripe sends you, copy the key that starts rk followed by live (Stripe shows it once) and paste it into the Stripe box in FoxPlug. FoxPlug checks the key and refuses one that can change anything.
6. Or, where the panel shows it, press Connect with Stripe, sign in at Stripe and allow read-only access.
7. Press the connect button in FoxPlug. FoxPlug checks the key or sign-in straight away and tells you in plain words if it was refused.

Good to know

• What to give: one-click Stripe sign-in (when switched on), or a pasted restricted key (rk followed by live) set to Read. Give it read-only access.
• What FoxPlug looks at: Charges (first customer and paid-order count); Active subscriptions (count, monthly revenue, new in 30 days); Cancelled subscriptions (cancelled in the last 30 days); Past-due subscriptions (failed renewals); Where new customers are (country only).
• Everything FoxPlug reads from Stripe, and what it never reads, is on its integration page.
• Free tools for your Stripe numbers: the revenue leak scan (a read-only key you paste once and we forget, totals only), what failed payments cost you, revenue riding on expiring cards and what a win-back note could return.
• You can disconnect any time from the same place, and the stored key is deleted.

What it does not do

• Full card numbers. From a card the code reads only expiry month, expiry year and country.
• Anything with write power: a full secret key is refused, a key that can write is refused, and a test-mode key is refused.
• Test-mode objects: anything with livemode false is dropped before any number is made.
• Customer emails and names are not written to logs or URLs; they are stored for the maker only.
• A customer who disputed a charge is never contacted by win-back.

Related

• The Your connections card: what each state means
• The Check for what's new button
• Connect Vercel: what to paste and what FoxPlug reads
• Connect PostHog: what to paste and what FoxPlug reads

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