Stripe: Allow subscription without payment method

Question

We're using stripe as a payment gateway.

I'm trying to subscribe a customer to a plan. This plan has a 30 days trial period. So, we're delaying customer adds a source (payment method) details on its profile.

Nevertheless, when I'm trying to subscribe it to a plan, stripe is getting me this message:

This customer has no attached payment source.

Is there any way to allow customer has no payment sources along trial period?

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem as @Jordi. My plan had a default trial period, but I was still getting the error mentioned in the question.

Instead of setting trial_end as @Ywain suggests, I set trial_from_plan to true when creating the subscription. That way I didn't have to set and/or calculate the length of the trial in my API call.