Stripe Payment gateway I wants to use amount in decimal format

Question

I am implementing Stripe Payment gateway (php) in my website. I want to send a subscription amount in decimal form. For example I'd like to send 9.99 but it gives me an error that it is an invalid integer. Why doesn't this work?

Answer 1

All amounts sent to Stripe must be in integers, representing the lowest currency unit (e.g., cents). So your subscription amount would be 999.

Hope that helps, Larry

PS I work on Support at Stripe.

Answer 2

Amount that you send to Stripe must be in integer (you should send value in cents) but note there is issue with some currencies. See explanation here: https://stripe.com/docs/currencies#zero-decimal

I use next code for my payment module:

<?php

$currency = 'usd';
$amount = 17.24;

if(in_array($currency,['bif','clp','djf','gnf','jpy','kmf','krw']))
{                   
    $amount = number_format(ceil($amount) , 0, '', '');
}
else
{
    $amount = number_format(($amount*100) , 0, '', '');
}