Recently Stripe reached out for a meeting to sit down and talk about Stripe Identity, how users are using the plugin, and the feedback Iāve heard. Following a great conversation with their Identity Engineer, it was asked to update the plugin to the newer stripe version of identity to v5.
Iāve also become a Stripe Partner, so if youāre someone who is curious and looks at the āplugin codeā, youāll see a āuser-agentā in the header of the api calls. This is simply for tracking purposes for Stripe, and doesnāt collect any personal data.
Stripe recommends using webhooks to watch for the status of the verification, as the verification process for documents can take anywhere between 1-3 minutes. More info here on that.
If youāve used the previous plugin in the past, and have feedback, please reach out! Feedback on this new one is also appreciated.
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Please note: the old plugin has been renamed with ādeprecatedā in the title. This will allow users who have the previous plugin to migrate to the new one, without interrupting their apps by just deleting the plugin.
Good question. I had never heard of Persona, but reading over their docs, itās very similar. Iām sure Persona has a few more bells and whistles than what Iāve read so far in comparison to Stripe.
Comparing the two, both have a few options for initializing. (Modal and redirect)
Both check documents (passport, drivers license, selfie checks, etc)
Very cool! Iāve used Persona a couple times but hadnāt heard of Stripe verification so was curious. Looks like the Stripes is hosted on a stripe page? That would be a bit simpler than Persona
Nice! Yeah itās their own Stripe hosted page. I might work on the modal portion in the future, but wanted to just get the update out there in the mean time.
We were going to be using TrustID but I stumbled upon your plugin and this seems the way to go. Iām running into an issue around authentication/API key though:
The service Stripe Identity API v2 - Create a VerificationSession with Selfie Check just returned an error (HTTP 401). Please contact the plugin author directly for feedback.
You did not provide an API key. You need to provide your API key in the Authorization header, using Bearer auth
Iāve triple-checked the live and test API is entered from Stripe. Do you have any tips to help nudge me along?
Thank you! Here are screenshots for the plugin setup, workflow (triggered by a button press - only a quick test workflow) and the Stripe API test page.
Ah! How did I miss that!? Thank you, that has it working. Iām not going to sort Webhooks to update Bubble (or poke Bubble when thereās an update) to get the status.
I canāt seem to get the webhook to work either. Iām trying in Test Mode, when Bubble takes me to the Verification page I chose Verified and it shows in Stripe as verified but the webhook is not triggered. Bubble API is enabled with the table selected. The API endpoint is setup and the config of this worked when I set it up as I received the JSON response. It just doesnāt appear to be triggered by Stripe. Maybe Iām being impatient and theyāre slower to trigger in test?
I had the same question at first, too. Stripe says the Verification Checks are asynchronous, which means that verification results arenāt immediately available. Can take up to 3 mins for the webhook to respond with the results, depending on a wide range of parameters (eg. country, type of doc, etc.)
In Bubble, for the Backend API, choose the Detect Request Data. Ensure when youāre setting up your webhook in Stripe, that you include the āinitializeā url, send a test, then remove the āinitializeā from the url from stripe.
Yeah, thatās what I did (re Detect Request Data, with initialize and then remove). Frustrating as it is so close! Thanks for confirming that Iām not going mad. Iāll leave it for now and see if it springs into life when Iām not looking.
Do you know how I can use the Stripe CLI to set up the webhook? Stripe has temporarily disabled [for the past month] the ability to easily send test data to initialize a webhook.
Also, do you know how I can retrieve the selfie from the ID verification process? I see that it is stored in Stripe, but I need to put it in the Bubble database. The reason being that my app has to do bars/nightclub lines, so I want to show the selfie the user took to be on the screen when the user shows their ticket to get in, that way the bouncer can verify the selfie matches the person with the phone in their hand, just in case anyone tries to be smart and log in to their friendās account that is 21+.
@lantzgould I have your plugin working perfectly but does your plugin have the ability to retrieve the verification results, i.e Name and address. If not, any recommendation on getting it?
, so if youāre someone who is curious and looks at the āplugin codeā, youāll see a āuser-agentā in the header of the api calls. This is simply for tracking purposes for Stripe, and doesnāt collect any personal data.
