A server-side complement to Stripe Checkout
levity/donate is a simple, mobile-friendly web page for helping nonprofits accept donations. It accepts credit cards with Stripe Checkout, but Stripe only provides the in-browser experience; some server-side component has to take the credit card token and make the charge. This is that component.
After signing up for Heroku and installing Heroku Toolbelt, run the commands below to set up the server, replacing [your secret key] below with your Stripe secret key.
git clone git@github.com:levity/striper
cd striper
heroku apps:create
heroku config:set STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=[your secret key]
git push heroku master
The output of the commands above will include something like:
Creating salty-stream-8518... done, stack is cedar
http://salty-stream-8518.herokuapp.com/ | git@heroku.com:salty-stream-8518.git
Take the address shown (e.g. http://salty-stream-8518.herokuapp.com/) and set it as the value of stripeServerUrl at the beginning of main.js in your levity/donate code.