How to Retrieve a Customer — Stripe Connector for SSIS
Prerequisites
Before we begin, make sure the following prerequisites are met:
- SSIS designer installed. Sometimes it is referred as BIDS or SSDT (download it from Microsoft).
- Basic knowledge of SSIS package development using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services.
- SSIS PowerPack is installed (if you are new to SSIS PowerPack, then get started!).
Retrieve a Customer in SSIS
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Begin with opening Visual Studio and Create a New Project.
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Select Integration Service Project and in new project window set the appropriate name and location for project. And click OK.
In the new SSIS project screen you will find the following:
- SSIS ToolBox on left side bar
- Solution Explorer and Property Window on right bar
- Control flow, data flow, event Handlers, Package Explorer in tab windows
- Connection Manager Window in the bottom
Note: If you don't see ZappySys SSIS PowerPack Task or Components in SSIS Toolbox, please refer to this help link. -
Now, Drag and Drop SSIS Data Flow Task from SSIS Toolbox. Double click on the Data Flow Task to see Data Flow designer.
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From the SSIS toolbox drag and API Source (Predefined Templates) on the data flow designer surface, and double click on it to edit it:
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Select New Connection to create a new connection:
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Use a preinstalled Stripe Connector from Popular Connector List or press Search Online radio button to download Stripe Connector. Once downloaded simply use it in the configuration:
Stripe -
Now it's time to configure authentication. Firstly, configure authentication settings in Stripe service and then proceed by configuring API Connection Manager. Start by expanding an authentication type:
Stripe authentication
- Login into your Stripe account
- Go to https://dashboard.stripe.com/apikeys.
- Then create a Secret key.
- In the parameter 'Token' fill in newly created key.
API Connection Manager configuration
Just perform these simple steps to finish authentication configuration:
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Set Authentication Type to
Stripe [Http]
- Optional step. Modify API Base URL if needed (in most cases default will work).
- Fill in all the required parameters and set optional parameters if needed.
- Finally, hit OK button:
StripeStripe [Http]https://api.stripe.com/v1Required Parameters Token Fill-in the parameter... Optional Parameters RetryMode RetryWhenStatusCodeMatch RetryStatusCodeList 429 RetryCountMax 5 RetryMultiplyWaitTime True -
Select Customers table from the dropdown and hit Preview Data:
API Source - StripeThis connector support read/write operations for Stripe APIsStripeCustomersRequired Parameters Customer Id Fill-in the parameter... Optional Parameters ContineOn404Error True -
That's it! We are done! Just in a few clicks we configured the call to Stripe using Stripe Connector.
You can load the source data into your desired destination using the Upsert Destination , which supports SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Amazon Redshift. We also offer other destinations such as CSV , Excel , Azure Table , Salesforce , and more . You can check out our SSIS PowerPack Tasks and components for more options. (*loaded in Trash Destination)
More actions supported by Stripe Connector
Learn how to perform other actions directly in SSIS with these how-to guides:
- Create a Customer
- Create a Product
- Create an Invoice
- Create an Invoice Item
- Delete a Customer
- Delete a Draft Invoice
- Delete a Product
- Delete an Invoice Item
- Finalize an Invoice
- List All Customers
- List All Invoice Items
- List All Invoices
- List All Products
- List All Quotes
- List All Subscriptions
- List All Subscriptions Items
- Mark an Invoice As Uncollectible
- Pay an Invoice
- Retrieve a single Product
- Retrieve a single Subscription
- Retrieve an Invoice
- Retrieve an Invoice Item
- Retrieve an Invoice Line Items
- Retrieve an Upcoming Invoice
- Retrieve an Upcoming Invoice Line Items
- Send an Invoice For Manual Payment
- Test Connection
- Update a Customer
- Update a Product
- Update an Invoice
- Update an Invoice Item
- Void an Invoice
- Make Generic API Request
- Make Generic API Request (Bulk Write)