stripe_migrate_customer

Purpose: Migrating customer from one stripe account to another with credit card details. For sake of description, we will call the 2 accounts "From_Stripe" and "To_Stripe". So we are going to take customer from the "From_Stripe" account and import it into "To_Stripe" account. 

You need to first connect the 2 stripe accounts. 

Step 1: To connect the 2 accounts, Create a "Connect App" first in the "From_Stripe" account. Once created, it will have the client id which is 'ca_xxxxx'

Step 2: Make sure you now login to "To_Stripe" account in your browser. Then run the following URL
https://connect.stripe.com/oauth/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=ca_xxxxxx&scope=read_write

Step 3: You will get the ACCESS_TOKEN returned to you when you run the above url. Note this ACCESS_TOKEN down. it will be something like 'sk_live_xxxxxxxx' just like a secret key

Step 4: Now you can run the following script (I am using python but use any from stripe's API)

import stripe

# Get the Customer id from the "From_Stripe" account
CUST_ID='cus_xxxxxxxx'

# Access token below is the one we got earlier when we established connect linkage between the 2 accounts
ACCESS_TOKEN = 'sk_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

# Get the card id from the "From_Stripe" account
CARD_ID='card_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

# Create a Token from the existing customer on the application's account
card_token = stripe.Token.create(customer=CUST_ID,card=CARD_ID,api_key=ACCESS_TOKEN)

Step 5: Finally, run the following command to create a new customer in the "To_Stripe" account which will be using the token created above and hence essentially importing the customer from "From_Stripe" account

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers -u ACCESS_TOKEN -d "description=My Customer" -d card=card_token

You are done. the customer should be successfully imported into the new account from the old account.