Development environment quickstart in Go

The Stripe CLI provides command-line access to many common tasks like calling Stripe APIs, testing your webhooks integration, and creating an application.

1. From the command-line, use an install script or download and extract a versioned archive file for your operating system to install the CLI.

brew install stripe/stripe-cli/stripe

1. Login and authenticate your Stripe user Account to generate a set of restricted keys. To learn more, see Stripe CLI keys and permissions.

stripe login

Your pairing code is: enjoy-enough-outwit-win
This pairing code verifies your authentication with Stripe.
Press Enter to open the browser or visit https://dashboard.stripe.com/stripecli/confirm_auth?t=THQdJfL3x12udFkNorJL8OF1iFlN8Az1 (^C to quit)

1. Now that you’ve installed the CLI, you can make a single API request to Create a product.

stripe products create \
--name="My First Product" \
--description="Created with the Stripe CLI"

1. Look for the product identifier (in id) in the response object. Save it for the next step.

If everything worked, the command-line displays the following response.

{
  "id": 
"prod_LTenIrmp8Q67sa",
  "object": "product",

1. Next, call Create a price to attach a price of 30 USD. Swap the placeholder in product with your product identifier (for example, prod_LTenIrmp8Q67sa).

stripe prices create \
  --unit-amount=3000 \
  --currency=usd \
  --product=
"{{PRODUCT_ID}}"

If everything worked, the command-line displays the following response.

{
  "id": 
"price_1KzlAMJJDeE9fu01WMJJr79o",
  "object": "price",

We recommend managing third-party dependencies using Go modules, which allows you to add new libraries and include them in your Go projects. To initialize a project and create a go.mod file for your dependencies:

Initialize Go

go mod init

The Stripe Go SDK provides access to Stripe APIs from applications written in Go. The SDK supports accessing Stripe APIs in a way that significantly reduces the boilerplate code you have to write. Stripe’s Go server-side SDK supports all Go versions.

Install the library

1. We recommend installing the library with Go modules, a package manager for Go::

go get github.com/stripe/stripe-go/v72

Now that you have the Go SDK installed, you can create a subscription Product and attach a Price with a couple API requests. We’re using the product identifier returned in the response to create the price in this example.

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "github.com/stripe/stripe-go/v72"
  "github.com/stripe/stripe-go/v72/product"
  "github.com/stripe/stripe-go/v72/price"
)

func main() {
  stripe.Key = "sk_test_Hrs6SAopgFPF0bZXSN3f6ELN"

	product_params := &stripe.ProductParams{
		Name:        stripe.String("Starter Subscription"),
		Description: stripe.String("$12/Month subscription"),
	}
	starter_product, _ := product.New(product_params)

	price_params := &stripe.PriceParams{
		Currency: stripe.String(string(stripe.CurrencyUSD)),
		Product:  stripe.String(starter_product.ID),
		Recurring: &stripe.PriceRecurringParams{
			Interval: stripe.String(string(stripe.PriceRecurringIntervalMonth)),
		},
		UnitAmount: stripe.Int64(12000),
	}
	starter_price, _ := price.New(price_params)

	fmt.Println("Success! Here is your starter subscription product id: " + starter_product.ID)
	fmt.Println("Success! Here is your starter subscription price id: " + starter_price.ID)
}

1. Save the file as create_price.go. From the command-line, cd to the directory containing the file you just saved then run:

go run create_price.go

If everything worked, the command-line shows the following response. Save these identifiers so you can use them while building your integration.

Success! Here is your starter subscription product id: price_0KxBDl589O8KAxCG1alJgiA6
Success! Here is your starter subscription price id: price_0KxBDm589O8KAxCGMgG7scjb