Stripe – Requirements to process charges for Indian merchants

Starting with November 2019, Stripe is available for Indian merchants in order to process charges related to the export of services.

But in order to process such charges, there are a few requirements:

• charge must be presented in a non-Indian Rupee (INR) currency
• customer must input a non-Indian billing address for services
• customer must pay with cards issued outside India

More info can be read about this on the Stripe Support website: https://support.stripe.com/questions/requirements-for-india-export-charges

Paid Member Subscriptions lets you select the currency that you want to charge your users in by going to Settings -> Payments -> Currency.

In order to satisfy the other requirements, a few changes to the default behavior of Paid Member Subscriptions are necessary:

1. Request Billing Details from the customer
2. Require the user to complete the First and Last Name fields from the form

Request Billing Details from the customer

In order to request Billing Details from the customer you need to install and activate either the Invoices or the Tax & EU VAT add-on.

Require the user to complete the First and Last Name fields from the form

By default, the First and Last Name fields from the form are not required. In order to make them required, you need to add the following snippet of custom code to your website:

add_filter( 'pms_register_form_label_first_name', 'pmsc_first_name_field_label');
function pmsc_first_name_field_label( $attributes ){
	return __( 'First Name *', 'paid-member-subscriptions' );
}

add_filter( 'pms_register_form_label_last_name', 'pmsc_last_name_field_label');
function pmsc_last_name_field_label( $attributes ){
	return __( 'Last Name *', 'paid-member-subscriptions' );
}

add_action( 'pms_register_form_validation', 'pmsc_first_last_validation' );
function pmsc_first_last_validation(){
	if( empty( $_POST['first_name'] ) )
		pms_errors()->add( 'first_name', __( 'This field is required.', 'paid-member-subscriptions' ) );

	if( empty( $_POST['last_name'] ) )
		pms_errors()->add( 'last_name', __( 'This field is required.', 'paid-member-subscriptions' ) );
}

You can download a small plugin containing this code from here. After downloading, you just need to install and activate it on your website.
The code can also be added inside the `functions.php` file from your child theme.

If you need help with any of this or have questions, don’t hesitate to contact our customer support.

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