first attempt at refatoring the user creating to order confirmaton page

membership/models.py

@@ -176,6 +176,25 @@ class StripeCustomer(models.Model):
     def __str__(self):
         return "%s - %s" % (self.stripe_id, self.user.email)
 
+    @classmethod
+    def create_stripe_api_customer(cls, email=None, token=None, customer_name=None):
+        """
+            This method creates a Stripe API customer with the given
+            email, token and customer_name. This is different from 
+            get_or_create method below in that it does not create a 
+            CustomUser and associate the customer created in stripe 
+            with it, while get_or_create does that before creating the
+            stripe user.
+        """
+        stripe_utils = StripeUtils()
+        stripe_data = stripe_utils.create_customer(token, email, customer_name)
+        if stripe_data.get('response_object'):
+            stripe_cus_id = stripe_data.get('response_object').get('id')
+            return stripe_cus_id
+        else:
+            return None
+
+
     @classmethod
     def get_or_create(cls, email=None, token=None):
         """
@@ -195,7 +214,6 @@ class StripeCustomer(models.Model):
 
         except StripeCustomer.DoesNotExist:
             user = CustomUser.objects.get(email=email)
-
             stripe_utils = StripeUtils()
             stripe_data = stripe_utils.create_customer(token, email, user.name)
             if stripe_data.get('response_object'):