Strapi 5 Plugin for Creem

A Strapi 5 plugin to manage Creem products and subscriptions from the admin panel, and to offer a simple front-end checkout using a small JavaScript snippet (content API).

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Environment variables (.env)
• Webhooks (signature verification)
• Configuration (admin)
• Managing products
• Embed checkout button (snippet)
• License

Installation

1. Add the plugin to your Strapi project:

npm i strapi5-plugin-for-creem

2. Restart Strapi:

npm run develop

Environment variables (.env)

The plugin talks to Creem's REST API with an API key (x-api-key header) and verifies webhook signatures using HMAC-SHA256.

Required (per environment you use)

You only need the key for the environment(s) you actually use. The admin Settings screen reflects which keys are present.

Webhooks (optional but recommended for event forwarding)

Example .env in your Strapi project

# Creem API (use test and/or production depending on your setup)
STRAPI_CREEM_TEST_API_KEY="creem_test_..."
STRAPI_CREEM_API_KEY="creem_..."

# Webhook verification (signing secret from Creem dashboard)
STRAPI_CREEM_WEBHOOK_SECRET="..."

Webhooks (signature verification)

The plugin receives Creem webhook events, verifies the creem-signature header (HMAC-SHA256), and optionally forwards the parsed JSON payload to your own URL (configured in admin as Webhook forward URL).

The plugin does not implement your business logic for each event type. It authenticates the request and can forward the parsed event to your API.

See the Creem webhooks guide for supported events (checkout.completed, subscription.*, refund.created, etc.).

Webhook endpoint URL

When you register the webhook in Creem, use a public HTTPS URL:

https://your-deployed-strapi-instance.com/api/strapi5-plugin-for-creem/webhook

• Method: POST
• Respond with HTTP 200 on success (Creem retries on other status codes).

Local development

Use a tunnel (ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, etc.) to expose local Strapi:

ngrok http 1337

Register: https://abcd.ngrok.io/api/strapi5-plugin-for-creem/webhook

Configuration (admin)

In the Strapi admin:

1. Open Settings → Creem → Configuration.
2. Configure:
   • Environment: Test mode vs Production (constrained by which API keys are set in .env).
   • Checkout success URL: optional default used when checkout requests do not pass a URL.
   • Webhook forward URL (optional): after verification, the plugin POSTs the event JSON to this URL.

Managing products

From the plugin admin page (Plugins → Strapi 5 Plugin for Creem) you can:

• Create Creem products (one-time or subscription, including free products with price 0) via the Creem Products API.
• List products from your Creem store (archived products are excluded).
• Configure currency (USD or EUR) when creating a product.
• Attach license keys and private notes as product features on create.
• Edit or archive products by opening the Creem dashboard (https://www.creem.io/dashboard/products/edit/{productId}). The Creem API does not support these operations via this plugin yet.
• Generate an embed snippet for front-end checkout.

This plugin is a thin UI + API bridge to Creem.

Embed checkout button (snippet)

The admin UI shows an embed snippet that posts to your Strapi content API checkout route:

POST /api/strapi5-plugin-for-creem/checkout

The snippet uses data-creem-checkout attributes (product id, email, optional success URL, metadata). The server creates a Creem checkout session and returns { "url": "..." } with the Creem checkout URL.

License

MIT