When a user places an order, the details of the order that were confirmed at checkout will be used to create a new order record in the database, update or create a Stripe Customer for the user, and decrease the stock quantities of products ordered. In the following sections, we will add an order model to define the details of the orders to be stored in the database and discuss the implementation of the backend API that will be called from the frontend to create the new order record.
Creating a new order
Defining an Order model
To store the orders in the backend, we will define a Schema for the order model that will record order details including the customer details, payment information, and an array of the products ordered...
