uh oh

[fluid imp]

Setup Intents don't only attach the Payment Method to the Customer, they also allow for off-session usage (e.g. charging the customer later on without them being present).

Do you have a more specific question?

[low kernel]

Would there be a way to implement the use case above

with Payment IntentS?

The reddit post that I linked above

A customer places an order of 4 items, and we get the payment information. A few weeks later, one of those four items was manufactured and is ready to be shipped. We would make an invoice for that one item and charge the customer with the provided payment information. Then after another few weeks, the other two items become ready to be shipped so we do the same for these two. Make an invoice, charge the customer for those two items, and fulfill them. Lastly, the remaining item had problems and did not make it through the production. Since we did not charge the customer for this item, there is nothing to be done except notifying the customer that this item will be canceled.

[fluid imp]

No. You have to use Setup Intents as this is the reason that they exist and Payment Intents cannot be set to off-session usage without them

[low kernel]

So you only need to do Setup Intent once for a customer,

And then everytime you want to charge that customer, you create a payment intent?