Ian Kaplan

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Is this intuition correct?
Correct, yes. Think of a Payment Intent as a state machine, and the Charge as the actual representation of a payment

are there situations where an old manually created charge against a source creates a payment intent behind the scenes?
No.

are there some good resources to look into around this?
There's a migration guide here: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-intents/migration

Happy to answer any specific Qs