varol-checkout-paymentintent

[restive ermine]

varol-checkout-paymentintent

Checkout Sessions expire after 24 hours and then the PaymentIntent is canceled

but you can re-use the Session for as long as it's valid

otherwise you can just ignore the incomplete PaymentIntent

[elfin coral]

gotcha. i see it's possible to add checkout_session_id as a url parameter to the cancel url. i assume i can use that to retrieve the existing session and reuse.

any problems you see with doing that?

thank you very much for your help

[restive ermine]

I was just testing and it works https://example.com/cancel?session_id={CHECKOUT_SESSION_ID} for example

[elfin coral]

is it possible to form a new checkout url using the checkout_session_id or a call to retrieve will be necessary?

[restive ermine]

I don't understand what that could mean

The cancel_url is passed on creation. You don't know the id at that point. You use the magic value {CHECKOUT_SESSION_ID} so that when we redirect we replace with the correct id

[elfin coral]

So I see the checkout url looks like this:

https://checkout.stripe.com/c/pay/cs_test_a1uDSjlc1d8dcUYG2XNaySicbe1mYAyI2EHzQwnJSGSLNhxSZQ#fidkd...

the last part of the path has the session id. but simply using https://checkout.stripe.com/c/pay/cs_test_a1uDS... does not work.

so to get a checkout url to redirect the customer i have to do a request to /checkout/sessions/{session_id} and get a new url?

[restive ermine]

1/ Create a Checkout Session https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create
2/ Redirect the customer to Checkout via the URL available in the url property

[elfin coral]

ok thank you very much for your help today

[restive ermine]

of course, do you feel you have all you need?

[elfin coral]

yes. the url thing i'll just trial and error to see if i can get it to work the way i need. not an important part. thank you again