#afenster
unreal dagger
open burrow
Hi, are you offering a free trial? Is this for subscriptions? What is the use case?
old crow
I'm new to the company. I believe the use case is the person calls to make a reservation. We enter the card into the Payment Element with no charge. Later when the person shows up or cancels, we charge the appropriate amount.
So we would be able to charge the person's card ending in XXXX.
open burrow
I see, what integration are you using currently? Checkout? Elements?
old crow
We are migrating from the Charge system to PaymentIntents. In the current system it looks like we do a $0 authorize, get a token and do not capture. (If I understand it correctly.) I am looking for the PaymentIntent equivalent.
In the new system we have a Payment Element used when people call and tell us their number. We are adding Stripe Terminals for in-person payments.
Application is a React UI and a .Net backend.
open burrow
I'd encourage you to take a look at out Setup Intents: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-and-reuse in this case.
This lets you collect a payment method without making a payment first and then charge them in the future.
old crow
OK, I'll look it over. I didn't see that.
Would making a $0 payment with a PaymentIntent have the same effect? Would a $0 charge show up on the customer's statement?
Because I've already got all the code working.
That is, right now I can take a $10 deposit and then charge the rest later. So would taking a $0 deposit be the same thing?
open burrow
That is not going to work I'm afraid.
old crow
OK. When my boss asks why not, what do I say? You can't confirm a $0 payment?
open burrow
I was looking for our document but the reason is that we have a minimum requirement: https://stripe.com/docs/currencies#minimum-and-maximum-charge-amounts
If you pass $0, it would throw an error.
old crow
I remember that now. That's right - a 50 cent minimum in the US.
That's all the questions I have. Thank you for your assistance. 🙂
open burrow
Happy to help!
old crow
Sorry, I'm back.
It looks like in the existing system they authorize $1 and then don't capture it. Is that something I could do with PaymentIntents? Or is that a bad idea?
open burrow
No worries, that is against card network policies and that is not recommended at all.
old crow
OK, thanks again.
open burrow
Sure!