#MidnighttFoxx
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blissful cosmos
What do you mean when you say frontend? Do you mean client-side using Stripe.js and your publishable key?
If that's what your asking then no, that's not possible
remote plinth
i have a working payment sheet that has some metadata that i passed in when i run paymentIntents.create, but there is something i want to add from a different API call after the payment succeeds
blissful cosmos
Then you'll need to update that PaymentIntent server-side
remote plinth
could you explain how i would go about doing that
blissful cosmos
what specific part of it are you having trouble with?
remote plinth
im not exactly sure how to access said paymentIntent
blissful cosmos
But what specifically do you mean by that? Do you already have the PaymentIntent ID client-side and don't know what to do with it? Do you not have the PaymentIntent ID at all?
remote plinth
i don't have the ID at all
blissful cosmos
Gotcha - so there's a couple of different ways you could do this, but the best way is to use webhooks. You'd listen for the payment_intent.succeeded event to be notified whenever a PaymentIntent succeeds, and from your webhook handler you can make the API request to update the PI with whatever metadata you want
remote plinth
so i was able to get the webhook working to check for success, but now how do i alter the metadata
blissful cosmos
https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_intents/update#update_payment_intent-metadata <- This is what you'd use
remote plinth
i tried to update the metadata and got "unhandled promise rejection: stripe.paymentIntents.update is not defined"
blissful cosmos
Can you show us your code? It's likely you haven't initialized the Stripe library correctly
remote plinth
do you want just the few lines?
blissful cosmos
Show us the lines where you call stripe.paymentIntents.update and how you initialize the STripe library
remote plinth
blissful cosmos
This is your client-side code. You need to be updating the PaymentIntent from your server.
That's why it's failing - the client-side stripe library doesn't allow you to update PaymentIntents in this way
remote plinth
oh, so then its not possible to do what i wanted i guess
because that token is stored client side
blissful cosmos
Yeah as I said from the start - it's not possible to set metadata client-side. You need to call to your own server that makes the request to Stripe using your secret key