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[livid siren]

At the moment, creating the payment intent is required when using the payment element. We have things on the roadmap to allow the payment intent creation to be deferred but unfortunately that isn't available now.

So delaying when you show the payment element or deleting these payment intents if they are too stale would be how to declutter the dashboard if that is the end goal

[cerulean raft]

@livid siren Thanks! So how is the Payment Link works? Or it doesnt use the Payment Element actually?

[livid siren]

It uses Checkout which is different from the Payment Element.

Unfortunately it isn't possible to get that same flow without a payment intent unless you do a lot of coding yourself

Basically each of our payment methods have some way to code a page for them individually, so you would need to implement all of them. This is part of what the payment element is meant to help you avoid but it isn't quite there yet for use cases where you create the payment intent after the element

[cerulean raft]

Got it, thank you!