Steve Sizer

[gusty sapphire]

Hi 👋

No this isn't something you can do AFAIK.

[tired ermine]

I'm just using the new payment element at the moment and you have to create a payment intent first, so i dont have any client details at that point...

[gusty sapphire]

Does the Payment Intent have a value in the customer property?

[tired ermine]

intent = Stripe::PaymentIntent.create({
amount: price.to_i,
currency: 'usd',
automatic_payment_methods: {
enabled: true,
},
})

no. I just create the payment intent

[flat stratus]

👋 stepping in as Snufkin needs to step away

[tired ermine]

Can i create a customer just before the confirm payment?

[flat stratus]

Yep you can

There are basically two options

You can either update the PaymentIntent before confirmation to include a Customer ID

Or you can use setup_future_usage with the PaymentIntent, then you attach the PaymentMethod to the Customer after the PaymentIntent is confirmed

That will associate the PaymentIntent and PaymentMethod to that Customer

[tired ermine]

so before i call confirm payment i do the following which returns a customer

const {
data: { error, customer, amount },
} = await axiosInstance.post(/playlists/${playlist.slug}/purchase, {
coupon_code: coupon.current.value,
first_name: firstName,
last_name: lastName,
email: email,
phone: phone,
});

so what i could do is pass the payment intent as a param in the above call and attach it to the customer here

This only seemed to occur though with testing google payments i don't know if that has anything to do with it?

[flat stratus]

The above code is frontend code where you are making an Axios request, no?

That is not where you create a Customer nor PaymentIntent

That all happens in your backend

Let's back up a second

What are you trying to accomplish?

[tired ermine]

I've already created a payment intent, so in the above axios request where i create and return the customer could i not pass the payment intent previously created on the initial page load. And attach it to said returned customer?

hope this makes sense

[flat stratus]

No not really. You don't "attach PaymentIntents to customers". You attach PaymentMethods to Customers, and then any PaymentIntent paid with that PaymentMethod would also be associated with that Customer.

So you would want to do what I stated before. When you create your PaymentIntent you pass setup_future_usage: https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_intents/create#create_payment_intent-setup_future_usage

This allows you to later attach a PaymentMethod created from that PaymentIntent to a Customer

[tired ermine]

awesome thank you 🙂