#Ben21
pseudo citrus
tulip trail
Hello 👋
customer property on a PaymentIntent is expandable so its not included by default
https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_intents/object?lang=node#payment_intent_object-customer
So you'd need to expand it at retrieval time
https://stripe.com/docs/api/expanding_objects?lang=node
marble fractal
Thanks, when I try
$payment_intent = \Stripe\PaymentIntent::retrieve( $payment_intent_id, ['expand' => ['customer']] );
the customer key is NULL
tulip trail
Can you share the PaymentIntent ID you're looking at?
tulip trail
The PaymentIntent does not have any customers attached really that's why you're getting null
https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_PPPFdtKuyxW6T8
marble fractal
Ok so what is the way to retrieve the customer ID from a previous payment
tulip trail
what previous payment?
marble fractal
from any payment made by a user on my website
on my side i just store the payment intent ID
but i need a proper customer ID so I can create a new paymentintent for a hold of 1000€
tulip trail
Creating a PaymentIntent does not create a customer automatically.
You'll need to call the API and create a customer first.
Then pass that customer ID to the PaymentIntent you're creating using customer param
https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_intents/create?lang=node#create_payment_intent-customer
If you did generate the customer ID and passed it to a PaymentIntent already then the code you've shared above should work
marble fractal
OK, i have no control over the first paymentintent customer creation, but when i do check it on stripe i can see that a guest customer is existing pn the stripe side
i cannot retrieve this "gcus_1MADvADVvpMi5GcVKB2V25zC" via API ?
tulip trail
Guest customers are created by checkout
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/guest-customers
They aren't really retrievable.
marble fractal
Ok so my only chance is to create a real customer on the first payment
tulip trail
Yup
marble fractal
i am using a third party stripe gateway for the first payment so i guess it will be a headache to add that behavior
tulip trail
Ah gotcha, you would want to talk to them re this and see what they have to say about the behavior.
marble fractal
all right, thanks for your help
tulip trail
NP! 🙂 Good luck