Maycon Sousa

[minor venture]

Hello! Quick question - are you separately creating a SetupIntent in addition to creating the Subscription?

[wraith umbra]

Yes

This is current flow

1. create setupIntent
2. confirmSetup
3. create a customer
4. attach the payment method (returned by setupIntent) to customer
5. set the payment method as default to customer
6. create subscription for customer

[minor venture]

So first off, I wouldn't recommend creating a separate SetupIntent at all. If the Subscription is trialing, it'll create a setupIntent for you that you can use to collect the payment details

[wraith umbra]

What's the recommended flow?

1. create a customer
2. create a subscription for customer
3. retrieve the setupIntent from subscription ??
   ...

[minor venture]

Yup!

You'd get the SetupIntent from pending_setup_intent on the Subscriptoin (https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-pending_setup_intent) and then go through the normal confirmation flow to collect the payment method (which should be automatically attached when confirmation is successful)

[wraith umbra]

I'll try this flow..

Do you know if pending_setup_intent will be null for cards like 4242 ?

[minor venture]

It doesn't really matter what the card is - if the Subscription is created and doesn't charge any amount when it's first generated (because of a trial) then it'll have a pending_setup_intent