#Piercy-checkout-link
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formal mesa
It denotes that the payment was completed via a payment method saved on the Stripe network via Link
In some of our UIs, users have an option to save their details for future usage which are then available across all Stripe merchants
deft wadi
Does it attach a new payment method or does it only use existing payment methods on the customer?
formal mesa
Link cards aren't stored as Payment Method objects on your account if that's what you're asking
formal mesa
np
deft wadi
Sorry I have further questions. When looking at events I see:
"xxx@gmail.com was charged us$76.69" in February last year.
Was that the email address the address on the account at the time, or is that just stripe being helpful and displaying the current email to make it easier to read?
stark blade
Can you share the eventId ?
deft wadi
evt_3Ka33SDD3nZJlvMp0oTmTaPZ
events page shows "xxx@gmail.com was charged".
And what I am trying to work out is wether that email was on that account, at the time of the event.
or if thats just stripe showing the current email to make it easier to read.
stark blade
That's the customer current email. it's fetched from the Customer object
deft wadi
ok thanks
deft wadi
on a checkout session, if I see consumer_found: true, under link settings, does that tell us link was used and that it found information using it?
stark blade
if I see consumer_found: true
Where you are seeing this exactly ?
deft wadi
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ON this request, in the response body theres consumer_found: true
Line 129 of the response
So we're thinking that this payment method was attached using link, and were thinking that field confirms it
stark blade
So you want to see how you can check if Stripe Link was used when setting up the PaymentMethod... let me double check this.
verbal anchor
Piercy-checkout-link
deft wadi
Thanks, I think we have made sense of what we were seeing. So it would just be good to confirm that link was used during that payment method attach.
verbal anchor
Hi 👋 jumping in as my teammate needed to step away. I see the fields that you're referring to, but it's the first time I'm seeing it and am not finding it in our documentation so I'm not sure what it represents.
My understanding is that currently the best way to check if Link was used for a transaction, is to reference the is_link column from this report:
https://stripe.com/docs/reports/balance#schema-balance-change-from-activity-itemized-3
deft wadi
ok thanks.
verbal anchor
I did a bit of testing, and ran two test payments where one did use Link while the other did not. consumer_found was false when I didn't use Link. I'd still be hesitant to rely on the field since we don't document its expected behavior, but it does seem like your suspicion is right about it helping identify whether Link was used. If you do try to hook on that value, I would strongly recommend you test thoroughly and make sure that field is behaving the way you think.