Muhammad Awais

[delicate sphinx]

I think this is the guide you might be looking for: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/place-a-hold-on-a-payment-method

[muted hinge]

Once we set 'capture_method' => 'manual',
Then what do we need to perform the autoritzation?

Do we need to capture the payment to do the authorization?

[slim slate]

The confirm call will to the authorization

Capture call is after the authorization and is what actually captures the funds that have been put on hold

[muted hinge]

We don't know how much we are going to charge the customer

So what's the solution?
Save payment card for feature usage?

[slim slate]

Definitely could be. Can you tell me more about what you are trying to do here?

Saving the card is good if you don't know the amount to charge. Placing a hold is good if you know the ballpark of what you want to charge or if you do actually want to hold funds to potentially be charged or released later

[muted hinge]

I want to perform authorization only, don't want to hold the amount.
I am trying to perform a pre-authorization so that we know it's an actual card/patient. Then we have to do some other stuff and after that, we will be back to charging the patient

[slim slate]

Gotcha in that case you can follow this guide https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-and-reuse

So yes the feature that you mentioned

[muted hinge]

I don't think it will work if we are using after pay?

or is there any alternative way to do that?

[slim slate]

Yes, AfterPay doesn't support being saved and used later. In that case you would need to create the payment intent once you know the price and present the afterpay dialogue to the user then