bluetable-checkout-customer | Stripe Developers | Page 1

little mangoBOT Apr 12, 2023, 6:29 PM

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spark needle Apr 12, 2023, 6:29 PM

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@dire zodiac it depends on your configuration mostly

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bluetable-checkout-customer

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@dire zodiac can you give me a bit more context? You talk about "checkout session" which is for our Checkout product, but you also talk about PaymentElement which is when you do not use Checkout

dire zodiac Apr 12, 2023, 6:33 PM

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Sorry for the delay, yes one sec!

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It's all pretty new to me, so it's super likely I'm describing things wrong. I'm definitely using PaymentElement. I've been trying to figure out webhooks, which I think I set up for checkout.session.complete and payment.intent.succeeeded(etc.)

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My understanding is that I need to use webhooks to handle any post-payment events?

spark needle Apr 12, 2023, 6:37 PM

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All good let's take a step back: Are you writing code on your own website using PaymentIntent and PaymentElement OR are you using our Checkout product

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they are completely unrelated/separate so knowing which one you use changes everything

dire zodiac Apr 12, 2023, 6:38 PM

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I'm coding a React app using the PaymentElement and PaymentIntent!

spark needle Apr 12, 2023, 6:39 PM

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Okay, so you are not using Checkout, creating a Checkout Session and you should never listen for checkout.session.completed in that case

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So now, if you use PaymentElement, you fully control the integration in that case. We (Stripe) don't create anything for you. If you want to create a Customer and save card details for future payments it's totally possible but this is something you fully control. PaymentElement solely focuses on collecting payment method details for a payment

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https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-during-payment?platform=web would be a good doc for this

dire zodiac Apr 12, 2023, 6:42 PM

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Okay this is great info. So to go about creating a customer object, do I need to create and store that data in my own database, or can I use Stripe customer create and store it in my dashboard? that article might totally have the answer for this

spark needle Apr 12, 2023, 6:44 PM

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yeah that article covers that in details, you can call the Create Customer API https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/create and then associate that PaymentIntent with it, save card details for future use, etc.

dire zodiac Apr 12, 2023, 6:46 PM

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Really awesome, thank you so much!

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