ghost64

[radiant mesa]

Hi there! I think it would make more sense to only "hold" the item if you receive a checkout.session.completed event (if a customer completes the payment)

https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/fulfill-orders#fulfill

[cold talon]

I also need to hold the item if someone else is trying to pay it for that item so that 2 checkout session cant be opened once

[radiant mesa]

If you'd rather give customers a short time frame for payment, you can expire the Checkout Sessions programmatically: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/expire

[cold talon]

For that I would need to implement a timer in the server side right? I do have that in mind but am spectical cause it might use up alot of resources. I was wondering if anyone might have came up with this problem and how they handled it

[radiant mesa]

Yes, you'd need to keep track of Session creation time and have some logic that expires that Session if it's still open in 5 minutes time

[cold talon]

Any other way that is relevant?

[radiant mesa]

No, I don't think so

It sounds like you're already going to be keeping track of Session creation for a given item so only one Session can be open at a time. If you don't receive a completed event within 5 minutes, you can expire the Session