#vyne.david.osolkowski
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whole fjord
Hi there! No, it's not possible to update the intent amount client side
If you'd like, you could pass the customer-provided value to your backend and update the intent server side. You could then use fetchUpdates to update Elements client side: https://stripe.com/docs/js/elements_object/fetch_updates
tawny meteor
Okay, I think we'd prefer to avoid that approach because of the lag it might generate, is finalizing payments on the server still viable? https://stripe.com/docs/payments/finalize-payments-on-the-server?platform=web&type=payment
whole fjord
That would still require setting the amount server side
This might be a better alternative: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment-deferred
Rendering the PaymentElement before creating the PaymentIntent
tawny meteor
Right, but it would be done after form submission, so the user would have already locked in their payment information
But I haven't seen the approach you just linked so I will check it out
Oh okay, so you can initialize the UI without a payment intent secret and just do both steps in a row after submission, so it's closer to the "default" approach just re-ordered
whole fjord
Yep, exactly