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[cobalt rapids]

Unfortunately there's no way to get around the confirmation step. This is the step that validates the card info so that Stripe (and you) know that it is a valid card in a chargeable state.

As for having to create a Payment Intent every time: we recently created a workflow that allows you to defer that step until after the Payment Method details are saved: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment-deferred