Hugues

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Hi
You are probably looking for this guide:
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-during-payment

The idea is to use a PaymentIntent for the initial charge and save the payment for off session payments

you won't need additional SetupIntent

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Hi, this looks like promising solution. But we want our customers to pay by pre-authorized (PAD) payments. These require Mandates and we'd like to issue a SINGLE mandate including the one-off cash-down AND the recurrent payments. So far, I've seen that it's possible only via setup intents (https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/acss-debit#save-payment-method-for-future-subscriptions).

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in that case you adapt your website to use SetupIntent, collect the payment method and directly make the first charge using that PaymentMethd

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I guess that we would have to collect the first charge off-session? How long does it takes for a SetupIntent to be ready to be used for the first charge? We'd like to create the first payment the same day that the SetupIntent was created.

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Acss is an async payment method not a real time one (like cards)

You need to synchronise your integration to charge the customer once the setup_intent become succesfull

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Just to be clear: we don't necessarily want to collect the cash-down the same day, just to initiate the cash-down transaction on the same day. I guess that when you say "synchronise", you mean that we need to be called back via a webhook once the setup intent is ready?

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yes exactly

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Thank you soo much!