dragon.frost

[toxic ridge]

Hi

the PaymentIntent api creates an invoice for a customer as soon as the customer chooses a product
No PaymentIntent API doesn't create an invoice.

But Checkout Sesison does.

So if customers does not complete the checkout flow then there can be a buch of pending invoices right? so what purpose does this solve?
No, Invoices are not created From CheckoutSession untill the customer complete the purchase

[sour panther]

I was going through the documentation to create a subscription: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions?ui=elements

I've gone till the step to create a subscription with payment intent when first loading the checkout flow. This in turn creates an invoice on my stripe dashboard. Could you please let me know what these are?

[toxic ridge]

Thansk for sharing these details. So you are using Subscription APIs and not PaymentIntent APIs.

If you want to avoid that, follow this guide instead (collect payment method before creating a Subscription):
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment-deferred?platform=web&type=subscription

[sour panther]

So, in this flow, you create an intent only during submission of the checkout flow?

[toxic ridge]

Yes, you create a Subscirption and ann intent only after the customer complete their payments details