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[shrewd gale]

Hi there!

Using payment_method: pm_card_visa is very useful for thesting things. But it's doesn't make any sense in production, since you should use a real Payment Method instead.

[vague ether]

Oh okay so it is just a testing value rather than being able to only confirm visa paymentintents?

[shrewd gale]

Exactly. You can see all our test values here: https://stripe.com/docs/testing

In practice:

• If you have an existing PaymentMethod saved, then you would use payment_method: pm_xxx with a real payment method ID
• If you don't have one, then you would not set payment_method at all, and collect a new one on the frontend with the Payment Element.

[vague ether]

alrighty that makes sense, thank you 🙂