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[hollow vine]

Can you clarify if you're using Stripe connect and is dynamic A a connected account?

[winter sun]

not really

I have to integrate stripe in our app rn so I want to know which flow shall i follow to achieve this

our only concern is to initiate a payment from a user on our platform, the users may or may not be stripe users all we want to do is initiate a payment when user is paying the x amount to us

we are not having ecommerce so we dont have products

the value is dynamic selected by user and the transaction needs to be performed from the user to us. We want that next time the user initiates the payment the details are prefilled etc so is this managed by stripe or we need to manage it explicitly

We had contact with stripe support regarding the same the response quote:

1) With Stripe Billing, you don't technically need to "save the payment method on file." You all are already using Stripe Billing/subscriptions, which are automatically re-charging your customer's payment method "on file." 

Im not sure I understand this

also the payment is not recurring just one time payment of a value by user

[hollow vine]

Sorry I don't really grasp your question. How exactly are you currently integrated to Stripe?
What APIs are you using?

[winter sun]

we arent yet integrated on the platform we are building

[hollow vine]

Okay

[winter sun]

I want to integrate it, Im concerned about how will i have stored user's card details for recurring payment

[hollow vine]

One more follow up

[winter sun]

yeah

[hollow vine]

Are you planning to use Stripe Billing/subscriptions or are you implementing your own billing engine for recurring payments?

[winter sun]

stripe's billing subscriptions works

[hollow vine]

Okay. So I believe what you're loooking for is this,

https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-and-reuse?platform=web&ui=elements
It allows you to save customer payment methods that you can charge later on

For one-time payments, you can use:
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-and-reuse?platform=web&ui=elements#charge-saved-payment-method

You said you don't have products, for stripe subscriptions you'd need to create some sort of prices and products that the customers can subscribe to

[winter sun]

gimme moments ill follow up

[winter sun]

but the prices are dynamic that is user enters some amount X and then we do the transaction

for subscription if I create prices wont that make it static values?

[hollow vine]

are these prices being calculated using some usage based calculations? If so, we do support metered billing
https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models#usage-based-pricing

[winter sun]

its not recurring, its like lemme just tell u the scenario user sends like tips from our platform

and that tip is transacted to us

this transaction of tip can be initiated anytime and the amount of tip is also decided by user only

so its neither like some static prices like 10,20,30 can be any amount and neither it is recurring

[hollow vine]

Gotcha. So you don't really need subscriptions in that case

All you need is that you save the payment method as I mentioned earlier and then initiate an off-session payment as described in the guide here
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-and-reuse?platform=web&ui=elements#charge-saved-payment-method

You can use whatever amount for the payment

[winter sun]

thanks ill look into these and get back if i still need help with this convo ref

thanks a lot