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covert valve
Thanks in advance 🙂
digital jewel
Have you taken a look at our docs here? https://stripe.com/docs/payments/extended-authorization
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covert valve
It looks like the only payment option we would be able to accept would be the mastercard line (excluding maestro and cirrus cards). We're creating a platform for professional Tarot readers to teach others, which looks like it falls outside of the scope of the merchant categories listed on the other providers.
Unfortunately, limiting our payment options to only mastercard would be a non-starter for us. What kind of payment flow would you recommend instead?
digital jewel
If extended auths won't work for you, then your best option would be to use SetupIntents to collect payment details ahead of time. At a future point you can then use the gnerated Payment Method for future charges
The downside there is that it won't give you the strong guarantee of the customer having those exact amount of funds like a hold would
covert valve
When I looked into this, it seemed like there wasn't a built-in way to ensure the payment methods were valid (one of the main benefits of placing a hold)
Yep exactly
Are there any flows you've seen in the past work for folks that offers some confirmation of the payment method?
(We could always charge some up-front fee, and then re-use the payment methhod down the line, if there are no other options)
digital jewel
I don' think there are any other options that wouldn't require payment apart from doing the hold. All the other options would involve you need to take some payment now (like a deposit)
covert valve
Ok, thank you! That’s more or less the conclusion I’d come to from the docs but my team wanted to confirm. I appreciate the help