#someone_best-practices
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blazing fern
Hi, let me help you with this.
I see multiple subjects in the question. Are you asking about sending raw card numbers to Stripe API? Or about imlementing recurring payments without Stripe Subscriptions? Or about managing multi-party payments (service A, B) with Stripe Connect?
If the question is about sending raw card details to Stripe API, it's strongly discouraged, unless your service is PCI compliant: https://stripe.com/guides/pci-compliance
If so, you can contact Stripe Support and see if they can turn on this function for your account: https://support.stripe.com/?contact=true
reef kettle
Thank you for your response. Mainly I want to know how to imlement recurring payments without Stripe Subscriptions. Are there any recommendations without handling raw card details?
blazing fern
There's multiple levels to it. Stripe Subscription automatically creates Stripe Invoices on recurring basis. Then, each Invice has a PaymetIntent attached to it. If you don't want to use Stripe Subscriptions, you can create standalone Invoices, or PaymentIntents to charge the customers.
Prior to that, you can collect their payment details for future use with SetupIntents, you can use Stripe Checkout or Payment Element for that: https://docs.stripe.com/payments/save-and-reuse?platform=web&ui=elements
The questions is, what part of the flow do you want to build yourself? Is it just the scheduler? Or you don't want to use Stripe Billing (incl. Invoices) as well?
Maybe if you could share why you don't want to use Subscriptions in the first place I could get a better understanding of your situatuation.
reef kettle
Thank you !! I just want to do the scheduler thing myself because some payments may be one-time.
velvet garnetBOT
blazing fern
You can always terminate the Subscription, or create a one-time Invoice for that. I would say building your own scheduler is a lot of work, if this is the only reason.
reef kettle
I see. Another concern is that the test for subscriptions will be time consuming. Are there any fast testing method? ( Like Apple and Google provide test subscription which update every few minutes)
lucid oyster
👋 taking over for my colleague, they needed to step away.
and more precisely https://docs.stripe.com/billing/testing/test-clocks/simulate-subscriptions
reef kettle
Thanks, I will check the documents after. For further questions I need to do my research more🧐 . Thank you for all the information!!
lucid oyster
let me know if you need any more help