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[inner swan]

HI there, so you only want your customer to only manage payment methods in customer portal page?

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This button produces this link where you can manage just a single subscription

the customer portal manages the entire account.

@inner swan Currently this is how i create the customer portal session

async function createCustomerPortalSession(customerId) {
  try {
    const session = await stripe.billingPortal.sessions.create({
      customer: customerId,
      return_url: 'http://anchored.host/billing/subscriptions',
    });

    return session.url;
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error creating customer portal session:', error);
    throw error;
  }
}

[inner swan]

Can you tell me what you want to achieve with customer portal?

[stoic arrow]

I dont want to use customer portal, I want the individual subscription management portal referenced in the first two images but I dont see any API routes to generate the link.

Customer portal is my band aid on the issue

https://billing.stripe.com/p/subscription/update_payment_method_link/CBcaFwoVYWNjdF8xS3RJTEZKSUhWRjZ0UXBOKIPnvLQGMgb4-LDYros6OtZwsNsMMF7oFzYHqkL9pI9xDQYwB1M6SeT0RWzOpOh2csedbf4EPVyKcB_EB_VKEbFmCXd9tclzeKY

I want to generate a URL like above to update_payment_method_link

[inner swan]

OK, you can achieve the same with customer portal by creating a portal configuraiton that has payment_method_update enabled only https://docs.stripe.com/api/customer_portal/configurations/create#create_portal_configuration-features-payment_method_update

[stoic arrow]

It needs to reference a single subscription and it doesnt appear be able to have a field for updating payment method for a single subscription.

[inner swan]

No you can't limit a customer portal session to one subscription only.

[stoic arrow]

Yes I dont want a customer portal, I want the alternative

How can I generate this link, thats not the customer portal, via the API

that link takes me to a page thats not the customer portal

[inner swan]

This is a dashboard only feature, not availble through API.

[stoic arrow]

Is there a page link I can generate that allows me to a add payment method only? Then I can create a form to change the payment method for the subscription on my frontend

I guess I can just create an empty checkout session