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[rose bear]

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[verbal canyon]

The steps will be as follows:

1. Create a customer with the email address that associated to your own internal customer ID
2. Set Stripe Customer ID (cus_xxx) in customer field when creating a Checkout Session: https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-customer
3. When the customer comes back next time, check whether a Stripe Customer (cus_xxx) has been created. If yes, then use the existing customer ID

When customer field is set, new customer will not be created

[full shard]

Hi River,
A follow up question. What will happen in case when customer with current email address already exists in Stripe's system? Will this create a new customer with current email address in Stripe's system or Stripe will just return customer ID if customer already exists?

[verbal canyon]

Stripe doesn't de-duplicate and will create a new Customer with the same email address. Your system should ensure Customer creation request is only made when such a Stripe customer doesn't exist

[full shard]

Thanks for your response, this makes sense