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fossil berry
Hello!
Can payment intents create subscriptions?
No. Subscriptions create Invoices, and Invoices create Payment Intents. You can't go the other way, from a Payment Intent up to an Invoice, and then up to a Subscription.
Can I replace payment intents with checkout sessions?
Probably not, but I'm not sure I fully understand this question. Can you provide more details?
Should the subscription be handled by my server using payment intent?
Also not sure I fully understand this question.
It would probably be best if you tell me what you want to build, then I can provide recommendations and guidance for building it.
median saddle
So the payment flow goes as follows. User selects a package, and subscription type(one time, weekly, monthly). From there I want to create the intent(it sounds like I should be creating a invoice). Use pays and subscription starts if applicable.
fossil berry
To clarify, you want the customer to pay using the Payment Element, not Checkout?
median saddle
I would prefer Checkout, but my understanding is PaymentSheet only uses payment intent
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fossil berry
Wait, sorry, PaymentSheet? I think I need more context. Are you building something in a mobile app?
PaymentSheet is a mobile UI compoent we provide for mobile apps, it's not something you can use on the web.
median saddle
Sorry, yes I am building an Android app via Kotlin.
fossil berry
Ah, okay, so you're in fact not using Payment Element at all, since this isn't happening on a web page?
median saddle
V1 of the app the way I handled payments by sending users to a webpage(nodejs) where they would pay and be sent back to the app. Now I want to allow users to pay within the app.
fossil berry
Gotcha. So the high level approach would be to create a Subscription on your server, which will then create an Invoice, and the Invoice will create a Payment Intent, and then you can pass that Payment Intent's client secret to the Payment Sheet to pay for the Payment Intent, which will in turn pay for the Invoice, and thus the Subscription.