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[gray ridge]

hi there!

[keen vale]

hi soma

[gray ridge]

if you have a saved payment method, why do you want to use a Checkout Session?

[keen vale]

I have created a payment method by using card that I am hoping to use in a checkout to collect payment for a product

[gray ridge]

Checkout Session is mainly used to collect new payment information. if you already have a saved payment method, then you don't really need to use a Checkout Session. you can directly create a PaymentIntent to charge the card.

if you really want to use a Checkout Session and prefil the existing card, this is covered here: https://docs.stripe.com/payments/existing-customers

[keen vale]

But actually with Payment Intents we can not explicitly use the tax right

[gray ridge]

True

an other option would be to use Invoice, which support Tax.

[keen vale]

Yes we have implemented invoice but this is scenario where we have checkout implemented in the flow itself

so is there any way around this

[gray ridge]

if you want to use Checkout Session, check the link I shared above.

[keen vale]

sure

one more thing

while creating a payment method I can see there is no card_id that i am recieving in the response

I am just recieving the fingerprint

[gray ridge]

while creating a payment method
how are you creating the PaymentMethod?
there is no card_id
why do you want a card ID? if it's a PaymentMethod, there should be a pm_xxx ID.

[keen vale]

I am creting paymentmethod by using stripe.PaymentMethod.create() api

[keen vale]

just wanted to know if we are going to get the card_id

[gray ridge]

I am creting paymentmethod by using stripe.PaymentMethod.create() api
can you share a bit more about your payment flow?

[keen vale]

sure

We first create customer for our users on stripe
following this we create a payment method (card) and attach this to the user

next when the user adds a product to purchase
we create a checkout session to collect the payment

Now here we want to show the payment method earlier attached to the customer

[gray ridge]

following this we create a payment method (card) and attach this to the user
that's not a flow we would recommend. instead you should use a SetupIntent for this.

either this: https://docs.stripe.com/payments/save-and-reuse, or a Checkout Session in setup mode.

[sinful pecan]

👋 taking over for my colleague. Let me know if there's any follow-up Qs I can answer!

[keen vale]

Sure Tarzan so just wondering if we can implement the scenario that I explained using the checkouts only because checkout sessions are already in place so is it possible

also what is the difference between a checkout session or a setupintent

[sinful pecan]

SetupIntents are the backbone of CheckoutSessions in setup mode

Intents are our high level API that abstract the attempts of the payment/setup

[keen vale]

so do they allow to use the taxation as well

[sinful pecan]

if you're using Checkout Sessions you don't need to worry about Intents

Stripe will handle that for you

and yes Tax is available with Checkout Sessions

to go back to your original question, are you expecting your customer to pay on the first time? if that's the case you can save the payment method during the payment and allow the PM to be redisplayed in the future as well https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout/save-during-payment#save-payment-methods-to-prefill-them-in-checkout

[keen vale]

We are allowing the user to save a card for future use before the payments explicitly

[sinful pecan]

do your really need that? I mean to make it into 2 steps?

[keen vale]

Yes

it is the requirements

[sinful pecan]

then you should use https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout/save-and-reuse?payment-ui=stripe-hosted with the param from https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout/save-during-payment?payment-ui=stripe-hosted#save-payment-methods-to-prefill-them-in-checkout

[keen vale]

ok let me try it once

I tried passing saved_payment_method_options={"payment_method_save": "enabled"} while creating a checkout session but it is still not taking the saved payment method

[sinful pecan]

would you mind sharing either the Checkout Session ID or the request ID?

[keen vale]

sure

here is the request id

req_T2qwgbFUN56GTk

a question do we need not to pass payment_method_types if we are passing saved_payment_method_options in the payload

[sinful pecan]

creating the Checkout Session isn't enough to save the PaymentMethod

first you need to pass mode: "setup" instead of "payment" when you create the Checkout Session

then you need to visit the url that is generated by the Checkout Session

to collect the payment method details

[sinful pecan]

these params are not related.

[keen vale]

ok i will try using mode: setup