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tropic monolith
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If the customer wants to re-use or accidently deletes the payment method can it simply be re-created?
Nope
https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_methods/detach#:~:text=After a PaymentMethod is detached%2C it can no longer be used for a payment or re-attached to a Customer.
severe willow
that doesn't explain much about what the detach payment method is or why it's detach rather than delete
it the payment method itself deleted? or does it just simply exist forever in stripes database and why do it that way
tropic monolith
PaymentMethod is quiet particular object. For example you don't have DELETE endpoint because we need to keep trace of it for previous Payments for example.
That's why there is only Detach API. You can consider it as DELETE API for the PaymentMethod.
severe willow
that makes sense especially since financial data needs a pretty significant paper trail. Just to check will there be any conflict if for instance a user were to delete a credit card and then we make a new payment method with the same credit card information?
tropic monolith
No conflict.
severe willow
thanks!
tropic monolith
Welcome!
severe willow
the stripe bot started a new thread, which made my previous thread disappear. Is there any way to get the information from the previous thread back? It was a request sent a long time ago but I'm finally back to being able to work on those items so the answers would be really helpful if I could access them again
tropic monolith
StripeBot don't archive threads, probably that's Discord data retention.
severe willow
ok thanks