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junior lance
hi there 👋 give me a moment to catch up
cursive phoenix
Should I start a customer session? If so, can I still display the payment elements? I don't want them to "check out" --- these are people who have created subscriptions before and have paid for at least something in the past. But if they have a new card they want to use going forward, I want to set that up.
So this doesn't seem like it would be created to creating a charge, or adding a new sale, or adding a new prescription, or paying a particular invoice. All those cases are well covered,, but I am just having a very hard time finding out how you want me to uses these session/intent tags to display the web elements that you guys make so pretty.
junior lance
yes customer session is an option. you can use Payment Element with Setup Intent so that the new payment method is not charged.
cursive phoenix
so can I use a "setup intent" on a customer who already exists?
junior lance
You can also do it without customer session. Where you simply retrieve and display existing payment methods on the customer obbjects
yes you can use SetupIntents on existing customers
cursive phoenix
OK. I'll look that up. Thank you.
junior lance
This is the customer parameter on the SetupIntent object: https://docs.stripe.com/api/setup_intents/objec#setup_intent_object-customer