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[uncut lagoon]

hi there!

I'm not sure I understand. The request you shared that creates a Customer was made by your own code.

[livid oriole]

Hi Soma, struggling with this one, asked chat too, but couldn't quite find a sol

Yes, but i didnt call stripe.customer.create, i called checkout.sessions.create which is only to mount the embedded checkot form to take a payment, but this creates a customer as well.

[uncut lagoon]

but i didnt call stripe.customer.create
at least for the request you shared, your code called stripe.customer.create.

can you share a Customer ID (cus_xxx) that you didn't create?

[livid oriole]

hmm, sure. i mean to say i didn't create them directly, but for some reason i assume that when embedded checkout is mounted, it does create the cutomer (even before the form is submmited) - is this correct?

i checked again, i am not calling customer.create

[uncut lagoon]

can you share a Customer ID (cus_xxx) that you didn't create?

[livid oriole]

cus_T1S594DbJqCTvq

it 2ms prior to checkout sessions, which i assume is called by stripe before checkout session - just a theory, the AI chatbot in Stripe mentioned that when creating a cehckout session (in order to mount the embedded checkout) will also create a customer .. hoping to find a way to do that without.

[uncut lagoon]

here's the request that created the customer: https://dashboard.stripe.com/logs/req_CF1A0sMAD8cyV6
it was made by your node JS code. so can you double check your code?

[livid oriole]

would you mind if i paste parts of my code here, just to be sure that stripe.customer.create isn't called, but rather checkout.sessions.create

Or let me ask it another way, when I callicalling checkout.sessions.create the result is a client secret, which is then used to mont the embedded cehckout.. Does this checkout.sessions.create , create a customer if none exisits for that email.

[uncut lagoon]

would you mind if i paste parts of my code here, just to be sure that stripe.customer.create isn't called, but rather checkout.sessions.create
I don't think that would help, since your code to create a customer might not be included in the code you share with me.

Does this checkout.sessions.create , create a customer if none exisits for that email.
Checkout Session can create Customers yes. but that's not what happened in your code. your code called the customer.create() function to create a customer

[livid oriole]

Got it, i mean i am checking and dont have it logged anywhere. However since you did mention that checkout session themselves can create customers - wouldn't that explain why the logs show that too. -- anyhow to move things along, What I do want to acheive is

1. Using embedded checkout which i am already
2. create a customer and a subscription at once (even when passing in a customer_email
3. I read the docs here https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/object#checkout_session_object-customer and it does say although not clear enough for me to understand that -- "Checkout will create a new customer object based on information provided during the payment flow unless an existing customer was provided when the Session was created." -- the result is i have a lot of ghost customers, users without a payment method (this happens when they leave the checkout process.

ill be back in a little to check on this, hopefully i can find a solution.

[uncut lagoon]

either you create your own customer object upfront, and then pass it when creating the Checkout Session on the backend. or don't pass a customer at all, and Checkout Session will automatically create one for you with mode: subscription