#paige_best-practices
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calm sky
👋 Happy to help
zealous wing
Thanks :)
calm sky
It's not mandatory but recommended depending on your use cases. If your website is down, Stripe has a retry mechanisme
when a user gets redirected to pay, once they come back to my site, can't I just use stripe api for whether the subscription I sent them to has been paid for or not?
It's possible to do sync calls for Stripe APIs for sure without using Webhooks
There is nothing blocks you from accepting payment with Stripe without using webhooks
Webhooks becomes necessary for async payments
zealous wing
could you elaborate what you mean exactly by sync vs async payments? (or link something that explains it?) I'm not sure
Well - more so to reword, which cases (e.g. payment types or product types) would be sync and which would be async payments?
calm sky
Card Payments are sync for example, Bank transfers and Debits are async
It depends on the type of the payment methods.
zealous wing
So essentially, once I accept bank transfer and debit (for example) as payment options I should in fact start using webhooks and not just rely on setting it to pending in my own db for a while and then checking a couple of days later?
calm sky
Yes exactly
You set a webhook endpoint and simply get notified when you receive the Payment, or you pull periodically/daily the PaymentIntent status untill it becomes succeeded.
calm sky
Welcome!