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remote depot
What is the difference between checkout and payment intent?
Is one more preferred over the other? Does one have more options?
thin star
If you are creating a payment intent directly, it will have a client secret that you can pass to that confirmPayment call. The Checkout Session client secret is a different thing for embedded checkout or checkout with Elements flows. https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/object#payment_intent_object-client_secret
remote depot
ok so I need to use the checkout.confirm() if I use the checkout session secret
Is one more preferred over the other?
thin star
Both are viable, definitely more of a personal choice. I think the general tradeoff is that Checkout does more for you, but is less flexible, wheras working directly with subscriptions/intents is more flexible but can mean more code on your side.
Both flows can do both subscriptions and one-time payments, but I' recommend you stick to the same solution for both when working on a specific integration. You can mix and match, but that will make your codebase more split and wonky. If you use the same for both, you can re-use more across the two flows.
Looking through this doc may help you. "Advanced Integration" tab is Elements with a payment intent secret, the "Embedded form" and "Embedded components" tabs show how to use the Checkout Client secret.
https://docs.stripe.com/payments/accept-a-payment
remote depot
Ok sounds good, thanks!