#cm5061_paymentintents-invoicepayments-invoices
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- cm5061_basil-replace-forever-coupons, 4 days ago, 15 messages
rich path
Hi there,
generally speaking every Charge should have a Payment Intent attached. That's how the Stripe logic works. Only exception would probably be, when you create a charge directly, but do not recommend that approach.
The doc you shared shows how to use the InvoicePayments API (nit Invoice API) to retrieve all InvoicePayments related to a Payment Intent. Each Invoice Payment is attached to an invoice. Through the Payment Intent, you get to the Invoice Payments, and with a Invoice Payment you get to the Invoice.
fair radish
Got it, understood.
The doc you shared shows how to use the InvoicePayments API (nit Invoice API) to retrieve all InvoicePayments related to a Payment Intent.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something about PaymentIntents, but how could a PaymentIntent be associated with multiple InvoicePayments (and theoretically multiple Invoices)?
rich path
One Payment Intent can be associated to multiple InvoicePayments. An InvoicePayment should only be associated to one Invoice. I just double checked and looking at the API reference it shows, that the invoice property on the Invoice Payment Object is a string, which mean it would allow only one value https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoice-payment/object#invoice_payment_object-invoice
fair radish
Right, sorry, that's the point that I'm trying to get at. There is a 1-1 between InvoicePayments and Invoices, but a 1-Many between PaymentIntents and InvoicePayments. Which means theoretically a PaymentIntent (through InvoicePayments) could be associated with more than one Invoice? Maybe that's just theoretical and not practical though?
rich path
It's theoretical I would say. A Payment Intent normally gets created through the invoice. So there is a (imagined) 1:1 relation. But the Payment Intent can be paid in mutliple actual Payments from a user. So there is a 1:many relationship.
fair radish
Beautiful, so expected that a PaymentIntent might have multiple partial payments, but unexpected for them to be for different Invoices.
Thanks for the clarification, appreciate it!
rich path
No problem. Always happy to help