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serene summit Sep 15, 2021, 4:19 PM

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@round zephyr what's the context of that sentence? What doc are you reading?

round zephyr Sep 15, 2021, 4:20 PM

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https://github.com/stripe-samples/accept-a-payment

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I went through both the flows, recurring payments will be taken care by Stripe automatically, in custom flow what large refactoring needs to be done ?

serene summit Sep 15, 2021, 4:21 PM

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okay so you mean

Large refactor to collect recurring payments.
specifically?

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Well handling recurring payments across payment method types and with 3D Secure for example is a lot of work. Checkout does all of that for you

round zephyr Sep 15, 2021, 4:22 PM

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I am more concern about cards

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For card payment Type is that ok ?

serene summit Sep 15, 2021, 4:24 PM

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is what okay?

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Sorry, it's just a readme of a sample. Integrating collecting card details for subscriptions is harder than for a normal payment and we recommend using Checkout

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you don't have to, it's just a high level recommendation

round zephyr Sep 15, 2021, 4:26 PM

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We are using Custom flow with payment method only card. Is large refactoring even in the this case for recurring payments ?

serene summit Sep 15, 2021, 4:27 PM

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no if you already have a working solution it's not a large refactor and you're fine, just move forward with Elements

round zephyr Sep 15, 2021, 4:28 PM

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We are comparing between Custom flow vs pre built checkout. We don't have any solution yet. From the docs it doesn't looks complex. So asking more details on this.

serene summit Sep 15, 2021, 4:28 PM

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If you have no solution, go with Checkout. It will take minutes, and will save you days of work

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but you said you are already using custom flow so I'm confused

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It's fairly easy to implement the custom flow overall if you're an experienced developer and familiar with payments. But the vast majority of developers who start on Stripe, they aren't experienced with this or payments and they just want to accept payments and focus on their business. So Checkout is 10 times easier overall and way faster to grasp. So we strongly recommend it. And many users, even experienced, still go with it for the simplicity and how many features you just get without extra code (like tax calculation!)

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But if you find the custom flow simple you can definitely go for it!

round zephyr Sep 15, 2021, 4:38 PM

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I have started with Prebuilt checkout and unfortunately found that you cannot update multiple products in customer portal which is big drawback and thinking towards custom flow since anyway update requires Custom flow. Otherwise we would have gone with Prebuilt checkout.

serene summit Sep 15, 2021, 4:40 PM

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makes sense, in that case I think you'll do well

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