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night crescent Nov 12, 2021, 2:03 PM

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Hi there 👋 if you already have a payment method then you shouldn't need to create a source from that. You should be able to just use the payment method. Do you encounter an error if you try to do that?

torpid stump Nov 12, 2021, 2:05 PM

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No, that works fine. I use sources instead of payment methods but i took over a client's stripe account from a preexisting connect platform and they use Payment Methods instead of Sources.

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Is it possible to have a payment method converted to a source?

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I am struggling to understand the difference

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shows an empty list even though there is a payment method on their account

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I tried to create a source from the payment method id:

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but i received this error:

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I did as it recommended but it is not showing up as a "source"

night crescent Nov 12, 2021, 2:14 PM

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Payment Methods are basically our new version of sources, they work very similarly. However, they don't get placed inside of the sources array, instead you'd use this API to retrieve the payment methods for a customer:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_methods/customer_list

Stripe API reference – List a Customer's PaymentMethods

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

torpid stump Nov 12, 2021, 2:16 PM

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I understand but my platform is using sources. Is there no way to add a pm to the sources list?

night crescent Nov 12, 2021, 2:20 PM

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No, sources will work as inputs to any field expecting a payment method, but the opposite is not true. If you want to keep using sources then you'll need to create new source objects from scratch, though payment methods are more robust and we'd really recommend you consider moving to them.
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-methods/transitioning

torpid stump Nov 12, 2021, 2:21 PM

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understood. Thank you.

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