Guillaume - PaymentIntent | Stripe Developers | Page 1

barren imp May 9, 2022, 10:37 PM

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Hi, if the end customer is not using the payment intent, it's ok for it to expire.

muted mango May 9, 2022, 10:38 PM

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Ok, so I don't have to do anything special?

barren imp May 9, 2022, 10:39 PM

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That is correct... let me clarify that payment intents will not expire but you can leave it as it. Or you can cancel it, https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_intents/cancel

muted mango May 9, 2022, 10:39 PM

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And set cancellation_reason to abandoned. Yes I'm on that page. 🙂

barren imp May 9, 2022, 10:40 PM

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The cancellation_reason parameter is optional

muted mango May 9, 2022, 10:41 PM

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I've never cancelled a PI before. You're saying they don't expire. Isn't that bad for your backend?

barren imp May 9, 2022, 10:42 PM

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What do you mean? How so?

muted mango May 9, 2022, 10:42 PM

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Obviously if the user just leaves the checkout page there's nothing I can do.

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But if they checkout via Paypal and come back to my payment confirmation page, I could see that there's a PI in the session and cancel it.

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If you were building a webstore, what would you do in this case that would be the most friendly to Stripe services?

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If it doesn't matter I'll just let it be. 🙂

barren imp May 9, 2022, 10:48 PM

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To us it does not matter, it's really up to you. It could be confusing to have many unconfirmed payment intents sitting there in the Dashboard. If it were up to me, I would clean it up daily via cron.

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