skoshkarli-PI-subs

[quaint light]

Hi there, to clarify — you are not using Subscriptions via Stripe?

You are just using the PaymentIntents API but to do recurring charges and tracking the Subscription yourself (or with a third party)?

[sly apex]

I am using subscriptions via Stripe

but it was my understanding that i have to create a PaymentIntent first

[quaint light]

Ah thanks for clarifying

No, the Subscription will create the invoice and PaymentIntent automatically

[sly apex]

oh interesting

[quaint light]

Have you seen https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions before?

If not, recommend reading through that as it will outline the steps for your integration

[sly apex]

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/overview

was looking at this

and that mentioned the PaymentIntent

[quaint light]

Correct, the PaymentIntent is still relevant, but you never create it directly in the Subscription flow.

[sly apex]

to clarify further, we have a custom checkout page that we are using and will not be using stripe's if that makes any difference

[quaint light]

Nope no difference — look at the "custom code" option in the docs above

[sly apex]

got it ok thank you. I do have one other question if you dont mind?

[quaint light]

Of course!

[sly apex]

we have a page where we need to display customers payment info (address, last 4 of card etc). Was looking at https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_methods/retrieve which looks like it takes a payment method Id of some sort in order to retrieve

is this id stored on the customer object as well somewhere?

[quaint light]

Yes that Payment Method ID should be attached to the Customer object

[sly apex]

i only see a default source in the docs

https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers

or will that be default_payment_method key?

[quaint light]

You can list Payment Methods by Customer if you want to retrieve the PaymentMethod ID that way: https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_methods/list#list_payment_methods-customer

There are a variety of ways to get that ID

You also will want to determine how you are charging the Subscription

You can either set the default payment method at the Subscription level or at the Customer level

For you recurring Subscription charges

That is another way to grab the PM ID

[sly apex]

the listpaymentmethods doesn't work for me because it requires a type but i want to see a payment method for the customer's currently active subscription (which should only be one, regardless of payment method type)

[quaint light]

Then yeah you would grab based on the Subscription default or the Customer default, depending on how you are setting the default

[sly apex]

got it, this is perfect. Thank you so much!