ironbeard-payment-method

[urban turtle]

Hi there 👋 it looks like that intent used a Source rather than a Payment Method, but I'm taking a closer look.

When you retrieve that Payment Intent, do you see a source field?

[steel pendant]

Hmm one sec

Yes, it returns card_1LA1ShCoTIfwbn28pLLlwNX6

This PaymentIntent comes from creating a Subscription in the dashboard

but usually I'll be creating a Subscription with the API, then confirming the payment intent using subscription.latest_invoice.payment_intent with the Card Element.

So, in that situation, should I be expecting source field or payment_method?

[urban turtle]

In this case, it's because the Customer that the Subscription was created for has a default_source set, and since the Subscription was created without a default_payment_method or default_source value, the system fell back on customer fields to use to pay the associated invoice.
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-default_payment_method

For a newly created integration leveraging the Card Element, you'd be expecting a Payment Method to be provided.

[steel pendant]

Ahh, yes, that makes sense. Thanks 🙂

[urban turtle]

Any time!

[steel pendant]

🙌🙌

One more question: is it possible to determine if a given PaymentMethod is the "default" one based on a stripe.PaymentMethod.retrieve(pm_id) call? Or do you need to, e.g., expand customer etc?

[urban turtle]

You'll need to look at the Customer object.

[steel pendant]

Gotcha, thanks!