Sairony - confirmPayment | Stripe Developers | Page 1

finite inlet Jul 4, 2022, 2:15 PM

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Hi there!

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Depending on the PaymentMethod used, the user might be redirected to a different page to authenticate. That's why it's mandatory to set a return_url, so that users are able to return to your website after the payment.

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What do you mean by "especially if you want to pass a long data"?

craggy cedar Jul 4, 2022, 2:17 PM

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Ah, so for those payment methods actually the whole tab is redirected to the payment vendors site?

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I guess that makes sense

finite inlet Jul 4, 2022, 2:18 PM

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Exactly.

craggy cedar Jul 4, 2022, 2:19 PM

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For example, I create a setup intent, pop the payment elements for it. The user can also enter promo codes. So when the payment details are collected I want to create a subscription from that setup intent & optionally apply the coupon if present. If it could just be a callback in the promise that would be really easy to just create a POST to the server side API. But now instead I need to bake in the setup ID & the promo code in the return_url & make sure that the landing site completes the last step

finite inlet Jul 4, 2022, 2:26 PM

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For this type for things we recommend to use webhook events. For example listen to setup_intent.succeeded to run your code.
Otherwise, if the use close their browser before the redirect happens, you may loose information.

craggy cedar Jul 4, 2022, 2:26 PM

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Ok, I'll check that route

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Also, do I need to clean up setup intents?

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Since they need to be created before I can use payment elements there's always the risk that the user doesn't go through & completes it, there doesn't seem to be a nice natural point of action to clean them up unless we want to run cron jobs to list & destroy them when they're old enough

finite inlet Jul 4, 2022, 2:31 PM

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From Stripe point of view there is no downsides to having many SetupIntent in incomplete status. And note that SetupIntent don't expire.
But if you want to, you can cancel a SetupIntent with https://stripe.com/docs/api/setup_intents/cancel but you don't have to.

craggy cedar Jul 4, 2022, 2:32 PM

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Sweet, then we'll let them build up for now

finite inlet Jul 4, 2022, 2:34 PM

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Makes sense 🙂

wide dome Jul 4, 2022, 3:09 PM

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Hey, taking over here. Let me know if there's any follow-up Qs I can answer!

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