Stripe Payments JavaScript Course

Project Source Code Stripe Docs Stripe API Reference

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Notes

• Customer
  • Stripe API Reference - Customers
  • Core entity within stripe
  • Stores all profile, billing and, tax information required to bill a customer for both subscription and one-off invoices
• Setup Intent
  • Stripe API Reference - SetupIntents
  • Guides you through setting up and saving a customers payment credentials for future payments
• Payment Intent
  • Stripe API Reference - PaymentIntents
  • A way of collecting payment from a customer
  • recommended that you create one payment intent for each order or customer session in your system
  • Its possible to reference payment intents later to see the history of the payment attempts for a particular session
  • A PaymentIntent transitions through multiple statuses throughout its lifetime as it interfaces with Stripe.js to perform authentication flows and ultimately creates at most one successful charge.
  • Steps on payment intent process
    1. User is ready to pay
    2. Create a payment intent (server)
    3. Collect card details (client)
    4. Submit payment intent and cart to stripe (react)