Stripe Payment Intents workflow

[2ec0b4]

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I am updating the payment workflow on a website i am working on. I am following the description made in the block Stripe Payment Intents from the README.md file (or from this comment) and... I'm lost.

First, the page the link "collecting the payment method details" is pointing to has been updated.

Then, on this stripe.com page, they are talking about five steps to create a one-time payment:

1. Create a PaymentIntent (specifying the amount and the currency) on the server
2. Pass client_secret to the client, this is an attribute of the PaymentIntent object got from the previous step response
3. Collect payment method details on the client with Stripe.js
4. Submit the payment to Stripe from the client with Stripe.js using stripe.handleCardPayment method
5. Asynchronously fulfill the customer’s order by:
   • Setting up a webhook
   • or Manually using the Stripe Dashboard
   • or Using a partner application
   • or Using a cron job to fetch recent events

I am in the dark with this two different workflows. From the sixth point in the README.md file, how the PaymentIntent confirmation is made? This is not by providing a callback URL (like PayPal for example). I think we have to create a webhook, isn't it?

Thanks to help me clarify the workflow

[domis86]

You are looking at the "asynchronous PaymentIntent flow" - which indeed requires webhooks.
Please check the "synchronous" variant of the flow: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-intents/web-manual

[2ec0b4]

Thank you @domis86
I missed the keyword "manual" from the README.md file and I was not able to find a link to this page from the stripe.com documentation
I made a pull request to update the README.md file: #147