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A PaymentIntent guides you through the process of collecting a payment from your customer. We recommend that you create exactly one PaymentIntent for each order or customer session in your system. You can reference the PaymentIntent later to see the history of payment attempts for a particular session. A PaymentIntent transitions through [multiple statuses](https://stripe.com/docs/payments/intents#intent-statuses) throughout its lifetime as it interfaces with Stripe.js to perform authentication flows and u…

PaymentMethod objects represent your customer's payment instruments. They can be used with [PaymentIntents](https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-intents) to collect payments or saved to Customer objects to store instrument details for future payments. Related guides: [Payment Methods](https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-methods) and [More Payment Scenarios](https://stripe.com/docs/payments/more-payment-scenarios).

A SetupIntent guides you through the process of setting up and saving a customer's payment credentials for future payments. For example, you could use a SetupIntent to set up and save your customer's card without immediately collecting a payment. Later, you can use [PaymentIntents](https://stripe.com/docs/api#payment_intents) to drive the payment flow. Create a SetupIntent as soon as you're ready to collect your customer's payment credentials. Do not maintain long-lived, unconfirmed SetupIntents as they ma…