# Payment Intents

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://docs.stripe.com/docs/payments/intents.md#intent-statuses)
throughout its lifetime as it interfaces with Stripe.js to perform
authentication flows and ultimately creates at most one successful charge.

Related guide: [Payment Intents API](https://docs.stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-intents.md)

## Endpoints

### Create a PaymentIntent

- [POST /v1/payment_intents](https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/create.md)

### Update a PaymentIntent

- [POST /v1/payment_intents/:id](https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/update.md)

### Retrieve a PaymentIntent

- [GET /v1/payment_intents/:id](https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/retrieve.md)

### List all PaymentIntents

- [GET /v1/payment_intents](https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/list.md)

### Cancel a PaymentIntent

- [POST /v1/payment_intents/:id/cancel](https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/cancel.md)

### Capture a PaymentIntent

- [POST /v1/payment_intents/:id/capture](https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/capture.md)

### Confirm a PaymentIntent

- [POST /v1/payment_intents/:id/confirm](https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/confirm.md)

### Increment an authorization

- [POST /v1/payment_intents/:id/increment_authorization](https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/increment_authorization.md)

### Reconcile a customer_balance PaymentIntent

- [POST /v1/payment_intents/:id/apply_customer_balance](https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/apply_customer_balance.md)

### Search PaymentIntents

- [GET /v1/payment_intents/search](https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/search.md)

### Verify microdeposits on a PaymentIntent

- [POST /v1/payment_intents/:id/verify_microdeposits](https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment_intents/verify_microdeposits.md)