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Design a custom integration

Learn which choices you need to make before building a custom Payment Element integration.

We recommend the Checkout Sessions API for most integrations. It covers similar use cases as Payment Intents, including one-time payments and complex checkout flows with tax, discounts, shipping, and subscriptions. It has one integration path, see the Quickstart guide to learn more.