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    Choosing a Mode

    This is the single most important decision StripeKit asks you to make, because it decides what your payment and checkout calls hand back to you.

    mode: 'api'#

    StripeKit creates a Stripe-hosted Checkout Session and returns hostedUrl. You redirect the customer there; Stripe hosts the entire payment form. Nothing to build on your frontend.

    mode: 'elements'#

    StripeKit creates a PaymentIntent (or SetupIntent) and returns clientSecret. You mount your own Stripe Elements form, using the optional resources/js/stripekit-elements.js helper or your own code, and confirm the payment yourself. Full control over your UI. See Stripe Elements.

    mode: 'both'#

    StripeKit defaults to the 'api' behavior, but every call that creates a payment or checkout accepts a mode (or flowOverride) argument to choose per call.

    Fields returned per mode#

    FieldSet when
    hostedUrlResolved flow is api
    clientSecretResolved flow is elements
    Both $kit->payments->create() and $kit->checkout->create() follow this same pattern.
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