Stripe API - Migrating cards to paymentMethods

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I'm migrating my API from charges API to Intent API

Everything is working, but my users have saved cards in the system, which they can choose to pay with. These cards are saved in the DB with a stripe card id card_xxxx. In Intents this is no longer valid, instead there is pm_xxx (payment_method_id).

My question is how do I migrate my existing cards, and get a payment_method_id from a card.id in order to perform the intent call

In the docs they mention:

When paying with a previously saved payment method, you must specify both the ID of the Customer and the ID of the previously saved Card, Source, or PaymentMethod. Previously, the default source on the customer is used if one was not provided. You must now explicitly pass in the desired payment method.

Apparently you can make the same call to stripe.paymentIntents.create({payment_method: id}) where id can be either pm_xxx or card_xxx.

But will that work in the long run? Do I need to transfer all my card_xxx to pm_xx in order to be SCA compliant?

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After speaking to stripe support - this is their response:

It isn't possible to migrate card objects to payment methods objects, however our API is backwards compatible, so wherever you see the attribute PaymentMethod in our API reference, you can pass the card object ID instead[2].