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[hexed glen]

Hi there

Sure thing

So line_items are not returned with a Checkout Session by default, instead when you receive the checkout.session.completed webhook, you want to retrieve the Checkout Session in that webhook and expand line_items: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/object#checkout_session_object-line_items

[warm zephyr]

ok i will give that a bash, will a checkout.session.completed be sent montly with subscriptions or will that only fire the first time when the subscription is setup?

[hexed glen]

Only when it is set up

You either want to use customer.subscription.updated or invoice.paid for renewals

[warm zephyr]

so i would most likely then need to skip the checkout.session.completed for subscriptions and have two webhooks

[hexed glen]

Yeah up to you really

You can either use both, or just use customer.subscription.updated

[warm zephyr]

so i would like the monthly call to the webhook so i know to update the users subscription and credit them with the number of units they are subscribed to

idealy my goal is to not have to have a scheduled task to check their subscription every month and just rely on the webhooks firing

[hexed glen]

Yes sorry, you definitely want to use webhooks

The question is just whether you want to just queue off of the data in one webhook event, or you can use two different events — one for when the Sub begins (checkout.session.completed) and one for when the renewal occurs.

That part is just at your discretion

[warm zephyr]

sure, i guess so. Seems to me i am forced to use two webhooks because the once off does not fire an invoice.paid

thanks for the advice will try see if i can get this working

[hexed glen]

Yep so you will need both to handle subs/one-time payments