Derek Lance | Stripe Developers | Page 1

red bronzeBOT Sep 28, 2022, 3:36 AM

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misty lance Sep 28, 2022, 3:37 AM

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hello! i don't think there's a great way to go about this other than storing and querying for that data in your own DB

keen pike Sep 28, 2022, 3:39 AM

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ok that's what i figured, thanks

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was hoping to not have to set up our own DB but that makes sense

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@misty lance so currently, we have a server set up using a webhook to listen to stripe.checkout.completed, is that the best time to store the discord account to subscription association? doesn't the webhook have the same issue as the stripe.subscriptions.search API where updates are not immediate and could take a few minutes to propagate?

misty lance Sep 28, 2022, 3:50 AM

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i mean, everything needs at least some time, it could be milliseconds, but it's still going to take time

keen pike Sep 28, 2022, 3:51 AM

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milliseconds is better than a few minutes though, that I can live with

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just want to make sure a user doesn't somehow subscribe twice

misty lance Sep 28, 2022, 3:54 AM

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i think something you need to keep in mind is that you should always be prepared to handle exceptional scenarios e.g. webhooks could be delayed as well, or your server could be down/having trouble processing.

If you want to be certain, i would say using their email as the unique id may be a worth considering instead

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so you could retrieve the Customer id, and expand their subscriptions :
https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/list#list_customers-email
https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/object#customer_object-subscriptions

keen pike Sep 28, 2022, 3:59 AM

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and https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/list#list_customers-email Api is ok to use in a read-after-write flow? if so that sounds a lot better for my use case

misty lance Sep 28, 2022, 3:59 AM

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yes, that's fine

keen pike Sep 28, 2022, 4:00 AM

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ok awesome, thank you!

misty lance Sep 28, 2022, 4:00 AM

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it's just the search api like it mentions here : https://stripe.com/docs/search#data-freshness

keen pike Sep 28, 2022, 4:00 AM

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good to know 👍

misty lance Sep 28, 2022, 4:01 AM

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to add on

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you could save the discord id, map it to a Customer id in your DB (i'm assuming that the customer is already created). Then retrieve the customer with the Customer Id

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well...anyway, i'm sure you'll be playing around with the API to figure out what works best, feel free to reach out if you have any other questions

#Derek Lance