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[fair dawn]

it take a key-value pair

[frank creek]

and value cant be array?

[fair dawn]

https://stripe.com/docs/api/metadata

[frank creek]

okay 500 characters long is my problem probably

thx

[fair dawn]

no it should be a string

[frank creek]

aw rly?

so the value only takes string?

or int i guess

[fair dawn]

the int will be "stringified"

[frank creek]

is there a better way to store products in the payment intent? bcs my products are deeply nested

[fair dawn]

Checkout is not an option for you?

[frank creek]

this? https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions

[fair dawn]

The easiest way is to create an Order on your side, and pass the client_reference_id

[fair dawn]

yes

[frank creek]

would this replace the payment intent?

[fair dawn]

you have 2 options here, you can use Checkout Session and this would mean that you will redirect your customer to our Hosted Checkout page but you can have your line_items (the different products) saved in Stripe

[frank creek]

and option 2?

[fair dawn]

or you can create the Order/Checkout basket in your own database and just pass in the metadata the id of that object

[frank creek]

hmm okay i think im gonna do this, thank you

just out of curiosity, why cant you put arrays in the metadata?

could be useful, right?

[fair dawn]

this is not possible I'm afraid, we can't allow people to use the metadata as a database

[frank creek]

i see, fair