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Hi there, is there reason why you don't want to listen to checkout.session.completed event?

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Hi Jack! We're using a subscription creation payment so we saw that it's triggered with an invoice.paid

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We also want to monitor for future invoice.paid events

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I don't see a way to retrieve the checkout session from invoice or subscription. What data you want to get from a checkout session object?

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Oh I see. I need the client_reference_id

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OK. I'd suggest you to set a metadata to the subscription through https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-subscription_data-metadata, so that you can get it from the invoice's subscription object when notified by invoice.paid.

[grizzled sail]

Ah got it thanks taking a look

A follow-up question, for future invoice.paid when people pay for next month's subscription

is payment_intent unique to a single customer?

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Yes, in fact payment_intent is unique for each invoice that a subscription generates

[grizzled sail]

Got it thanks for confirming!

So if I use payment_intent to map unique payments I should be good

I'm getting checkout sessions using payment_intent

Does that mean those checkout sessions are unique too?

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Yes, checkout sessions are unique (i.e., one checkout session generates one subscription)

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Got it awesome

thank you

So just to make sure I understand correctly:

1. on invoice.paid event each month for a customer, I get the paymentIntent
2. then I get the checkout sessions using the payment_intent

one strange thing I saw though on Stripe was if I click payment_intent, it maps to a lot of customers

I might be confusing something though, but wanted to double check!

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2) then I get the checkout sessions using the payment_intent -> No, you can't get the checkout session from the payment_intent, because the payment_intent was created by the invoice. But you can get the checkout session for the subscription (https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/list#list_checkout_sessions-subscription), sorry I was wrong earlier, there is way to retrieve a checkout session from a subscription.

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Ah I see

I'm curious what this is doing stripe.checkout.sessions.list({ payment_intent: paymentIntent })

Theoretically I'm not supposed to be able to get the checkout sessions, so is it getting the old ones

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That's for retrieve the payment mode checkout sessions by the payment intent that the checkout session created.

[grizzled sail]

Ah got it thanks