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limpid stratusBOT Mar 28, 2023, 2:43 PM

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quaint wind Mar 28, 2023, 2:52 PM

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Hi there

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No you can't retrieve deleted customers

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Why do you want/need this info?

glossy tangle Mar 28, 2023, 2:53 PM

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We have a cache of Stripe objects, and we have reason to believe its not syncing properly with Stripe. I.e. the customer count doesn't add up, and I'm trying to account for it.

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Okay that's what I thought; I was hoping there was a way in the dashboard where I could export it as an alternative to the API, but I figure it just uses those APIs.

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For example I'm aware of at least one bug where we'd have deleted the customer in Stripe, but we wouldn't update our cache, and I don't know to what extent that covers the discrepancy.

quaint wind Mar 28, 2023, 2:57 PM

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Gotcha

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You are best off just listing your current Customers then and cross-referencing

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You won't be able to get data on deleted Customers

glossy tangle Mar 28, 2023, 2:58 PM

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Yeah in this case I just want to know if they're deleted, and I know if I use the retrieve API, I'll get back deleted: true on the stub customer object returned.

quaint wind Mar 28, 2023, 2:59 PM

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Ah right

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I did forget about that

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Well in that case you could loop through your Customer IDs then

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Just beware of rate limits

glossy tangle Mar 28, 2023, 3:00 PM

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Yeah I could get the list of non-deleted customers from Stripe and find the difference between that and Firestore, and then hit the retrieve API with that difference set to see if those customers are deleted

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(Firestore is our cache)

quaint wind Mar 28, 2023, 3:00 PM

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Yep that seems like a good way to go imo

glossy tangle Mar 28, 2023, 3:00 PM

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Okay thanks for your help

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