#TMO
mint harness
Hey
Can I do this or do I just spin up a new payment link each time I need to attach metadat?
kind hawk
Hello 👋
What's the usecase here exactly?
mint harness
So I want to use payment links for subscriptions, I need to attach an identifier to each subscription so I can retrieve it later using the search api
It's possible for my users to delete their accounts on my side, so I need a way to re-check if they already have an active subscription if they come back.
Should I just spin up new payment links?
It just seemed wasteful
I don't want to spam payment links, I'll need a new one for every single customer, is this ok/
kind hawk
I am a bit confused with how you'd check if they have an active subscription exactly after passing the metadata?
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kind hawk
what are you planning to add into metadata?
mint harness
it's a place_id from a Google Business
signal garnet
It looks like the client reference ID is how we recommend tracking payments from payment links https://stripe.com/docs/payment-links/url-parameters#streamline-reconciliation-with-a-url-parameter
It wouldn't automatically go on the subscription but you could listen for the checkout.session.completed event and use it to add the reference ID to the subscription's metadata
mint harness
There's no way do just do this on the fly? Just straight up pass metadata into the payment link have it attach to the subscription automatically?
signal garnet
Unfortunately not
signal garnet
Those wouldn't transfer to the subscription. So you can use them but you would also have to listen for an event and copy them over with the API
mint harness
I'm guessing this is a payment links limitation, should I just use the low-code stripe checkout option instead?
I assume I can pass metadata via the checkout session directly into the meta data there
for a subscription
signal garnet
Yes for Checkout you can definitely do this. There is a subscription_data parameter that you can pass metadata in to when creating a Checkout Session and that metadata will be set on the subscription automatically
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