whizyyy-customer-search

[hot mantle]

Hello! I assume you want to use the Search API? I'd recommend looking at https://stripe.com/docs/search#metadata and https://stripe.com/docs/search#charges-metadata-search for examples on how to do this

[sullen kelp]

Let me give it a try

@hot mantle nice it is working! However it appear that the Customer object have subscriptions field to null, but on my dashboard the customer have active subscriptions, why that?

[hot mantle]

subscriptions on the Customer (https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/object#customer_object-subscriptions) is an expandable field and will be null by default if you don't expand it (https://stripe.com/docs/expand)

[twilit birch]

@sullen kelp we do recommend using https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/list instead

whizyyy-customer-search

[sullen kelp]

Oh really?

[sullen kelp]

This way actually work. I would like to check if a customer retrieved by my custom metadata has a specific subscriptions and if so, get the quantity, which way do you recommend the most for this?

[twilit birch]

the way @hot mantle mentioned works. I'd personally recommend caching all of this in your database

[sullen kelp]

I am actually caching it

[twilit birch]

then you shouldn't need to hit our API to know if they have a Subscription

[sullen kelp]

I prefer to fetch your API when my application boot to be sure I didnt missed any of your webhook that could false the subscriptions data. Is this a wrong way to use Stripe?

[twilit birch]

I would say yes, it's not a great design since it requires you re-ingesting all data all the time. It's not bad, but as you grow/scale you will hit potential issues with rate limits overall

[sullen kelp]

Well, I will reconsider the way I'm managing this, thanks for your fast support

[twilit birch]

happy to help 🙂