#geoffrey.roberts
uneven cairn
ruby gust
Hello! No, that's not possible. A Charge's Customer cannot be altered after the fact. Can you tell me more about your use case? I might be able to recommend an alternative approach.
rare gate
I work for a church looking at using Stripe for its charitable Giving. We have some fun edge cases, like husband and wife parishioners share computers, logins, etc. So maybe the 'wrong' person was logged in and made a gift/payment, and then, after the fact, they would like that gift/payment attributed to the other person.
ruby gust
Gotcha. In that case I recommend you add some metadata to the Charge to indicate the correct Customer. For example, you could add a metadata key called customer_override and set the value to the Customer ID you want instead: https://stripe.com/docs/api/charges/update#update_charge-metadata
rare gate
We control mapping of Stripe Customers to person/user profiles on our end of course, and we have some other thoughts on how to build a tracking mechanism to describe such re-attributions. We were just kind of hoping there was an easy way! 🙂 But I COMPLETELY understand why not (and anticipated that answer; I was instructed to get from 99% certain to 100% certain that you cannot edit the Customer)
Yeah, basically along the lines of what my team was thinking.
woeful edge
Thanks @ruby gust ... any implications froma reconciliation process that you have seen/know of? Metdata is exactly what we thought of too, and that suffices the requirement of "audit trail"