rogue_ram

[cyan stream]

Can you share the request ID (req_xxx) that you created a customer with metadata? Here’s how you can find it: https://support.stripe.com/questions/finding-the-id-for-an-api-request

[lament berry]

can it be a customer made in test mode?

[cyan stream]

Yup! That's fine

[lament berry]

req_4Xv4hzfOdJJJvb

[cyan stream]

I'm able to see the user_id metadata in the Dashboard here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/customers/cus_OAvIVsYSah7J4R

[lament berry]

Hm, it doesn't show in the webhook though nor does my server recive it

which it relies on to complete the request

heres the event im talking about:
https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/events/evt_1NOZV8Dn9VRyIkutKd35mKwp

[cyan stream]

I see! Metadata on an object doesn't get populated to the different object. In this case, your metadata is set on the Customer object and it won't be populated in Invoice object like the one in evt_1NOZV8Dn9VRyIkutKd35mKwp

This is expected

Stripe doesn't populate metadata from one object to another

[lament berry]

Ohh okay, that makes sense. If i were to get the customer object after the payment was completed could i extract the user_id from there?

(sorry for misunderstanding)

[cyan stream]

It's possible to get customer from the Invoice object, which you can make additional Customer retrieval request to get the user_id set on Customer object. However, it'll introduce more requests to Stripe. I'd recommend storing the customer ID to your own user ID in your own database and map it from your own database instead of making additional requests.

[lament berry]

Oh yeah that makes sense, thank you for the better method, I'll do that