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- sz, 18 hours ago, 76 messages
lament pendant
Hi there, did you set the metadata on the checkout session or on the product object?
limber cobalt
On the product object
This is the product in question
https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/products/prod_PQSuNBqNZhnc0s
lament pendant
And did you expand product in your webhook handling?
limber cobalt
I don't think I did that. What I did instead was fetch the line items associated to the checkout.session.complete
This is the code associated
const lineItems = await stripe.checkout.sessions.listLineItems(
event.data.object.id,
{ stripeAccount: event.account }
)
console logging the lineItems would return the following
{
"object": "list",
"data": [
{
"id": "li_1ObcqPJVArmNjTxQFlFxHMNY",
"object": "item",
"amount_discount": 0,
"amount_subtotal": 3000,
"amount_tax": 0,
"amount_total": 3000,
"currency": "usd",
"description": "50 Credits",
"price": {
"id": "price_1ObbysJVArmNjTxQg3DcXQhG",
"object": "price",
"active": true,
"billing_scheme": "per_unit",
"created": 1705985582,
"currency": "usd",
"custom_unit_amount": null,
"livemode": false,
"lookup_key": null,
"metadata": {},
"nickname": null,
"product": "prod_PQSuNBqNZhnc0s",
"recurring": null,
"tax_behavior": "unspecified",
"tiers_mode": null,
"transform_quantity": null,
"type": "one_time",
"unit_amount": 1500,
"unit_amount_decimal": "1500"
},
"quantity": 2
}
],
"has_more": false,
"url": "/v1/checkout/sessions/cs_test_a1rqSqoNxlUik6YjcAgAkfULQpFgYK43vrm9bJ7R3jWGBL6hSVKwDsJiVr/line_items"
}
You need to expand product if you want to get its metadata
limber cobalt
I see. I have another question then. When a product is created via the API, will a new price also be created as well?
And will it always have a 1 to 1 mapping from the newly created product to the price?
lament pendant
No, you need to create a price seperately
limber cobalt
Just to make sure I'm understanding this correctly.
If a product is created through the stripe.products.create method
Then a subsequent call to stripe.price.create would need to be made with the previous product id in order to link it?
For more context, I'm building out a stripe app that allows for merchants to implement credit based usage for their platform (ie: user spends 5 credits in order to generate AI icon and would need to top up on credits to generate more icons)
I'm planning on using the metadata to determine how many credits will be awarded to the user based on the product they purchase.
Right now, I'm debating whether it would be more appropriate to store the metadata of the credits in the product or in the price
lament pendant
That's entirely up to you
limber cobalt
hmmm Let me reframe this.
Is the only way to fetch the product metadata from a checkout.session.complete event is through the following steps:
- call
stripe.checkout.session.listLineItems - map over
lineItemsand callstripe.products.retrieve - extract product metadata from products
lament pendant
There's a quicker way, you can just call checkout session retrieval API and expand line_items.data.price.product
https://stripe.com/docs/expand Read this to learn how to expand response
