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hardy torrentBOT Jan 31, 2025, 3:39 PM

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davidstanton_api, 53 minutes ago, 58 messages

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muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 3:41 PM

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We close threads when they become inactive

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What's your question?

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 3:43 PM

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the asked me a question and didnt give me chance to respond, close out, thats really not good service there. The question is ho can I get variables on to here with the api:

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i have now got the domain onto the invocie by using "custom fields" and the domain is on the payments description, but i cant for the life of me , get it/ them onto the invoice descriptions, so as they show in above and ideally, actually on the invoice next to the subscription

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 3:49 PM

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Hm I'm not sure that what's shown there is the description field on an invoice

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Can you share one of those invoice id's from the screenshot so I can take a look where the portal is pulling that from?

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The customer portal in general has limited customizability, so it may be that you can't change what's displayed there. Not sure

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 3:50 PM

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in_1QnMDVE7dsAdGvZeyHup2u51

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i've done it everywhere i need to do it apart from in these bits, highly fustrating

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down here perfect, just not on the actual invoice

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:01 PM

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I don't see Adysis Floors for prebid - Monthly explicitly set like that in any of the fields, so I'm assuming this is some shortened description that Customer Portal is using

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I don't see a way to customize this

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The Invoice's description field is set to something entirely different, so it's definitely not pulling that

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:02 PM

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its coming from a product name? i setup 6 different products, which are my subscriptions

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:03 PM

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Ah that is the exact product name

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Probably is that

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:04 PM

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look here:pi_3QnMDWE7dsAdGvZe06Sk9UWm you can see at the botom, your right the invoice "description" seesm to be something completelky different, so the question then, is why is it completly different, hw is anyone ment to know what they are doing when the field dont even match variables lol

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this correct

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:06 PM

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That's the payment intent description not the invoice description

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Invoice description is set to Thanks you for your business with Spormeon Ltd T/A Adysis

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Which is coming from your dashboard settings

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Invoice description is the same as the memo field on the dashboard

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:08 PM

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this some wild , random description. i think its from "live site" "default memo"

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:08 PM

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Yeah it is

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Memo is the same thing as Invoice Description

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I get it's a bit confusing

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There's several description fields

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:09 PM

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it should be "memo" in the schema lol

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how can anyone work out the logic, when there is no logic, its crazy

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i got it to the meta here, but that dont display out anywhere

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:15 PM

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metadata isn't displayed anywhere. that's just for use in your app if you need to store some extra fields

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We have a doc on metadata usecases here: https://docs.stripe.com/metadata

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:15 PM

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ye dont worry about that doc, that not the question here

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:15 PM

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What's the question

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:16 PM

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whats the api call to get to set that line: description

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:16 PM

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The one within the line item?

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That's set automatically for subscriptions

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you don't control that

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:17 PM

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lines.data.description

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:17 PM

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Yeah that's generated automatically

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Based on quantity of the product and its price

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:18 PM

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so there is a massive "black hole" here then, someone has designed the api, so you can add something where i want it lol, great

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isurely cant be the first person to want to "pass a domain" this is the internet afterall

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can the product name be "chnaged on the fly" with the api, before it gets to invoice?

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:21 PM

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You don't need to pass product id to the checkout session. If you want to define it on the fly you can via product_data. That would allow you to set the product name on a per-checkout session basis: https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-line_items-price_data-product_data-name

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:22 PM

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and that will pass through and display in the user portal on those invocie line items?

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:23 PM

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It should. I don't know if there's a character limit for what the customer portal displays though. Recommend testing it out in test mode to make sure it displays how you want it

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:24 PM

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cant you mock it there, see if it works?

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and where is product_data in that docs you put?

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:28 PM

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dark jacinth cant you mock it there, see if it works?

Give me a bit and I can test it for you if you want

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:28 PM

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dark jacinth and where is product_data in that docs you put?

What do you mean?

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:29 PM

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you mean:line_items.price_data.product_data.name

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and dont close me out please, its friday afternoon here adn i'll be gone soon, i might not see the mock till monday

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:32 PM

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We don't leave threads open. We handle many threads, so we only keep open the ones that are active. You will still have access to closed threads though

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You can view old threads

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:33 PM

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dark jacinth you mean:line_items.price_data.product_data.name

yes

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And I tested this and it works as expected

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For example:

                {
                    "price_data": {
                        "currency": "usd",
                        "unit_amount": 1000,
                        "recurring": {"interval": "month"},
                        "product_data": {"name": "My test product name"},
                    },
                    "quantity": 1,
                ```

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My test product name shows in the customer portal's invoice history

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:34 PM

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got screenshot or so, can you give me full api call, anything that helps

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are you doing this in your own backend, cant you do it in mine, so i can see it etc?, in my "test mode"?

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:36 PM

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dark jacinth are you doing this in your own backend, cant you do it in mine, so i can see it ...

no i cannot

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I did it on my own test account

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I don't have access to your account

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What do you need exactly?

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I shared the params you need to pass above

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:37 PM

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everything, api calls etc, least i can "mock" it my end in workbench then etc adn see the flow etc etc

muted stone Jan 31, 2025, 4:38 PM

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In your checkout session creation request, pass price_data and product_data like I did here: #1334910932782026849 message instead of price id and product id. You just need to modify your existing api calls

dark jacinth Jan 31, 2025, 4:41 PM

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ok thansk, i'll try it

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