#robert_subscription-invoice-metadata
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acoustic junco
Hi 👋 I'd suggest setting your metadata at the Subscription level.
When a Subscription generates an Invoice, the Invoice will take a snapshot of the Subscription's metadata and store that in the subscription_details.metadata hash:
https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/object#invoice_object-subscription_details
This is one of the few exceptions where metadata is automatically copied from one object to a related object:
https://docs.stripe.com/metadata#copy-metadata
Let me know if that doesn't work for your flow though.
edgy cipher
Interesting, wasn't aware of that property. I'll need to check, but I would imagine they don't support it. If we can't use that and I'd need to put the metadata directly on the invoice, what would you recommend? Right now it seems like a cron which checks for invoices with a certain product id (and runs some backend code to find & fill metadata) is the best solution
acoustic junco
Yeah, otherwise updating it via an explicit request to update the Invoice, triggered however makes sense for your flow (though listening for invoice.created Events with a webhook endpoint could be a good option), would be the approach I'd suggest exploring.
edgy cipher
Right, of course - all very useful, thank you! Don't have any more questions for the time being
acoustic junco
Happy to help!
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