#worth12_api
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swift ginkgo
Hello! I’m not entirely clear on the issue you’re experiencing. Could you please clarify what you mean by, 'I tried passing it as metadata in the checkout session, but I can’t find a way to use that on my server side with the customer object'?
quartz charm
Absolutely, I am trying to pass the userId (id of a user in my database) to the checkout, and have it accessable within the Customer object. This is so I can have that userId when handling the customer.create webhook.
swift ginkgo
okay, firstly, how did you try to pass the userId to the Checkout session?
quartz charm
Here is my api:
const session = await stripe.checkout.sessions.create({
line_items: [
{
price: PRICE_ID,
quantity: 1,
},
],
mode: "subscription",
return_url: ${YOUR_DOMAIN}/return?session_id={CHECKOUT_SESSION_ID},
ui_mode: "custom",
metadata: {
"userId": userId,
},
client_reference_id: userId,
});
swift ginkgo
Based on the code snippet you shared, it looks like Stripe is automatically creating a Customer for you. You'd like this automatically created Customer to include the metadata you've passed in, correct?
quartz charm
yes, exactly!
sorry for the kind of poor problem explanation
swift ginkgo
What you'll need to do is make a subsequent request to update the automatically created Customer with the metadata. Unfortunately, there’s no way for the automatically created Customer to include the metadata you provided via the Checkout Session by default.
On a side note, I'll suggest also passing the metadata into subscription_data.metadata (for mode="subscription"). This way, the Subscription will contain that metadata, and so will the Invoice Line Items. https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-subscription_data-metadata
quartz charm
Okay, sounds good. Thank you!