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glass dome
Hi! My understanding is that you would like to have a custom invoice number. You are either looking at changing it on the invoice itself or add it to the metadata correct?
glass dome
This is the only way to customise the invoice number:
- https://support.stripe.com/questions/customize-your-invoice-number
- https://docs.stripe.com/invoicing/customize#invoice-numbering-schemes
If you want further customise it, you can set your custom invoice number as the phase's metadata: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-phases-metadata
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steel crane
đź‘‹ taking over for my colleague. Let me know if there's any follow-up Qs I can answer!
buoyant torrent
Hi! Thanks again for your support.
Just to confirm — is the invoice.number field strictly read-only and cannot be customized via the API (even through invoice.created webhooks or updates)?
If so, I understand the alternative would be to store our custom invoice number in metadata during the subscription schedule creation.
In that case, is there a way to make that custom number visible to the customer on the final PDF invoice? For example, can it be shown via custom_fields or in the footer?
steel crane
you can customize the invoice number https://docs.stripe.com/invoicing/customize#invoice-numbering-schemes either ​​sequentially for each customer or sequentially across your account
buoyant torrent
Thanks for the clarification!
Unfortunately, the standard invoice numbering scheme (sequential per customer or across the account) doesn’t work for our use case.
We need to assign a custom invoice number per subscription, following our internal numbering rules — for example, based on an ERP code or contract reference.
That’s why we were considering using metadata to store our own custom number.
Is there any way to make that metadata value visible to the customer on the PDF invoice (e.g. via custom_fields or footer) so that it appears as the reference number instead of Stripe’s autogenerated one?
Thanks again!
steel crane
I suggest before going into other solutions to contact https://support.stripe.com/?contact=true and see whether there's a private feature that we offer that could solve your problem
otherwise custom_fields could be the way to go