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delicate bobcatBOT Dec 19, 2025, 1:52 AM

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cinder thistle Dec 19, 2025, 1:53 AM

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to clarify, what do you mean by "optional items"?

royal olive Dec 19, 2025, 1:53 AM

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it is recommendation items section in the payment link

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this field here

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those payment link endpoint not return that field when i tryna get it

cinder thistle Dec 19, 2025, 1:55 AM

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Ah I see, okay. Could you share with me your payment link please

royal olive Dec 19, 2025, 1:55 AM

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https://buy.stripe.com/00w14mbyIbHLem79opejK03

cinder thistle Dec 19, 2025, 1:56 AM

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thank you, give me a moment to check

royal olive Dec 19, 2025, 1:56 AM

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please and thank you

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well i could POST to update that field, but when I use GET endpoint API i cant get that field back which is weird and i need it for my stripe app development

cinder thistle Dec 19, 2025, 1:59 AM

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so I do see the optional price on your payment link (plink_1Sf48KCkADo8MSdpuaA8wuu3) in our logs
could you share with me the script you ran to retrieve the payment link?

royal olive Dec 19, 2025, 2:00 AM

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const stripe = Stripe(process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY);

const fullPaymentLink = await stripe.paymentLinks.retrieve(paymentLink.id);

cinder thistle Dec 19, 2025, 2:02 AM

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Ah okay, you need to specifically expand [0] the optional_items field, so the script should look like

const fullPaymentLink = await stripe.paymentLinks.retrieve(paymentLink.id, {
  expand: ['optional_items']
});

[0] https://docs.stripe.com/api/expanding_objects

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let me know if you're still blocked

royal olive Dec 19, 2025, 2:04 AM

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okay i got it now thank you

royal olive Dec 19, 2025, 2:07 AM

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cinder thistle Ah okay, you need to specifically expand [0] the optional_items field, so the sc...

did you do anything?? i tried this before but it not worked but now after you told me to try this again it then worked now

cinder thistle Dec 19, 2025, 2:08 AM

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I only added {expand: ['optional_items']}

royal olive Dec 19, 2025, 2:08 AM

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thats weird i added that field before but it returned me an error.... may be it was my mistake. Thank you tho

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