#meteograms - Checkout
teal flower
Hello! You can add a description on each line item: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-line_items-description
Would that work for your use case?
rigid oxide
I'll try and get back to you. The description I want to add is about a deferred charge (setup fee) that I'm adding to the first invoice (after trial ends), so ideally it would appear in its own line and not as part of another. But I'll see.
teal flower
The line item descriptions are the only option I can think of for this; there's no way to put an arbitrary message in Checkout outside of the line items.
rigid oxide
OK, maybe a line_item for a price that is zero (explaining that it's nothing to pay now, but xxx will be charged at the end of the trial)?
teal flower
That may work! Does it behave correctly when you test it?
rigid oxide
Was just about to update you... adding description does nothing 😕
teal flower
Ah, that's unfortunate. You must be using a Checkout mode that doesn't support displaying the description.
rigid oxide
It just states the product name on the line, with no description
Checkout mode is subscription
doesn't say anything in the docs about description not being supported in this mode: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-line_items-description
teal flower
I don't know that it's an explicitly documented limitation. Let me check internally, hang on...
Yep, confirmed subscription mode does not show descriptions. It's being considered for the future, but no ETA or anything like that.
rigid oxide
OK thanks, so it's not possible to add any sort of custom annotations or description in subscription mode at present 😢
😢
teal flower
Unfortunately that's correct, yep. It's something we're considering as a feature request, but no idea if/when something like that will be released.
teal flower
Yep! 🙂