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cursive tusk Oct 18, 2021, 8:49 AM

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I believe plan status and current period end can be retrieved via Stripe API based on the customer ID, so you can leave it to Stripe to manage those information

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Generally speaking, not storing them reduces the cost of double-management

worn narwhal Oct 18, 2021, 8:51 AM

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in that case, you would query Stripe for every request to check if a subscription is active -> the customer is allowed to access the features they are paying for?

undone sentinel Oct 18, 2021, 8:53 AM

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it's generally better to store that in your database, https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks#tracking describes an integration pattern for that.

worn narwhal Oct 18, 2021, 8:53 AM

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in "Tracking active subscriptions" (https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks#tracking) you mention storing a current_period_end, which I assume is in addition to a customer_id and a plan

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jinx !

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anywho, what I was wondering, is if there are any additional things you generally recommend to also store in your database

undone sentinel Oct 18, 2021, 8:54 AM

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nothing I can think of really

worn narwhal Oct 18, 2021, 8:57 AM

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sweet!

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when creating a Subscription and Customer through a Checkout Session, I see that the client_reference_id can be supplied to "reconcile the session with your internal systems".

is this where I would specify eg. the user_id that corresponds to the user in my database?

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and will this field be returned in the checkout.session.completed webhook?

undone sentinel Oct 18, 2021, 9:02 AM

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I would use metadata (https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-metadata) instead of client_reference_id but yes you can use it for that and yes it's returned in that webhook

Stripe API reference – Create a Session

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worn narwhal Oct 18, 2021, 9:03 AM

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oh, okay! it sounds like that's what it's for, but is using metadata an easier or superior way? I guess with metadata it would be visible in the dashboard as well?

undone sentinel Oct 18, 2021, 9:03 AM

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yes metadata is more structured and appears in the dashboard

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basically Checkout didn't support metadata when it launched and client_reference_id was the stopgap

worn narwhal Oct 18, 2021, 9:03 AM

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aaah

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makes sense

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thank you for the quick and helpful responses!

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hope you both have a wonderful week 🙂

worn narwhal Oct 18, 2021, 11:23 AM

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does it make sense to store the subscription ID, or would you just fetch this on demand via the customer id?

undone sentinel Oct 18, 2021, 11:30 AM

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it makes sense, sort of depends on where you'll be trying to get that information and if the latency of a GET request is important to your app in that flow

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