coryschires - billing details | Stripe Developers | Page 1

coarse dew Feb 23, 2022, 6:09 PM

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Hello yes that's for record keeping. It should show on invoices as well

gritty cloak Feb 23, 2022, 6:12 PM

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Thanks! Good to know. Can you point me to a doc or pic of how it displays on the invoice?

solar geode Feb 23, 2022, 6:15 PM

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I recommend just testing it quickly in the Dashboard, should take a few seconds!

gritty cloak Feb 23, 2022, 6:15 PM

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Some background... We allow customers to add custom info to their invoices using your API (i.e. invoice_settings["custom_fields"] = ...). But, unfortunately, that feature is limited to 30 characters per field value.

But that limitation is not present in the "Billing Details" sidebar.

So I am trying to figure out how those two – pretty similar seeming features – differ.

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koopajah: I will try it

solar geode Feb 23, 2022, 6:16 PM

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yeah please don't use billing details to display information like that

gritty cloak Feb 23, 2022, 6:18 PM

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Okay. So invoice_settings["custom_fields"] is for stuff like "Vendor Code: 12345". And "Billing Details" is for stuff like address?

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I'm just trying to understand the intended purpose / best-practice for these two fields

solar geode Feb 23, 2022, 6:20 PM

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yes it's the address information of the customer

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it maps to https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/object#customer_object-address

gritty cloak Feb 23, 2022, 6:21 PM

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Oh. So I can set that value (i.e. the "Billing Details" stuff) via the API? Looks like, "yes".

dusk silo Feb 23, 2022, 6:23 PM

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Yup, it's the first parameter listed in the section of the docs on updating the Customer object: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/update

gritty cloak Feb 23, 2022, 7:01 PM

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Thanks for the hlep!

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