defekt7x - Subscription metadata

[crisp patio]

The only way I can get this to work is to listen for a invoice.created webhook and do the following:

async onInvoiceCreate(event: Stripe.Event) {
    const data = event.data.object as Stripe.Invoice;
    const invoiceId = data.id;

    await this.stripe.invoices.update(invoiceId, {
      metadata: {
        ItemCode: 'code here',
      },
    });

    return true;
  }

I'm not sure if that's ideal but let me know if there's anything that I'm missing here

[buoyant egret]

Yeah that delay does not sound ideal.

Let me take a look

Okay so how are you interacting with the metadata in question?

What do you want it to do?

[crisp patio]

Our integration with Avalara will pick it up. I don't personally have to do anything with it, but Avalara looks for those values to determine which tax code to use

This is their docs page if it's helpful: https://help.avalara.com/FYHP/Avalara_for_Stripe/Connector_for_Stripe_Invoicing/Install_and_Configure_Avalara_AvaTax_for_Stripe_Invoicing/Understand_the_Stripe_Invoicing_metadata_that_impacts_AvaTax#Invoice_metadata

[exotic cliff]

👋 Just hopping in here - give me a minute to catch up

When you set the metadata of the subscription I belive that will automatically copy over that metadata to the invoice line items.

[crisp patio]

Oh, really? I do have some subscription metadata already, and it's definitely not getting set on the invoice metadata but how do I check the invoice line items metadata? Is there a spot for that in the dashboard that I can easily see?

[exotic cliff]

Can you send over the subscription ID? I can take a look real quick

[crisp patio]

Here's a subscription ID: in_1Knn7XCaXW5ee6rAC6b9iBru you'll see the ItemCode invoice metadata and that's because of the webhook that I created and posted above. If we're looking for subscription metadata that should get copied over to the invoice line items, then we're looking for 2 values: productId and trial_period_days

oh sorry that's an invoice ID

[exotic cliff]

That's okay - that gives me enough to start looking

Yup, I can see on that Invoice that it has metadata set on the line items. You can see for yourself if you look at one of the invoice events like https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/events/evt_1Knn7aCaXW5ee6rATQnNzLE6 or if you re-retrieve the invoice

[crisp patio]

Amazing. I'll add ItemCode to the main subscription metadata then. Thanks so much!

[exotic cliff]

👍 happy to help!