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narrow stone Apr 15, 2022, 6:30 PM

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@pastel kindle no, you have to write code to do this by listening for invoice.created events and then set the metadata you need

pastel kindle Apr 15, 2022, 6:42 PM

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So will the invoice show the metadata

narrow stone Apr 15, 2022, 6:46 PM

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It will show the metadata if you code explicitly updates that invoice

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it won't otherwise

severe canopy Apr 15, 2022, 6:53 PM

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If you are setting the metadata directly on the Subscription, it will appear on the invoice's line items for that subscription.
https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/line_item#invoice_line_item_object-metadata
If you want the metadata on the Invoice itself so that it shows up on the dashboard , you will need to explicitly set the metadata as koopajah said.

Stripe API reference – The (Invoice) Line Item object – curl

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pastel kindle Apr 15, 2022, 8:07 PM

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Ok, so if we add metadata to the subscription it will show that metadata in the invoice line description, but not the actual invoice that is sent to customers?

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We have a customer that has 10 different subscriptions, but they need to know how to identify those subscriptions.. So we need to add something to the invoice that says "This subscription is for Store A"

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@severe canopy

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@narrow stone

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Sorry for the delayed response

severe canopy Apr 15, 2022, 8:09 PM

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No worries at all

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The metadata would not set the description like that.

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Do you have an example ID from a subscription here that I can look at?

pastel kindle Apr 15, 2022, 8:11 PM

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I have a customer object that I can show you to explain the issue?

severe canopy Apr 15, 2022, 8:11 PM

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Sure that could be helpful as well

pastel kindle Apr 15, 2022, 8:13 PM

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This customer (cus_L79cXQaZvM6clg) is an enterprise account. They have 11 different subscriptions with us. When they get an invoice, it only shows the name of the primary company on all of their invoices.

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But they need to know the store that each invoice/subscription is for.

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So this is one of their subscriptions (sub_1KotSSCSlBkOK22m1jbBZhMR) and it's for "Store A" (for example)... We need to add "Store A" somewhere on this subscriptions invoice.

severe canopy Apr 15, 2022, 8:16 PM

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Gotcha. I think you will have to explicitly set this with an API call somewhere. Trying to figure out the best place...

pastel kindle Apr 15, 2022, 8:19 PM

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Bummer... I feel like a lot of companies would want something like this. Did we maybe design it incorrectly?

severe canopy Apr 15, 2022, 8:22 PM

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I have a feeling that this may be easier to set up than I think and that I am forgetting the field to set it on.

pastel kindle Apr 15, 2022, 8:23 PM

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I thought we would be able to update it using the Invoice Templates, but there doesn't seem to be any configuration there that would do this.

severe canopy Apr 15, 2022, 8:24 PM

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You could probably easily set this as the description/memo on the Invoice https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/update#update_invoice-description

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And you are correct, the template is more for something that will apply to everyone. Customizing each customer's invoice like this is typically done with the API at the moment

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Unfortunately I am not seeing this as a setting on the subscription. Right now you might want to do something like set the shop name as metadata on the Subscription and use that to specify the shop name in the memo on the actual Invoice when you get the invoice.created event

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