#Nadiya - payment description
stoic magnet
Hello, which description are you looking to customize here?
Like the one that shows up on a certain API object or on bank statements to something?
fickle bane
this one 👇
its not possible for the connected account holders to know what are these payments for.
so i would like to add some informative data as the name.. like.. which product they get paid for
stoic magnet
Ah, I think that that would be the description field on the related payment_intent https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_intents/object#payment_intent_object-description
If you set that there, I believe it should change what shows up on the Dashboard
fickle bane
sorry, i'm using separate charges and transfer.
so should i add description in transfer api?
stoic magnet
Yes, I think so
If that does not set it, then I think you will need to set the description on the charge that the transfer creates on the connected account https://stripe.com/docs/api/transfers/object#transfer_object-destination_payment
fickle bane
Yes, I think so
well.. this doesn't work. let me try the second one
sorry, how do i set the description for expandable object?
stoic magnet
You would just make a separate API call to update that object directly. So in this case, that destination_payment field contains the ID of a charge object that is located on the connected account
So you can update it using the charges update call https://stripe.com/docs/api/charges/update#update_charge-description
And keep in mind that the Charge lives on the connected account so you would need to pass in their ID to make the call as them https://stripe.com/docs/api/connected_accounts
fickle bane
ok, where can i get the charge id from transfer object?
stoic magnet
The destination_payment property on the Transfer is the charge ID that you need to update
fickle bane
"destination_payment": "py_1Kz4VZQT8FUuJFHIQkbNC4SD",
this is my destination_payment id.
Doesn't charge id starts with ch_xxxx?
stoic magnet
Actually both py_ and ch_ IDs in the API both represent Charges.
There some fun historical reasons behind the terminology and prefixes here, but you can update py_1Kz4VZQT8FUuJFHIQkbNC4SD with the charge update call
fickle bane
updated the charge description, but on express account it still showing that default mesage
stoic magnet
Gotcha. Sorry about that, I don't know where this description is coming from then. I will reach out to my colleagues to help look deeper in to this.
fickle bane
sure, thank you!
stoic magnet
Interesting, our docs say to do exactly what you just did https://stripe.com/docs/connect/customize-express-dashboard#separate-charges-and-transfers
Is py_1Kz4VZQT8FUuJFHIQkbNC4SD specifically the payment that you just updated?
fickle bane
tr_1Kz4szKWW6Esfew4MHRlHmCR
this one updated description field of charge object
oh sorry! py_1Kz4szQT8FUuJFHIGtiWwAGb
this one
stoic magnet
Thank you. I will be able to check in to it in a minute.
Is that the payment from the very top of the dashboard that you sent a screenshot of or something?
fickle bane
yes
stoic magnet
Apologies from dropping off this thread for a bit. I am looking in to that payment now