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pastel vessel Jun 9, 2022, 5:05 AM

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hi there! which parameter are you using to set the metadata on an individual item?

paper sail Jun 9, 2022, 5:06 AM

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stripe.subscriptions.create > items.metadata

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const sub = stripe.subscriptions.create({
  items: [{ metadata: {'key': 'value'}, ...otherParams}]
})

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something like that ^

pastel vessel Jun 9, 2022, 5:13 AM

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you're correct that there's no way to add metadata this way to the phase. What is the metadata which you're adding to an item? would it be possible to workaround this by applying the metadata to the Subscription instead : https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-phases-metadata ?

paper sail Jun 9, 2022, 5:23 AM

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I tag individual line items for reporting in my system -- I am a platform account and use express accounts

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Also -- I generate my own invoices -- and use the line item metadata on subscriptions to store text that can be displayed on my invoices.

But I am updating things now to use subscription schedules (they didn't exist when I first created my system) but not having the metadata there on the line items is going to throw things off unfortuantely

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And yes -- i think I am going to have to do some thing with the metadata on the subscription for this one instead of the line items. Unfortunate extra logic I'll have to maintain

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I have a followup question @pastel vessel

Is there a webhook that fires when a subscription schedule starts a subscription? Like when it transitions from schedule -> acutal subscription?

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I don't see documentation on that actual "switch" happening (basically when the subscription becomes active -- which could be the subscription.created? webhook, but I am unsure if that will actually fire here or not)

pastel vessel Jun 9, 2022, 5:32 AM

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yes, you would get the usual subscription webhooks e.g. customer.subscription.created, customer.subscription.updated, etc. The event you receive would depend on the change you're making in that phase

paper sail Jun 9, 2022, 5:34 AM

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ok great. thanks. I think I'll just have a webhook handler then for customer.subscription.created/updated that updates the line items with the correct metadata -- which should handle the issue I am facing.
Thanks

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