#deathpote - custom IDs

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lone bear
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Unfortunately not. From what I understand custom IDs are still possible, but we recommend against them as they can be confusing if re-used and can sometimes make things harder to debug.

You will need to either store or retrieve these prices if you aren't using them. That being said, you can do something like store custom data as metadata and then build the map by listing your prices and/or looking them up one-by-one via their metadata. I get the reluctance to have a map like this but it can often be worth it.

knotty matrix
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custom IDs are still possible

based on the documentation, custom ids are still possible for Stripe Products, but not for Stripe Prices
source :
product : https://stripe.com/docs/api/products/create
price : https://stripe.com/docs/api/prices/create

(Old prices created with a custom price id keep their original custom id)

That being said, you can do something like store custom data as metadata

The price.lookup_key fits my need to retrieve a price based on a custom key, it's a shame it can't be used anywhere but as a filter for the get prices API.
Or I'll just store a map somewhere, but I really don't like storing maps of ids

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Thanks for your confirmation and your time, I'll update my code to make it work, to be honest this is quite a disappointing deprecation. Removing a functionality because it's confusing when badly used is quite frustrating for people using it correctly

lone bear
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It still exists but is undocumented. If you create a price and explicitly pass price_id, it should create a price with the ID you specify

knotty matrix
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Oh, that's really nice to know, I'll use it for our current needs of new prices. I'll delay the code changes for the next time I have to create new price if this hidden feature is removed ! Thanks a lot !

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is it possible to upvote somewhere to keep this feature in place ?

lone bear
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We don't make changes to existing API versions and we don't really break backwards compatibility so you should be good to use this for a while (as far as I know). I'll see if there is anywhere that I can upvote or +1 keeping the feature though honestly I do not know if there is somewhere to do that internally

knotty matrix
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Let's hope so ! thanks a lot for your time, have a nice day !

lone bear
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Of course, you too!

knotty matrix
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Seems like this feature is already disabled :

Status 400 ERR
ID req_oe8O6Qaed14QTo
Time 7/21/22, 4:35:19 PM
IP address XXXXXXXXXXX
API version 2020-08-27 Latest
Source Stripe/v1 PhpBindings/7.114.0

request :

{
  "recurring": {
    "interval": "month",
    "interval_count": "1"
  },
  "unit_amount": "1",
  "id": "test_custom_id"
,
  "product": "prod_M6BI7DygOpIJ4x",
  "currency": "usd"
}

response :

{
  "error": {
    "code": "parameter_unknown",
    "doc_url": "https://stripe.com/docs/error-codes/parameter-unknown",
    "message": "Received unknown parameter: id",
    "param": "id",
    "type": "invalid_request_error"
  }
}
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Testing with the API version "2018-02-28" and even "2011-06-21" doesn't work either, seems like a undocumented BC break 😭

lone bear
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Can you try it again but with price_id instead of just ID?

knotty matrix
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doesn't work either in 2020-08-27 or 2011-06-21 api versions
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If I'm recalling it right, it may be because in the past we had only products, price are a "recent" addition to stripe.
maybe our prices with custom ids were just old products migrated to new price objects, using by default the old product custom id as price custom id ?

lone bear
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Thanks for testing, I could have sworn this was still possible. I had to help out in a few other threads but am focusing on this now

knotty matrix
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okay, looking back in my logs, I see a price created in dec 15th 2021 :
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{
  "product": "prod_KmXqVuTmLJ37Wf",
  "id": "b2c_24m_fam_v7_online_support_v1",
  "unit_amount_decimal": "12000",
  "recurring": {
    "interval": "year",
    "interval_count": "1",
    "trial_period_days": "0",
    "usage_type": "licensed"
  },
  "nickname": "b2c_24m_fam_v7_online_support_v1",
  "currency": "eur",
  "billing_scheme": "per_unit",
  "expand": [
    "tiers"
  ]
}

Seems that the 'id' field was the correct one ! 2020-08-27 api version, from the Stripe dashboard

lone bear
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Ah I found it. This capability isn't turned on by default for accounts. You can write in to support to ask to enable it though I don't know how often we enable this now unfortunately https://support.stripe.com/?contact=true

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knotty matrix
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! I should have started by this I'm so sorry, I tried to create those custom prices on a new account, not on my legacy account !

lone bear
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Good catch, I was wondering why that call succeeded but the ones from today didn't

knotty matrix
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The custom id field is even displayed in the dashboard on my old account 🤦‍♂️ sorry for bothering you with that !
I'll contact the support to enable this on my new account then, thank you a lot !

lone bear
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No worries, glad we could figure it out

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Thank you for your patience!

knotty matrix
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thanks for yours ! have a nice day !

lone bear
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Right back atcha