Include product names and sku in Stripe metadata
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<p>It would be helpful to see what products were part of a given order, especially if exporting Stripe transactions as CSV for bookkeeping. Stripe <a href="https://stripe.com/blog/adding-context-with-metadata">includes</a> a metadata field that can hold this information.</p>
<p>This is how I accomplished it (uc_stripe.module):</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br></span><span style="color: #007700">+ </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Set up line items<br></span><span style="color: #007700">+ </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$items </span><span style="color: #007700">= array();<br>+ foreach(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$order</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">products </span><span style="color: #007700">as </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$item</span><span style="color: #007700">){<br>+ </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$items</span><span style="color: #007700">[] = </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$item</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">title</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br>+ }<br> <br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$params </span><span style="color: #007700">= array(<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"amount" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$amount</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"currency" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">strtolower</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$order</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">currency</span><span style="color: #007700">),<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"customer" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$stripe_customer_id</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"description" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">t</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Order #@order_id"</span><span style="color: #007700">, array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"@order_id" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$order_id</span><span style="color: #007700">)),<br> + </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"metadata" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"items" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">implode</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">";"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$items</span><span style="color: #007700">)),<br> );<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>Items are stored as semicolon-separated text. Splitting them into different metadata key-value pairs didn't seem useful because it would result in multiple columns on export, the order of products within which would be random. For my use case, this is information for human eyes.</p>
<p>Additional thoughts:<br>
- An option to turn this on or off would be good.<br>
- An option to append this list to the "description" field might be as good or better.</p>
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