Changes to Customer objects locally

[iqbalabd]

I was trying out dj-stripe to better understand its concepts, and I have a question:

I understand that if I make changes on Stripe's dashboard, based on what events I choose to receive, Stripe will send data over the webhook and will update dj-stripe's Customer model accordingly.

Is it possible to do it the other way around? For example, I tried changing the email address for one of my Customer and saved the object, but the data on my Stripe dashboard stays the same. I was expecting dj-stripe to make calls to Stripe's API automatically and update the data on Stripe too but it seems that that's not happening.

Is this the correct way to make changes to data, or should changes be done on Stripe only?

[kavdev]

As of right now, we consider Stripe the source of truth.

We have plans to better connect django actions on stripe objects with the stripe api, but for now you can make changes to stripe objects locally using the stripe sdk under each dj-stripe object

[mhrmsn]

Hi @kavdev, just for clarification:

you can make changes to stripe objects locally using the stripe sdk under each dj-stripe object

Is the Stripe SDK or API somewhere exposed on the djstripe models?

Or just by obtaining the id of the djstripe model and then using the Stripe SDK as usual, for example:

import stripe
stripe.api_key = settings.STRIPE_TEST_SECRET_KEY

stripe.Customer.modify(
    djstripe_customer_instance.id,
    ...
)

[kavdev]

Mainly the latter. There is a way to access the stripe class for each object, but you'd still have to fill out the arguments for each method you want to use.

[janbaykara]

Feel that this should be clearly stated in the docs. CC #1633

[arnav13081994]

@iqbalabd dj-stripe syncs your stripe data to your local db. We do not update anything on your stripe dashboard so any changes made locally using dj-stripe and its methods will not propagate upstream to your Stripe Account.

@mhrmsn The code you wrote is using the python-stripe library to call its api to make changes. You are modifying your upstream Stripe Account and hence once the changes are made over there, they should be updated in your local db as well.

I hope that clears it up.