Stripe Bi-Weekly Subscription Description - php

Question

Using Stripe's PHP API I was able to create a bi-weekly subscription for my customers but I'm having an issue, the "description" on all subscriptions is defaulting to "Subscription creation" and I can't seem to find a way to add a description although I thought the following code worked in the past (I updated the API since then). Please see my code below
case "BiWeekly":
try {
$product = \Stripe\Product::create([
"name" => "NEO Bi-Weekly Payments for $cname",
"type" => "service",
"statement_descriptor" => "NEO",
]);
$plan = \Stripe\Plan::create([
"product" => $product->id,
"amount" => $totalAmount,
"currency" => "usd",
"interval" => "week",
"interval_count" => 2,
"usage_type" => "licensed",
]);
$subscription = \Stripe\Subscription::create([
"customer" => $customer->id,
"items" => [["plan" => $plan->id]],
"metadata" => array("Name" => $cname, "For" => "NEO Bi-Wkly Pymts")
]);
} catch(\Stripe\Error\Card $e) {
$body = $e->getJsonBody();
$err = $body['error'];
header("Location: https://www.neo.com/declined/");
exit();
};
break;
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

As clarified in the comments - description='Subscription creation' is on the corresponding PaymentIntent (not the Subscription).
There's no easy way to do this - it's not possible to specify a description when creating the Subscription to automatically populate on the corresponding PaymentIntent.
What I suggest is to :
Create the Subscription with metadata
listen for the invoice.payment_succeeded webhook event - https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks
The invoice.payment_succeeded will contain the metadata from step 1 in lines and the payment_intent
Example
...
"lines": {
"object": "list",
"data": [
{
"id": "il_...",
"object": "line_item",
...
"metadata": {
"subscription_metadata": "some_value"
},
...
"payment_intent": "pi_...",
...
using the data from step 3, make a request to update the PaymentIntent's description
On a side note, you should no longer be creating Plans (which is deprecated), but should be creating Prices instead.