asrob - Connect | Stripe Developers | Page 1

old lagoon Jul 26, 2022, 11:51 AM

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Hi there!

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I'm not sure to understand, which part of Stripe Connect do you want to test?

timber stratus Jul 26, 2022, 11:52 AM

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I want to test running a real transaction with a real credit card.

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With Connect it seems like that flow requires two accounts. The main one and then a secondary "child" Connect account even though at least in our case they money will go to the same destination.

old lagoon Jul 26, 2022, 11:54 AM

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That's correct, you need at least the platform account and create one connected account.

timber stratus Jul 26, 2022, 11:54 AM

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I want to choose the primary account but I get "Your account cannot connect to itself..."

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Do you know why that changed? I'm just curious

old lagoon Jul 26, 2022, 11:55 AM

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First you need to decide which type of account you want to use (standard/express/custom): https://stripe.com/docs/connect/accounts
And then create that type of account

timber stratus Jul 26, 2022, 11:56 AM

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Yea I'm pretty sure the primary account is a "Standard" type but we used to be able to connect the account to itself.

old lagoon Jul 26, 2022, 11:58 AM

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Yes the platform account is always Standard account. But the connected account can either be standard/express/custom.

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but we used to be able to connect the account to itself.
I'm not familiar with this flow, but it's not recommended: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/testing#:~:text=Don’t connect the platform account to itself—that fails to reflect the real world use of Connect%2C and makes debugging difficult.

timber stratus Jul 26, 2022, 11:59 AM

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I'll have to look then. I don't remember ever seeing a choice for that but I'm typically testing on staging not production.

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Yea I don't want to "simulate" live mode. I want actual live mode. I'll just have the boss create another account just seems very not intuitive.

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So now there will be two Stripe accounts with the same social / EIN right?

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Headed to the same bank destination.

old lagoon Jul 26, 2022, 12:03 PM

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The whole point of Connect is to send money to different Stripe accounts, so to test that you have to use at least 2 stripe accounts.

Yea I don't want to "simulate" live mode. I want actual live mode.
Note that we strongly recommend testing in test mode only.

timber stratus Jul 26, 2022, 12:04 PM

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Note that we strongly recommend testing in test mode only.

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I guess the part I'm not getting from above is this means your customers test live transactions w/ their customer / client accounts.

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As long as I know the proper flow is to create two accounts I'm fine w/ that just seems unnatural to me especially given it used to not work that way.

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