#Adnan - Connect
long jetty
Hello, can you expand on your question a bit? What do you mean by "in the same way as a standard account" here?
You can have standard accounts under your platform account. If that is what you are looking for, here is the doc: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/standard-accounts
junior quest
I have a website for sending gift cards, so I make standard connect accounts for my users, and we take our share from the amount they receive.
We want to make an option so the user for example say that 50% of amount they receive will be donated to a charity organization we support.
What are the steps to do support organizations?
Does the organization need to have a connected account to our platform so we add them by account id to payment intent, or can they have their own account without registering and linking it to our connected account?
long jetty
Ah I see, so you want to send funds from your platform to a charity that isn't taking payments under your platform.
To send them funds with Stripe like this, they would need to register some sort of account with you and provide bank info. Are you saying you want to send without them registering with you at all or are you just looking to simplify the registration somehow?
junior quest
If it's possible not to register them at all under my platform, i.e., I don't want to generate a create account link for them but use some permanent id they have.
Or, if not possible, the minimum simple registration method
long jetty
They will need a Stripe account for you to send them funds from your platform with Stripe. Will the users that are taking payments on your platform also be Standard accounts or are you using Express or Custom?
junior quest
Standard only
long jetty
Gotcha, in that case, I'm actually not sure if there is much that you can do to ease the signup process. I think these accounts will still need to put in pretty much all of the same info as the accounts that are taking payment.
I am trying to test something now to see if there is a way to remove some of those requirements and will get back to you.
It also may be worth noting that you may find it easier to pay out to your bank account and send funds from there rather than Stripe but I am still looking in to how to do this Stripe-wise
junior quest
I am trying to test something now to see if there is a way to remove some of tho...
I think the process would be faster if the organization has already registered before on Stripe, so they can use the same business information.
junior quest
It also may be worth noting that you may find it easier to pay out to your bank ...
I'm trying to do this natively with stripe, I don't want to go into process of managing this through the Bank, even if the organization needs to register on Stripe, then we can manage that with them.
long jetty
That makes sense, Stripe managing that is very valuable. Unfortunately they likely won't be able to re-use their previously entered info at the moment. They can have your Standard account for them under the same email as their existing one but they will need to re-enter any info that is relevant to getting money transfered to them
So the thing I was just testing is specifying the capabilities that you want for these accounts. When creating accounts for these charities, you can just create them with a transfers capability which means they will have less requirements. The process is still very similar to the other accounts signing up but it will be just a bit simpler. https://stripe.com/docs/connect/account-capabilities#creating
junior quest
So the thing I was just testing is specifying the capabilities that you want for...
But defining capabilities meaning using custom or express account, right?
I don't think defining capabilities is possible for standard account
Can I make express account for organizations only, and add them normally to the payment intent with other standard account?
long jetty
You can but mixing types of connect can be more trouble than it is worth.
I was able to define capabilities when creating standard accounts in my own testing. That section in your screenshot is more about requesting and unrequesting new capabilities after the account. That is possible with Express+Custom because you own those accounts, but with Standard, your platform doesn't really have much control after the account creation