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rain dome Aug 17, 2022, 5:25 PM

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Hi there

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First, I'd recommend editing the above and removing your secret key

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Even though it is a test key this is a public server and it can allow folks access to your account

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I'd also recommend rolling that key

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In order to make requests on your Connected Accounts you want to pass the Stripe-Account header. Take a look at: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/authentication

olive hollow Aug 17, 2022, 5:27 PM

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thank you @rain dome but can i make an invoice between two connect accounts? is that possible in stripe? or do i ahve to create a customer from one of the accounts everytime i wanna make an inovice?

graceful light Aug 17, 2022, 5:27 PM

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Hi there 👋 taking over for @rain dome

Give me a couple minutes to get caught up.

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You question doesn't make a lot of sense. You can make transfers to/from connected accounts from the platform's balance and that has nothing to do with customers.

olive hollow Aug 17, 2022, 5:30 PM

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the thing is that i'm unsure if making invoices is the correct way, i'm aware of the trasnfers but in my job i was asked to create invoices

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so when i create invoices using the stripe API it asks me for a customer id, when in my scenarios or billing usecases, a customer is also a stripe connect account

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in my marketplace both a buyer and a seller will create a standard connect account which is what i'm asking, how to create an invoice between the two

graceful light Aug 17, 2022, 5:37 PM

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You cant

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Invoices are not intended to transfer balances between accounts. You can create Invoices for customers, but you cannot create Invoices for Connect accounts

olive hollow Aug 17, 2022, 5:38 PM

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got it thanks for the clarification, so a more appropiate scenario would be to either create a customer everytime i make an invoice or just use stripe transfers and handle the invoice entity in my end?

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would a payment link be more appropiate to accept payments between accounts?

graceful light Aug 17, 2022, 5:44 PM

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All payments on Stripe are intended for end-customers and business entities. We don't have any products other than Transfers for moving money between Connected accounts. You would have to create these transfers and handle the invoicing on your end if that's the intended flow.

olive hollow Aug 17, 2022, 5:45 PM

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got it, thanks for the clarification, then i probably dont need to set standard accounts for buyers and handle them as customers right? at the end they arent gonna be receiving payments only making them and for that scenario invoices will work

graceful light Aug 17, 2022, 5:51 PM

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Without knowing exactly who the entities are and all the nuances of how you want them to interact with your company, I can't say "don't use Connect", but based on what you've told me so far I don't see any reason to use Connect as of now.

olive hollow Aug 17, 2022, 6:01 PM

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oh so basically its a platform that helps people buy and sell plastics, people buying will create a purchase order, people selling will create a specification, once we have a match and a proposal between a person that is buying and a person that is selling we make a contract and make an invoice

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during the proposal phase we do make a quote, and currently this is all working through the stripe UI without our platform and its working great

graceful light Aug 17, 2022, 6:10 PM

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Ah, okay I see. I believe Invoices should suffice then

olive hollow Aug 17, 2022, 6:12 PM

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thanks a lot i truly learned a lot and now i'm half way there!

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