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exotic pewterBOT Oct 14, 2022, 11:48 AM

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fast tiger Oct 14, 2022, 11:48 AM

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👋 happy to help

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what do you mean by EIN?

kindred vapor Oct 14, 2022, 11:52 AM

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Employer Identification Number.
Account creation flow asks for it. This thing

fast tiger Oct 14, 2022, 11:56 AM

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we don't provide access to PII info using the API

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I'm not sure if these are shared in the dashboard either

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in all cases, feel free to write to https://support.stripe.com/?contact=true and ask for more details about PII and how to handle that

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kindred vapor Oct 14, 2022, 12:07 PM

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I see. Ok, a slightly different question, we were thinking of asking for EIN ourselves, before forwarding the client to stripe for account creation. Is there a way to pass that collected EIN to stripe, so that the person won't need to enter it the second time?

fast tiger Oct 14, 2022, 12:11 PM

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just fmi why do you need to have this info?

kindred vapor Oct 14, 2022, 12:15 PM

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A good question, I'm now wondering the same, so going to go ask management whether we indeed so need it. It had something to do with us seeing people creating fraudulent accounts.

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Ok, we need EIN for our reporting anyway, so the question just boils down to whether we can pass it over to stripe to save the user some typing.

fast tiger Oct 14, 2022, 12:21 PM

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kindred vapor A good question, I'm now wondering the same, so going to go ask management wheth...

you need to carefully think about this since handling PII needs to be legally justified. As far as fraudulent account goes Stripe would cover that for you

fast tiger Oct 14, 2022, 12:21 PM

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kindred vapor Ok, we need EIN for our reporting anyway, so the question just boils down to whe...

I'm not sure that EIN should be present in reporting. this is sensitive data

kindred vapor Oct 14, 2022, 12:26 PM

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Yes, that is fully understood.
Though the question of passing it over to stripe on connected account creation still stands.

fast tiger Oct 14, 2022, 12:27 PM

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is this for individual accounts?

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I mean is the business_type individual?

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/accounts/create#create_account-individual-id_number

Stripe API reference – Create an account – curl

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kindred vapor Oct 14, 2022, 12:30 PM

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Nno, for companies. "company"

fast tiger Oct 14, 2022, 12:31 PM

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in the case of the company wouldn't this info be CIN instead of EIN?

kindred vapor Oct 14, 2022, 12:39 PM

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I'm not 100% sure. Stripe sign up flow asks for EIN.

fast tiger Oct 14, 2022, 12:40 PM

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Maybe it's related to this https://stripe.com/docs/api/persons

Stripe API reference – Persons – curl

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in that case this info doesn't get passed when creating the Account object itself

kindred vapor Oct 14, 2022, 12:45 PM

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Maybe. We're using this flow
https://stripe.com/docs/connect/oauth-reference
to onboard new connected accounts.
Is there any other, where EIN can be passed in?

Connect OAuth reference

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fast tiger Oct 14, 2022, 12:47 PM

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I don't think so

kindred vapor Oct 14, 2022, 1:31 PM

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Ok, thanks for the help!

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