#szary.diabel+mj9
limpid owl
devout lake
hi! sure, you can prefill some of the information for Express accounts. Adding the representative is just creating a Person with relationship[representative] set to true.
https://stripe.com/docs/connect/express-accounts#create-account
https://stripe.com/docs/api/persons/create?lang=node#create_person-relationship-representative
did you run into a specific problem when trying this?
tawny nest
So we do not have to add an actual personal data at this step, right? If this is true, it's great. That would mean that NGOs will be able to onboard themselves with their legal representation when needed
devout lake
not sure I follow. If you don't know the information you don't have to do this at all. You just create the account and redirect to the AccountLink and it collects everything needed
you'd only really be pre-filling by creating a Person directly if you already have the information collected yourself and want to avoid the user having to enter it again in the Stripe hosted onboarding from the AccountLink, for example.
tawny nest
got it, but this person has to provide their sensitive data like SSN, we can't have that. All we need is to start collecting payments to stripe, not to make payouts at this step
devout lake
cool, then you just use Express as per https://stripe.com/docs/connect/express-accounts, you create the account, redirect to the AccountLink onboarding and it would collect everything needed to activate the account.
tawny nest
but can we start collecting donation before onboarding is finished?
devout lake
what does "collecting donations" mean in terms of API calls? But generally no. When you create the account, it has statuses on it like charges_enabled and payouts_enabled and the status of the transfer capability(for being able to recieve funds from your platform), I believe those all start off as false. As information is added (i.e. the user goes through the onboarding), they become active.