burt-connect-checkout

[open sable]

@midnight lance yes it works totally fine

[midnight lance]

Are connected accounts the best way to be able to pay out customer locations? If we have a platform (think Uber Eats) that is used by restaurants, with payment going through us then paying out restaurants?

If so - what is the recommended best first steps for creating a first connected account for a "first restaurant"?

[open sable]

we have detailed end to end guides for this: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/collect-then-transfer-guide

[midnight lance]

Nice! Thanks - so much documentation I was getting drowned in rabbit holes

[open sable]

yeah there's a lot of docs 🙂

[midnight lance]

So this is a good place to start for the functionality described?

And connected accounts make sense?

[open sable]

yep

that doc is exactly what you want

[midnight lance]

niceee

appreciate the help

[open sable]

it shows you how to accept a payment and transfer some of the funds to a connected account which would be a restaurant in that case

[midnight lance]

Sweet

One more question

Do you have any recommendation on tips in this scenario?

Lets say the uber eats driver gets tipped - separate from restaurant payout. Any documentation that could help with that or implementation tips? Thanks!

[open sable]

not something we support today so you'd need to do a separate payment for the tip or charge more upfront and then capture based on the selected tip

I'd recommend chatting with our support team about this instead: https://support.stripe.com/contact

[midnight lance]

hmmm so it needs to be implemented internally

gotcha

And i assume that in this scenario the driver would need their own connect account if there were two separate transcations

[open sable]

yes

you can charge $100, transfer $90 to the restaurant and $5 to the drive and keep $5 for yourself though

see https://stripe.com/docs/connect/charges-transfers

[midnight lance]

is it possible for the "yourself" part

application_fee_amount, can this be a percentage? The documentation has it as a set fee

Second: this driver/restaurant transfer functionality probably doesn't work with stripe hosted checkout does it?

stupid question

[open sable]

no it's not a percentage, but you control the code so you can make the math yourself

[midnight lance]

stack overflow got me for the percentage LOL

yeah makes sense

[open sable]

sorry that's a lot of intro questions, which is fine, but you likely really want to just start by playing with it as the developer first

Checkout is for accepting a payment. You get a customer to pay $100, then you transfer the right amount(s) to the right connected account(s)