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frigid glenBOT Nov 17, 2022, 6:01 PM

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fossil rock Nov 17, 2022, 6:02 PM

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Hello! Yep, that sounds like a viable approach, although using a Connect Webhook Endpoint to listen for payment-related Events is what I would recommend instead: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/webhooks

spice dragon Nov 17, 2022, 6:03 PM

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what event would we listen for? I didn't see anything that we could listen for that would send us an event every time a BalanceTransaction record is created.

fossil rock Nov 17, 2022, 6:04 PM

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That's true, we don't have an Event for that, so if you wanted to know about every Balance Transaction your approach is probably best.

spice dragon Nov 17, 2022, 6:04 PM

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ok. thank you.

spice dragon Nov 17, 2022, 6:25 PM

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The flaw in this background job approach is I don't see a way to retrieve the account balance at the time the BalanceTransaction record was created.

fossil rock Nov 17, 2022, 6:27 PM

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That's correct, there is no way to do that. What you can do is retrieve the balance at a given point in time, then calculate the balance at a previous or later point in time by adding the Balance Transactions to it which happened before or after.

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For example, let's say you get the balance on Jan 15 and it's $100. Then you get three Balance Transactions from Jan 1–14 which add $10, $20, and $30. You can subtract those values to get the balance on Jan 1st of $40.

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Or, if you want to go forward in time, you add later Balance Transactions to the balance.

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