mdubya

[shy mirage]

creating a saas platform that allows the platforms users to have their own customers and charge their customers. but also allowing the platforms users to pay their staff via 'transfers'

transfers are only able to made to connect accounts. but instead of the transfer being made from my account, its made from the employers account

[spiral musk]

Hi there, is the hierarchy like below?
-platform
--> standard account (platform users)
---> express/custom account (staff)

[shy mirage]

yessir

[spiral musk]

and the transfer is from platform user to staff (level 2 -> level 3)?

[shy mirage]

yessir

also. not sure where you are but thanks for fielding this question at 2am. ha

[spiral musk]

No problem! happy to help.

Yes this use case is totally possible.

[shy mirage]

i dont suppose there is a easy way of executing this maneuver ?

does the 'staff' account have to be onboarded as a connect account to the 'platform_user'?

[shy mirage]

im trying to work thru it myself. i assume the 'transfer' capability needs to be activated on the (lvl2) account. i currently have those set as standard accounts and when i try to enable 'transfers' i get the response "You cannot update capabilities for Standard connected accounts."

@spiral musk still with me?

[spiral musk]

Thanks for waiting, discord is busy at this moment.

[shy mirage]

no worries.

[spiral musk]

Yes the staff account need to be the connected account of the platform_user.

[shy mirage]

would i need api_keys of the platform_user in order for the platform to execute the transfer?

[spiral musk]

Yes you need. The transfer request will be initiated from the platform_user

[shy mirage]

would i need the platform_user to manually enter those or can i retrieve them via the api?

[spiral musk]

There's no API to retrieve an API secret, you need to store the API secret securely in your server.

[shy mirage]

hmm. ok. makes sense. hoping i could avoid this layer via some sort of inheritance