#Ryan Drewniak
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HI 👋
That depends on the specifics of the account. Funds generally have a pending period which can be seen in the Stripe balance
Is the pending period attached to the individual payments/charges, or the transfers?
I'm essentially trying to collect payments via my app platform, then at a later date (once the funds from those payments are no longer eligible for refunds), they get paid out to the businesses (via their respective connected accounts).
I need to make the charges, attributing them to the connected accounts, but keep the funds in the platform until they are eligible to be paid out.
That sounds more like a Separate Charge & Transfers funds flow to me. Have you looked into using that approach?
https://stripe.com/docs/connect/charges-transfers
I was looking into that. Just to make sure I'm looking at this correctly:
With this approach, I would process my charges, calculating any necessary "platform service fees", then immediately afterwards (in a separate request) I would be creating a transfer to associate that charge (sans the service fees) to the connected account.
THEN once those funds are eligible to be withdrawn by the business, the platform processes a payout to the connected account, releasing the specified amount of funds to the bank account attached to that connected account.
Does this sound correct?
You could transfer immediately afterwards or delay the transfer until the good/service is rendered.
But yes you would create a payout to transfer funds from the Stripe Account to the merchant's bank account
@north violet Thank you so much for talking through the business logic for this all with me! I really appreciate it!