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sweet fiber
fallen latch
What is a 'customer' in this context? A Stripe merchant or a consumer?
fallen latch
Hmm, I don't really understand. I'm fairly certain we identify merchants on the card networks during payment
cunning prism
The docs aren't super clear about it: https://stripe.com/resources/more/merchant-id#how-merchant-id-numbers-work
Stripe users, for example, don’t see or deal with their merchant ID number directly.
This could mean that merchants have a unique identifier, but the docs give no hints how a merchant could obtain their merchant id and give it to us in order to whitelist
fallen latch
Correct, it's not something that we expose via the APIs
cunning prism
This is primarily interesting for small shops that come to stripe without a merchant id. They are advised to "fill their email into the merchant id field"
fallen latch
Equally not really sure what it is you're building exactly
cunning prism
I'm issuing credit cards that only work in a limited partner network. I have to whitelist these partners. Works fine with merchant ids. But small stripe merchants keep telling us that they don't have/know about their merchant id