#ChibiDragoon
terse galleon
delicate hazel
Hello 👋
Unfortunately, there's no way to know the exact fee amount prior to processing the payment as it depends on ton of different things (like if FX is involved, the network used etc)
You can calculate an estimated fee and create a PaymentIntent for that amount instead and refund any extra amount later on
rich veldt
the thing is that I am making a connect direct payment and if the connected want to receive 10k in the example right now, I added the 10% that my application fee wants and added it to the amount. Doing so increases the stripe processing fee. If i try to put the 3.5% on the amount as extra to cover the fee, the fee will increase because of that. There is no way to deal with that is what you are saying
all i want to to have the Net as close to the amount the stripe connected account wanted as possible
delicate hazel
Right, that is all expected unfortunately. That's just how the direct charge flow works. There's no workarounds.
delicate hazel
The alternative would be if you were doing destination charges, in that case you control how much you transfer to the connected account.
So you could deduct Stripe fees from the transfer amount but it alters the whole flow of funds for your app
rich veldt
i need to be a standard account and last time when I asked about way to create payments, I was advised to use direct charge
delicate hazel
That's correct, standard accounts need to use direct charges.
rich veldt
also with stripe connect, who dictate the way a receipt looks and what the summary is? is it the connected account?
delicate hazel
It depends on who the merchant of record is. With direct charges, its the connected account yes
rich veldt
ok so if the connected account does nothing, it would be by default and that's it
delicate hazel
yup
We have a doc here
https://stripe.com/docs/receipts#receipts-for-stripe-connect
rich veldt
oh also is it mandatory for a connected account to have url for a website? Since most of our client will be individuals that don't really have websites, should they just enter ours or is there a way to bypass it? (as a standard account of course)
delicate hazel
I don't think you can bypass this unfortunately, I'd recommend talking to our support team about that.
They would know if there's a workaround there
https://support.stripe.com/?contact=true
rich veldt
ok thank you I will ask them
delicate hazel
NP! 🙂 Good luck