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empty pikeBOT Jul 18, 2023, 9:32 PM

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merry bolt Jul 18, 2023, 9:33 PM

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I saw the ability to add a new account, but it looks like I have to fill our a whole new business profile for that and it might not be the right thing.

upbeat kindle Jul 18, 2023, 9:33 PM

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HI 👋

The most straight forward way to do this would be to add logic to your new app that adds an identifier to the metadata for Charges/PaymentIntents.

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/metadata

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We generally recommend a new Account for new projects like Apps or Websites where you need to differentiate the whole business

merry bolt Jul 18, 2023, 9:36 PM

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We are a hosting company that has different clients ... we are accepting charges on behalf of our clients. We are onboarding a 2nd client now, would that be an appropriate use of the new account? Seperate website for a different client?

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or should we just add metadata to distinguish charges coming from Client App A vs Client App B

upbeat kindle Jul 18, 2023, 9:37 PM

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Are these clients going to have Stripe Accounts? That may be a Stripe Connect situation but Connect is a complicated integration

merry bolt Jul 18, 2023, 9:38 PM

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no, we will own the stripe account... the money will flow thru us.

upbeat kindle Jul 18, 2023, 9:38 PM

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You can use the metadata approach to be able to identify individual payments and where they are coming from

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But it's an approach that relies on you to know that values correspond to what apps/accounts

merry bolt Jul 18, 2023, 9:38 PM

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ok

upbeat kindle Jul 18, 2023, 9:39 PM

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Nothing in Stripe's pre-built reporting will take that into account

merry bolt Jul 18, 2023, 9:39 PM

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so the only way to get nice reporting is if it is a separate account?

upbeat kindle Jul 18, 2023, 9:40 PM

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Pretty much

merry bolt Jul 18, 2023, 9:40 PM

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ok... would that be a quick and easy thing if all the information is going to match our primary account?

upbeat kindle Jul 18, 2023, 9:41 PM

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Is this a separate stand-alone Stripe Account?

merry bolt Jul 18, 2023, 9:42 PM

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I don't know 🙂

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that's what I'm asking... it can be a sub-account off of our primary account if that is possible

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I just noticed in the top left of the stripe login I was able to add a new account.

upbeat kindle Jul 18, 2023, 9:43 PM

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Yes you as a use can have multiple indenpendent accounts

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But that would be the same manual drill as creating your first account

merry bolt Jul 18, 2023, 9:44 PM

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ok... is there a concept of sub-accounts in stripe?

upbeat kindle Jul 18, 2023, 9:44 PM

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That's Connect

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But it's a big topic because we cover a lot of use-cases so I'd start here: https://stripe.com/docs/connect

merry bolt Jul 18, 2023, 9:45 PM

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yeah... I think you're right... that's what I need to do.

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Is it difficult to get onboarded with connect

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?

upbeat kindle Jul 18, 2023, 9:45 PM

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I would start by reading the docs

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There's a lot in there and if you try to skim it you may miss something very important to how your business model works

merry bolt Jul 18, 2023, 9:46 PM

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what's the quickest you've ever provissioned connect and been able to get charges processing?

upbeat kindle Jul 18, 2023, 9:46 PM

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I haven't spun up a live account

merry bolt Jul 18, 2023, 9:47 PM

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blind leading the blind

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🙂

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ok... thanks for your help

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