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strange kettleBOT Jul 21, 2023, 2:06 PM

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blissful sentinel Jul 21, 2023, 2:08 PM

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Hi 👋 if they are distinct accounts currently, then no.

Depending on the rest of your integration, primarily whether these accounts are already connected to a Platform, then you may be able to use Stripe Connect to tie them together. In that case you could make all requests from your Platform Account, and use the stripe-account header to control which account the request is executed on.
https://stripe.com/docs/api/connected_accounts

To do so you would need to create another account to serve as the Platform account, then use this approach to link each of the existing accounts to that platform:
https://stripe.com/docs/connect/oauth-standard-accounts

daring citrus Jul 21, 2023, 2:10 PM

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would it be possible to change one of this existing account to be the platform account?

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is there a way to see if one of them is the platform account?

I did not create them myself so I am trying to work my way to understand the structure

blissful sentinel Jul 21, 2023, 2:13 PM

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Hm, yeah, I believe that is possible. You may want to spin up some other test accounts first and play with the linking there to get a feel for it before doing it with your real accounts.

strange kettleBOT Jul 21, 2023, 2:17 PM

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daring citrus Jul 21, 2023, 2:19 PM

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sorry do you know the answer for the above question

is there a way to see if one of them is the platform account?

Thank you

blissful sentinel Jul 21, 2023, 2:20 PM

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Usually that is something that is already known, let me think about whether there is a good place to look to make that determination.

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Since you would need to use the OAuth flow to connect existing accounts, the Platform account will have the OAuth toggle near the bottom of this page turned on (there are different settings for test and live mode, so you may need to switch between the two to confirm)
https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/settings/connect

That isn't a definitive answer though, as a Connected Account can also be their own Platform (though the top level Platform would not be able to interact with a Connected Account's Connected Accounts if they exist).

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daring citrus Jul 21, 2023, 2:24 PM

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is the OAuth for Standard account toggle?

kindred elm Jul 21, 2023, 2:25 PM

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daring citrus is the OAuth for Standard account toggle?

toby had to step out. Not sure I understand the question

daring citrus Jul 21, 2023, 2:27 PM

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inside the https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/settings/connect page I see 2 toggle related to the Oauth

OAuth for Express accounts
OAuth for Standard accounts

kindred elm Jul 21, 2023, 2:27 PM

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Yep

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Depends whether you have express or standard accounts

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Based on the above sounds like you have standard

daring citrus Jul 21, 2023, 2:28 PM

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at the moment they are both switched off..

so if I want to change the account to become a platform account I need to set that toggle to on?

kindred elm Jul 21, 2023, 2:30 PM

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It's not that simple if you need to connect existing accounts to one of your accounts. See this stackoverflow response which has a good explanation of how to connect existing accounts using oauth: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63903361/17627350

Stack Overflow

How to connect existing Stripe accounts to my platform account?

I have created a platform account and I want to connect my other stripe accounts that I own to the platform account as connected accounts.

daring citrus Jul 21, 2023, 2:31 PM

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ok thank you!

let me look into that SO thread to gather more info

thanks again

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