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lilac rain
Not clear what you mean by that. Can you explain more about what you are doing with custom connect and monthly billing?
void cloud
We charge a fee of payments being made on our webapp, but we also plan on charging a monthly fee on top of that. Can the same access tokens for the Stripe API be used for both? And can the Stripe ID of the connected customers be used for the monthly billing as well? Naturally they will need to add their credit card for billing.
By monthly fee I mean a recurring subscription
lilac rain
That helped but I think I am still a bit unclear. Can you give a specific example of what you want these charges to look like?
Like a single customer makes individual payments to you and then also has a subscription of $10 a month or something?
And what do you mean by "And can the Stripe ID of the connected customers be used for the monthly billing as well?" are you just talking about using Customer objects or are you talking about something where you are splitting funds with another Stripe account?
https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/object
void cloud
I'll do my best to clarify.
We are, through Stripe Connect (custom), facilitating a payment for our customers to their customers, and charging a fee of that to cover the expenses for Stripe. We are essentially the middleman for a transaction, and Stripe Connect enables that. On top of this, we wish to also have our customers pay a monthly subscription amount, to use our services. We store the ID of the customer object now, that we use to perform all the Stripe Connect actions.
Is it possible to use the API tokens we use now for both Connect and Billing, and can we reuse the ID of the customer object for the Billing aspect as well?
lilac rain
Gotcha, thank you for that explanation.
Yes you can use the exact same customer IDs for one-off payments and recurring ones with our subscriptions
You will likely also find this link useful, it shows how to set up destination charges with our Subscriptions https://stripe.com/docs/connect/subscriptions#use-destination-charges-to-create-a-subscription
