#eckhartpark
violet creek
Would you manage the accounts that do receive the money? In other words, would you have clients that sign up to your app and recieve money for events?
modern wyvern
hmmm...its an app for stand up comedians. They would sign up for an account to my app. Then sign up for an account separately with Stripe. Then I would just create forms and listings in the app for fans to buy tickets. All of the logistics would be stripe API. I wouldn't do anything else, but they would have an account for my app and a separate Stripe account. Like this: https://activitymessenger.com/help/how_to_payment_form
they integrate with Stripe
you can see at 1:38 of the video on that page
violet creek
So what would your app actually be doing with Stripe? Like, if they create their account themselves, and you don't take any money, I don't see how your app would need to interact with Stripe at all
modern wyvern
Because comedians and fans get points on my app for interacting with the comedy scene and we've created a system that makes it more fun to go see stand up comedy and discover new comedians. Ideally my app is bringing eyeballs to events because it is so niche. By creating the event on my app's forms it makes it easier to get their event seen.
and selling tickets on my app using my forms would bring a lot of people into the app. Instead of the comedian selling them using eventbrite where eventbrite would charge higher fees and doesn't have the niche audience i have. My fees would be smaller because I don't have any and stripes fees are the only ones charged
violet creek
Right, but the comedians would be creating their own stripe accounts and handling their own payments, so your app wouldn't actually do anything with Stripe specifically right? Or am I missing something?
modern wyvern
Right, but the comedians would be creating their own stripe accounts and handlin...
Well I guess I see fans sending in their credit card information and name and address type information to Stripe as interacting with your API. Maybe you don't consider that interacting with the API? A fan will go on my app, they will see comedian X has a show tonight. so they will click on a link in my app to the event page, they will click purchase and say they want 2 tickets. This will all be done on my app...ideally they aren't seeing anything Stripe related. Isn't my app interacting with Stripe in this example? Or maybe I'm just misdefining the interaction
violet creek
I think the explanation you initially gave was just extra confusing, because it didn't sound like your customers ever input card info into your app.
You should look at Stripe Standard Connect for this use-case. It allows you create payment forms for your clients (comedians) without ever needing money to pass through you. It goes straight to the clients: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/standard-accounts
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