#aasdfasa-connect-bnpl
restive tangle
aasdfasa-connect-bnpl
@livid stratus no we don't have such a file or API but what you can do is enable their Capability and then see if it works and/or if it gets disabled mostly. See https://stripe.com/docs/connect/payment-methods
livid stratus
Considering our platform is live, would changing this capability affect anything related to their current account? Most are processing payments already, with our custom UI. The main concern would BNPL popping up in production before we are ready to handle it.
Also, is there a webhook that will be received if the BNPL availability on an account changes? We are also building out a custom UI for BNPL, so we need to determine dynamically which BNPL providers are available for each account, when their shop pages get rendered.
restive tangle
you can use this to see what would happen I think
Sorry I only grasp 50% of what you are trying to do
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livid stratus
I'm trying to determine at runtime (when a person uses the account's shop page) if the account can do BNPL with any of the 3 providers that we are using.
I know the Payment Element does this UI for us, but we need to have our custom UI and show BNPL availability before items are added to the cart, as well as when in the cart.
open brook
like what koopajah mentioned, you should be able to retrieve the capabilities of the connected account to determine if they can do BNPL - but maybe test it out to verify that it works too
livid stratus
OK. Would the API response time be a concern though? I could do it with AJAX I suppose, so the page rendering does not wait for the Stripe API.
open brook
no matter what you do, you're going to need to make a request to find out whether the account supports BNPL (Whether you're making a request to Stripe or to your own DB), so you're going to need to manage your page appropriately anyway
livid stratus
True, but we can ensure our DB queries are faster than a 3rd party API, no offense 😅 Which is why I was originally asking if the MCC code could be used, as we can keep as a simple query in that case.
open brook
no worries, i personally wouldn't use the MCC code, what if you forgot to request for the capability, or for some other reason, the capability was disabled?
Ideally maybe you can listen for the account.updated event and save the account object to your own DB to query for?
livid stratus
That begs the question... Would the disabling of a capability come from the Stripe team?
open brook
sometimes yes
livid stratus
Bringing this thread back to life... is there an API to get the details of a BNPL provider's payment options? I know the Payment Element is the recommended method, but does Stripe have an API that we can call directly?
open brook
this Element probably? https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-method-messaging
not really an API as per what you're looking for, but a component that will show what options are available
livid stratus
Pretty much, but we have our own UI requirements so I'm not sure if I can wrangle the appearance API to be exact in what we need. I was hoping for a JSON response of this data.
open brook
hmmm, gimme a second to take a look
pretty certain we don't have such a feature at the moment. if you would like to see support for this feature, I'd suggest writing to https://support.stripe.com/contact/email to explain your use cases/feature request as that helps the product team capture demand for prioritisation
livid stratus
OK.. probably won't help to request this, as we are supposed to release next month.
I presume the iOS and Android SDKs have a similar element available?
open brook
unfortunately it doesn't have an equivalent element 😅
oh hey sorry, it looks like it does
this is for IOS : https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ios/blob/master/StripePaymentsUI/StripePaymentsUI/Source/UI Components/PaymentMethodMessagingView.swift
livid stratus
great! I'll check those now