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exotic fractal
Going to need some more information here. That completely depends on what your integration is
deft heath
i have it so that any new user who signs up for my site gets a regular stripe customer id. What I am planning to add is stripe connect where people can become affiliates for my site and they could do some marketing for me and then if they are able to get new customers to pay, I pay those affiliates.
exotic fractal
Yeah in that case, you'd need to store both
deft heath
oh wow. There is no way to lookup in the api an account id based on customer id?
exotic fractal
They're completely separate concepts
Customers on your platform account have nothing to do with connect accounts. There's no mapping/association between the two at all in stripe
Any relationship would need to be built out on your end
deft heath
i see. How about look up the connect account using metadata or an email?
deft heath
How?
deft heath
gotcha
I am wondering your opinion on what connect account type and charge type to use for something like this
exotic fractal
I can't advise really. That depends on what you're looking for. We provide this doc to help you decide though: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/accounts
deft heath
is there a way in test mode to switch back and forth?
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dusty elm
Hi 👋
I'm stepping in as @exotic fractal needs to go soon.
No, once you create an account of a certain type you cannot change it. But if you are working in Test mode you can try creating accounts of each type, testing out onboarding and charge creation with them, and decide which approach best fits your business model.
deft heath
meaning i cannot change from standard to express once i decide?
dusty elm
Well if you are creating Accounts in test mode it won't matter, will it? Since you would be creating new Accounts in Live mode and you specify the account type for each account you create
deft heath
True. So each account (affiliate) will need to be of a certain account type? My business is not a certain account type?
i could have user 1 as standard and user 2 as express to test them is what you are saying?
dusty elm
Yes
The Platform account is a Direct Stripe account, Connected Accounts can be Standard (Direct), Express, or Custom types.
I highly recommend reviewing the document my colleague provided to understand the implications of your choices though
deft heath
ok cool i am going to read through them so i could better understand
dusty elm
Great, I think that's a good idea
deft heath
Do you have a recommendation for charge type to use?
dusty elm
That depends on which account type you choose. We strongly recommend using Direct Charges with Standard Accounts and Destination Charges or Separate Charge & Transfers with Express and Custom account.
deft heath
Gotcha that is helpful thanks
dusty elm
Happy to shed what 💡 I can 🙂
deft heath
Btw, Snufkin is a great character 🙂
dusty elm
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