hritik

[lofty creek]

Hi 👋 what are you trying to do? Are you trying to create a Connected Account in livemode?

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I want to add a merchant account to distribute payouts but while adding merchant account i am getting this error

[lofty creek]

That makes it sound like you're trying to create a Connected Account in livemode, which you can't do if you haven't signed up for Connect. Did you already build a Connect integration in testmode?

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i am not sure that I have created connect account on testmode. how i can check that

[lofty creek]

Well, what is it that you are doing? Are you running code you've written, clicking buttons in the Stripe dashboard, or possibly something else?

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i am running this with code

i am a developer

[lofty creek]

Gotcha, so what code are you running?

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stripe_obj.accounts.create(accountObj)

i am using this method

and passing some required data in it as object

[lofty creek]

The secret key that you use to initialize stripe when you make that request, does it start with sk_live_ or sk_test_?

If it's a test key, one that starts with the latter prefix, then the missing step may be that you need to register your platform. I don't recall offhand if that has to be completed to test Connect in testmode.
The link to that registration can be found here:
https://stripe.com/docs/connect/collect-then-transfer-guide?platform=web#prerequisites

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it is starting with sk_live