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- some1ataplace, 5 days ago, 12 messages
slow light
Hi, can you elaborate on what are the streams here?
inner garnet
affiliate marketing and for creating content from the same user
new customer signs up and pays, affiliate marketer rewarded.
user writes a blog post and they get rewarded based on page views
slow light
Okie, so who is the Platform and who is the Express connected account?
inner garnet
my website both times
is the platform. Express connected account is the user who has a login on my site
slow light
And each stream you mentioned is a Customer?
inner garnet
they could be, yes. They can also buy stuff on my site too. But they could also generate content and share affiliate links and get commissions via stripe connect.
slow light
So they will have both Customer and a Connected Account?
slow light
Okie going to the question. What do you mean by separate from different streams? Each stream will generate different transactions and you will know by the Customer Ids if I understand correctly
inner garnet
just to separate out the streams for accounting purposes - affiliate versus content creator. Same connect account id.
this person got paid x amount for affiliate and y amount for content creation
And I am wondering if they sign up for an express account once or twice for the different streams, it would be awkward. Or if they sign up once and they automatically get the other stream if they start taking the action - content creator or share affiliate link
slow light
It makes more sense to me if they just have 1 express account. Each time to receive revenue would be a different transaction
inner garnet
yea plus i would rather not code another sign up process for main logins to my site
wondering though how to identify the streams though for accounting?
The transaction, but how?
slow light
Have you tried building it in Test mode? Which API are you using exactly?
inner garnet
not sure what you mean by which api
i have it built for affiliates and it is working but now i am wondering about this other stream to add
inner garnet
just so you know, might be leaving soon
slow light
Yeah feel free to come back later. I meant how do you implement the payment? ie. PaymentIntent with PaymentElement, or Checkout?
slow light
Yes so for each "stream" as you mentioned, there could be multiple Checkout Sessions
You can tag each of your Checkout Session to 1 stream via metadata, for example you change Session 1, Session 2 with "stream" = "affliate", Session 3 with "stream" = "content creator"
inner garnet
ok yea i was going to use metadata as a fall back in case there was nothing else