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peak moon
hi! should be possible yes. Overall what is the use case, what is the purpose of adding those cards?
minor gale
i was talking to jack before, let me explain
we have a mobile app that uses stripe for ev charging payments. we use stripe connect, as customers pay, and the owners of charge point also get paid whilst we take a transaction fee for the platform use
the users link their credit card on the app, and the payment intent is processed against these cards
we wanted to implement a wallet function using credits, where users are able to purchase our credits like with $100, to buy like a credit. Then use from the credit instead of a linked card
original thought was to add this $100 as a customer credit and use it for payments if the balance was positive
but i was told that we cannot use payment intent with credit and only can do invoice
which means this does not work in our case
We have another situation, where we ran a promotion and 10 people won some credits that they can use in our platform. we thought of buying some prepaid visa cards, and then being able to add to their connected accounts ourselves, so they can use this credit until the balance is available
now that is the long context to this question, sorry for that
you still here @peak moon
peak moon
yes.
sorry I'm not really following. Is there a specific API question here?
you can use https://stripe.com/docs/connect/authentication to make any API call on a connected account(like creating a Customer or creating a PaymentMethod or confirming an Intent or so on)
minor gale
if i have a credit card, can i add it to a customer account ?
peak moon
what is a "customer account"? Is that a Stripe Customer object cus_xxx , or a connected account acct_xxx ?
minor gale
if we have a linked connect customer, can i add a prepaid credit card that i have to their account
peak moon
I need more technical conext on what exactly a " linked connect customer" is and what objects in the Stripe API that corresponds to.
minor gale
stripe offer a product called stripe standard connect
which enables a 3 way payment processing for a marketplace. we are that marketplace, and the end user customer who buy product is the customer
peak moon
cool so it's just Direct Charges then right?
https://stripe.com/docs/connect/direct-charges
You have a platform, a connected account acct_xxx, and a customer cus_xxx object that is created on the connected account and that is where the PaymentMethod/PaymentIntents are created.
As mentioned above and in that doc, you can use https://stripe.com/docs/connect/authentication in those flows to create/update any object in the connected account.
minor gale
but my question is, if i can add a credit card to that customer, myself
in the ui, i am able to see an option to add payment method, where i can add another card for that customer from my stripe ui
so my question is - can i add a prepaid visa card here, and set it to default.
peak moon
not sure, this is a chat for developers and API questions, and the developer answer is you use the Stripe-Account header on an API request, such as on a page that uses a SetupIntent to accept and save a card to a Customer, happy to elaborate on technical details of that