aosbornee | Stripe Developers | Page 1

peak leafBOT Jan 19, 2024, 9:10 AM

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unique lava Jan 19, 2024, 9:10 AM

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Yep: https://stripe.com/docs/expand/use-cases#charges-in-payout

Use cases for expanding responses

Learn how the expand attribute helps you perform common tasks.

vital lintel Jan 19, 2024, 9:16 AM

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ah nice, thank you brother!

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and for anycase that my user has manual payouts, which part of it will fail?

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So I can handle gracefully

unique lava Jan 19, 2024, 9:17 AM

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If you're using manual payouts then the Payout just won't have any associated Balance Transactions

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You'd need to implement a manual reconciliation for those

vital lintel Jan 19, 2024, 9:18 AM

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amazing, also does stripe send the payout ID to the bank? or anything I can use to query

unique lava Jan 19, 2024, 9:22 AM

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I don't believe so but there's normally internal references that we send that aren't available via the API

Not sure how that would help you reconcile payments in a payout though

vital lintel Jan 19, 2024, 9:22 AM

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I see

unique lava Jan 19, 2024, 9:24 AM

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Depending on how you're using manual payouts, you'd use API parameters to flag specific transactions that are included in a payout after you've created the po_xxx

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So say you do a manual payout every day, you'd sum up all payments done in that timeframe and create the payout for $X

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Then after the payout is created you'd flag all those payments are processed under po_xxx via metadata or something

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Definitely a lot more overhead for manual payouts which is why we generally discourage them

vital lintel Jan 19, 2024, 9:26 AM

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Gotchuu, so that's the thing, I'm building an application for my end users, I don't have control on how they choose to payout and what metadata etc they choose to put in there

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Our tool is simply a financial tracking dashboard, I just wanted to connect to stripe to get better insights

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Do you reckon my best case would be to take the date of a user's bank transaction and look for a stripe payout that has a status of paid and has the closest arrival_date ?

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It doesn't need to be 100% accurate because we "suggest" it to the user on the frontend

E.g. we think this "STRIPE" transaction on the 19/01/24 relates to "Client A" & "Client B" (which we took from the names on the associated charges)

I'm just trying to make the app more seamless

unique lava Jan 19, 2024, 9:31 AM

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What is a transaction in this instance? A payment from one of your customers to a Stripe merchant? Or a payout?

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I'm confused

vital lintel Jan 19, 2024, 9:32 AM

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A transaction is a bank transaction, so what the end users sees on their actual bank statement (Amex Bank) e.g.

So it would relate to our end user receiving a payout from stripe

unique lava Jan 19, 2024, 9:37 AM

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I mean there's no way to definitively know that was a payout from us as the descriptor won't always be 'STRIPE': https://stripe.com/docs/connect/payout-statement-descriptors

Payout statement descriptors

Understand and manage how Stripe payouts look on a connected account's bank statements.

vital lintel Jan 19, 2024, 9:38 AM

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eeeeh I see, I thought automatic payouts always had a payout structure along those lines, or even "stripe-{some-type-of-number}

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So I was going to more so do a string contains lookup of some sort

#aosbornee