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covert osprey
The reason I need this is I'm doing a direct charge to one of the vendor connect accounts within our system. However, we need to deduct the platform fees after stripe fees, but we can't do that because we don't know the feees beforehand
Another option was to transfer it out after the transaction, but that fails because the funds need to be cleared into the vendor connected account before we can transfer it out
So we want to do platform fees calculated after stripe fees
inland venture
Hi there, you can get it from payment_intent->latest_charge->balance_transaction->fee_details
covert osprey
But it needs to have a successful payment right?
covert osprey
But I need to charge 10% after stripe fees at the time of the charge(platform fees) not before
inland venture
Sure, you can do that through application_fee
covert osprey
but I can't take out that specific amount because I don't know how much the stripe fees at the time of transaction. Is there a different way to go about this?
inland venture
Why do you need to know the stripe fee? the connected account is responsible for stripe fee for direct charges.
covert osprey
Our agreements with our vendor is that we take 10% after stripe fees
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harsh sedge
There's no easy way to go about this.
You can consider using the authorize and capture payment flow : https://stripe.com/docs/payments/place-a-hold-on-a-payment-method. You would :
Include capture_method=manual [0] when creating the PaymentIntent. After the payment is authorized, you can inspect the PaymentMethod to know the card country after the payment is authorized : https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_methods/object#payment_method_object-card-country and determine if it's a domestic or international card transaction (compare to the connected account country pricing), Then call the Capture API and change/set the application fee amount : https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_intents/capture#capture_payment_intent-application_fee_amount
Alternatively, you can use the Deferred Intent flow which allows you to create a create a PaymentMethod to send to your server for additional validation or business logic prior to confirmation : https://stripe.com/docs/payments/build-a-two-step-confirmation
ultimately, you're going to need to save the Stripe fee for each country somewhere in your own local server to be able to make those calculations
covert osprey
Does stripe have an API I can use to get teh fees beforehand?
harsh sedge
no, we don't unfortunately
covert osprey
Usually we create the paymentIntent in the back-end and allow our front-end to attach the payment method there and confirm the payment
Is there nothing similar to the source_transaction parameter for connected accounts to allow us to transfer out funds after the charge has been made?
harsh sedge
Right now you're creating Direct Charges, the payment itself is created on the connected account. Those options i previously listed are the only viable ones for Direct Charges.
I think an alternative will be to consider Separate Charges and Transfers, you'll create a PaymentIntent with on_behalf_of (the payment would be on your platform account), then create a Transfer to the connected account
covert osprey
Oh so if go the the transfer route, that means that I wil have to wait for the funds to be cleared?
harsh sedge
what do you mean by wait for the funds to be cleared?