#doug_webhooks
astral elkBOT
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wooden cedar
Hi 👋
In order to know for certain I would recommend going through this scenario in Test and carefully reviewing the webhook events that are emitted.
left glacier
I guess that really is the next step... was hoping to validate my approach before investing significantly more time building out test scenarios.
wooden cedar
Running through the whole process in Test mode is really the best option here. I don't think a new transfer is created automatically when a transfer is reversed but if you are building application logic based on the answers to these questions I would recommend plenty of testing before implementing anything in production
left glacier
Agreed. Thanks for the feedback... I will make some assumptions about the behavior and then proceed with testing to validate those assumptions. I am also assuming no new transfer is created with a reversal... that the reversla is only recorded in the context of the original transfer... which means my internal ledger wont have a unique id the the reversal activity. I can work with that... but would rather have a unique id for the reversal transaction
wooden cedar
A Transfer Reversal is it's own distinct object in Stripe: https://docs.stripe.com/api/transfer_reversals/object
It will have a unique ID associated with it
left glacier
Ah... that is very helpful!
wooden cedar
For further reference you can also retrieve the associated Balance Transaction for both the Transfer and the Transfer Reversal. This will provide you with more details on the movement of funds into and out of the Connected Accounts Stripe balance
Both objects have a balance_transaction property https://docs.stripe.com/api/transfers/object#transfer_object-balance_transaction
You can use the ID stored there to look up each Balance Transaction https://docs.stripe.com/api/balance_transactions if you need more details
Each BT will also have unique IDs
left glacier
Interesting... I wonder if my internal ledger more accurately reflects the balance transactions vs the transfer objects. I will dig into that side of things.
wooden cedar
Here is a bit more information that we have on what Balance Transactions represent: https://docs.stripe.com/reports/balance-transaction-types
We don't thoroughly document those Objects but they can be quite useful for keep track of money movement.
left glacier
Awesome.... I appreciate your help! I have some reading to do, but it looks like I may have a path forward, at least until the next step :). WIth the transfer.reversed webhook I get a trasfer object which may have a list of reversals... which one is the reversal that triggered this webhook event?
wooden cedar
We return all our lists in reverse chronological order so the first one in the list is the most recent. So if you have multiple partial reversals on a single Transfer, the first item in the reversals list will be the most recent one that triggered the webhook.
left glacier
Excellent! Thx again for your help!