hinky_best-practices

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[obtuse schooner]

Platform, connected account and customer (person who pays) has their own balances.

When you transfer the fund from platform to connected account, the balance will go to connected account balance.

I'm not too sure how Customer Balance Transaction comes into place here

[frank cloud]

"Platform, connected account and customer (person who pays) has their own balances"

Thank you for quick reply.

Reading above statement, to me sounds like that would be more specific between the customer of the stripe connect account, and customer balance only associtaed with that stripe connect account.

The customer will be of the platform, their balance can be used across multiple different services (each service will have their own stripe connect account). .

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"When you transfer the fund from platform to connected account, the balance will go to connected account balance. ",

sorry stupid question from me here, can you point me to docs to transfer/pay from my platform stripe balance into a stripe connect balance?

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"I'm not too sure how Customer Balance Transaction comes into place here"

Because customer balance will be with platform, i was thinking of using the Customer Balance Transaction to just manage the overall prepaid credits amount.

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system like uber, however with the functionality for the customer to have a prepaid balance. (so customer of uber (platform), but don't know which driver future payouts will go to (stripe connect accounts))

Let me know if im completely thinking wrong here

[obtuse schooner]

Customer Balance Transaction is mainly used for Stripe Billing - Subscription and Invoicing: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/customer/balance

For prepaid credit amount, I'd recommend using your system to keep track of them. If any subscription / invoice is created on this specific customer, Stripe will take the customer balance for payments.

sorry stupid question from me here, can you point me to docs to transfer/pay from my platform stripe balance into a stripe connect balance?
Transfers API can be used: https://docs.stripe.com/api/transfers/create

[frank cloud]

oh thank you, idk how i missed that transfer. i think its starting to click now.

The Customer Balance Transaction, yeah im kinda just also using for my own internal systems for source of truth for balance amount. (that way if i invoice something directly through stripe, it will also be up to date for both sides)

thank ya again. should be g from here