thomasmol_best-practices

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[slow granite]

like this type of flow, is e.g. the "Credit balance" directly pulled from my stripe customer balance? mostly curious if this is common practice

[barren marsh]

hi!

I don't know how other merchants implement things.

They could be using the balance on a Customer object yes, they could also be managing a balance in their own database and only calling the Stripe API to process a payment when needed.

[slow granite]

okay interesting! are both okay to use for this use case? i like to just use the balance on customer object, seems easier for me to implement