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proud thicket
uhh, it's using the new nomenclature
magic meteor
Mostly you want to set their settings.branding: https://docs.stripe.com/api/accounts/object#account_object-settings-branding
proud thicket
controller stuff?
magic meteor
I find some settings that can be changed via the Account resource API, but it doesn't appear to contain any of the Branding settings available in the dashboard when I compare the two.
Can you explain more about this?
What have you tried so far?
Do you have examples?
proud thicket
basically they're standard accounts in regards to the charging pattern, where it is direct charges and the customers think they're transacting directly with our clients. But, I don't want to give them a full dashboard, so it will likely use embedded components to give them what we need.
I can control the branding and everything already, that's fine. What I'm talking about is this:
so that's all of the billing/invoicing settings from our platform dashboard.
magic meteor
Ah I see
proud thicket
but I would assume a connected account has a similar set of settings.
and if I'm doing direct charges w/ invoices, I assume it uses their settings.
magic meteor
Yeah that is why they would need a full Dashboard here
You can't control those Invoice settings via the API
proud thicket
interesting, ok.
magic meteor
The Connected Account has to set those themselves if you are using Direct Charges
proud thicket
I guess we could use destination charges, but I would still want to pass on whatever the stripe fees are. I don't believe there's a way to do that automatically though.
magic meteor
Yes that is correct. You would bake the fees into the amount you take as the platform in that case.
proud thicket
but I can't adjust them based on payment method dynamically, can I?
like, for example, ACH is cheaper than a card.
magic meteor
That depends on your integration flow
There are flows where you can inspect the PaymentMethod prior to charging like https://docs.stripe.com/payments/build-a-two-step-confirmation
proud thicket
that doesn't work with invoices though, right?
magic meteor
Yes it does
proud thicket
oh interesting.
magic meteor
Are you creating one-off Invoices here or Subscriptions?
proud thicket
but I take it that means there is no such capability baked into stripe to be able to price the application fee dynamically based on payment methods used.
these are one-off invoices.
magic meteor
but I take it that means there is no such capability baked into stripe to be abl...
Correct, a feature like that does not exist at the moment
proud thicket
Correct, a feature like that does not exist at the moment
I guess it's this? https://docs.stripe.com/connect/platform-pricing-tools
in beta though.
it looks like from the screenshots I could use it to basically mirror the Stripe fees based on payment method.
magic meteor
Yeah, sorry, we aren't really familiar with beta features but you are right -- I do think that would work for your use-case actually
proud thicket
OK, and on_behalf_of would apply the connected account's branding.
yeah, it's probably easier to do a destination charge so I can control the invoicing retries and stuff if that's not available via the API.
we've tried the standard account approach before, with the full dashboard, but it just wasn't the right fit. It really needs to be controlled within our app's dashboard, as these customers aren't online payment savvy.
magic meteor
Yep we recommend destination charges + on_behalf_of for that then
proud thicket
alright, I'll ask to be let into the beta and see what happens.
magic meteor
👍
proud thicket
You can't control those Invoice settings via the API
So, I could totally see this being useful as an embedded Connect component. Not sure if that's planned but wanted to pass it along as a feature request.
The reason I ask is that my use case should really be using direct charges, since it's not a marketplace type business that fits the destination charge model like the docs recommend. It's more about enabling our customer to collect payments from theirs, but with a more advanced billing system for the fee and fine use case that Stripe can't natively support. We just power the payments and dunning via Stripe invoicing.
However, a lot of the other information like branding, support numbers, additional notices configs, fee and fine schedules, etc live in other places outside of Stripe. I sync the relevant pieces of info to Stripe, like the branding for example. Being able to give my connected accounts control over the invoice settings without letting them change other items would probably be the most ideal solution.
magic meteor
Yeah I think that is a totally fair feature request -- I'm happy to pass it along.
proud thicket
I think I've already asked for embedded components for managing invoices too, like an invoice list and invoice details page mirroring what the dashboard offers today.
but if that's not already in there you could bundle those as well.
cheers!
magic meteor
Will do