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tight hemlock
Hi!
Is there a way to connect the platform account to itself on Stripe Connect?
hmm, that's something we explicitly blocked a few years ago as it lead to lots of problems and confusion 🙂
But sure, your use case is one that I'm aware of(you use your own software to also sell things and in that way it would be easier to treat yourself as also a connected account). But it was a rare enough way of operating that we acknowledged blocking self-connection would have an acceptable impact versus the benefits
what I'd suggest is integrating the payments directly from your own account as regular non-Connect payments
void canopy
That makes sense I guess, so providing when using the api, providing a stripeAccount sometimes, but not always
tight hemlock
or you could create a new Stripe account just for selling and connect that, it's a little messy(since then the revenue from your application fees is not on the same account as the one doing those direct sales) but I think it mostly works
void canopy
Yeah I'd rather avoid having two stripe accounts for the same legal entity
I think the original set up you described would work well enough for us. I guess one question is: for billing, can users view all of the invoices in one place or are there different portals for each account?
tight hemlock
each account's data is all separate