#gabrieln_best-practices
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paper badger
Hello, yes you can use that OAuth flow to connect already existing accounts. One thing to keep in mind though is that you may still be connecting to a new account with that flow. Stripe Accounts can only connect to one platform at a time, so if an account tries to connect to you but is already connected to another platform, we will make a new account under their login and that new account is the one that connects to your platform.
Any which way, you get the account ID as part of the last step in that flow. The account ID will be returned as the stripe_user_id in the OAuth token request response https://docs.stripe.com/connect/oauth-reference#post-token-response
finite willow
I understand, thanks! But let me just double check, is there a way to avoid creating a new account if the user is already connected to another platform or is there is no way around that?
inland pineBOT
paper badger
Unfortunately not. If they disconnect from the other platform first, that would allow them to connect their existing account to your account, but the existing account may not want to do that and some users may not recognize that they are connected to another platform before connecting to you.