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tropic obsidian
Standard
Originally, I read that you had to use OAuth to connect existing accounts but I thought this had been replaced by the normal Connect flow?
Is this stack overflow question/answer correct? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78227934/stripe-connect-with-standard-accounts-onboarding-flow
trim yoke
yes OAuth is the only way to go if you wish to connect to an existing Standard account
If you do need to connect to existing Stripe Accounts you should use the OAuth flow, which allows you to connect to existing Stripe Accounts and also allows your users to create a new Stripe Account if they don't already have one.
from the stackoverflow you mentioned
trim yoke
the only thing that I don't necessarily agree on is the fact that you don't want to mix the two approaches
I see why Justin said that, and in general he's right
it's easier to maintain one workflow than having to deal with two
but I also prefer having a main integration path which is the "create account + account links" and only for certain merchants that don't want to create new Stripe Accounts so they don't have to onboard again, you can use OAuth and it would be a separate flow that you only use when necessary and not your default one
tropic obsidian
Great, thanks
If you're still there ... if we connect in live mode can we still send test mode requests over the API to the connected accounts?
trim yoke
do you mean using OAuth?
trim yoke
I'm not sure to be honest
let me double check
for the new flow you can't, you would only have access depending on which secret key you used to create the account
for OAuth, if you connect in livemode it use to give you access to both
I'm not sure if that changed, but based on our docs it seems it's still applicable
https://docs.stripe.com/connect/webhooks
both live and test webhooks are sent to your production webhook URLs. This is because you can perform both live and test transactions under a production application.
