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[latent storm]

This seems very close but not really to my use-case

https://docs.stripe.com/connect/separate-charges-and-transfers

However even this kind of ties the payment of connect users to the transaction of the user

[blissful ridge]

hi! sure, you can send transfers to connected accounts manually from the /v1/transfers API.

Obviously you still need to be putting money into your Stripe platform balance so you have something to transfer. Normally that is by charging customers(the link you posted). But for example https://docs.stripe.com/connect/top-ups might work

[latent storm]

We simply just want to payout the connect users at the end of the month based on our calculations of how much they should be paid (imagine the youtube ad-based model)

Oh I see, it is as simple as that?

What about the transfer_group?

[latent storm]

From this article, I had though that each transfer needs to be tied back to a transaction through the transfer_group

[blissful ridge]

well like

• at a technical level no, you can just do the transfer if you have sufficient available balance in your platform
• the point of using source_transaction is so you can do a transfer and have it automatically wait until the funds from the incoming charge clear and everything is linked
• for auditing/supportabilitiy reasons you should be putting some meaningful string in transfer_group so we can understand how/why the sums of money are moving

[latent storm]

Ah okay I see. In my use-case what would you recommend doing with the transfer_group param for (auditing/supportability)

The examples in the Stripe docs are using strings associated with transactions

Whereas the transfers we will be doing aren't necessarily linked with transactions

See this:
https://docs.stripe.com/api/transfers/create

[blissful ridge]

yes I know, since that's the normal use case and the one we happen to document

doing direct transfers from a pool of money added by top up us as far as I know fine, but it's probably something you'd talk to our sales team about and they'd help you get set up. I assume it's fine from our risk/supportabilitiy side too but that's not my area and as I say generally the sales team would help clarify that