#valashnez_best-practices
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green mulch
Hello! Typically you, as the marketplace, would take less in fees and pass more to the connected account. For example, if you normally took $5 from a $20 transaction in fees, meaing the connected account got $15, you could discount to $18 and take only $3, meaning the connected account still gets $15.
mortal perch
What if the buyer was receiving their first product free?
Ex: The seller is selling a product for $20. The buyer pays $0. How would we ensure the seller is still receiving $20 - fees in this case?
green mulch
You can create a Transfer to send $20 from your platform to the connected account: https://docs.stripe.com/api/transfers/create
mortal perch
Got it. And this is different from a top-up?
green mulch
You'll need to make sure you have a sufficient available balance on your platform.
A Top Up is used to put funds into your Stripe balance from an external source.
So you could create a Top Up to move $20 from your bank account to your Stripe balance, then use a Transfer to move $20 from your Stripe balance to your connected account's balance.
mortal perch
I see. So would there be any advantage to using Stripe Discounts / Coupons here?
green mulch
Possibly, it depends on how you're integrating, how you want things to show up, how your reporting works, etc.
mortal perch
But Stripe Discounts don't support this feature natively, right? Discounting for users but taking this discount from the platform instead of the connect account?
green mulch
Correct, you need to build this functionality on your end.
Our Discounts will make things cheaper or free and decrease the payment from the customer, but we don't have functionality to "make up the difference" from anywhere else, like your platform.
mortal perch
Gotcha - thank you so much for your help! Really appreciate it 🙂