#paulchrisluke_connect-business-model
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- paul_connect-reconciliation, 20 hours ago, 41 messages
red bramble
@subtle sigil too we are both working on this, thank you!
nevermind we found it so sorry!
rare pine
Okay, where are you seeing this data?
red bramble
issuer object
I suppose my question is this @rare pine :
we are using https://docs.stripe.com/connect/separate-charges-and-transfers
and
https://docs.stripe.com/connect/charges
We want to make a platform similar to https://lawpay.com which helps lawyers send invoices and recieve payments.
Our plan is to use separate charges and transfers to collect all payments and send transfers to lawyers monthly.
should we be using connected accounts in this case?
rare pine
I'm confused. Separate Charges & Transfers is a Stripe Connect funds flow. You would have to use Connected Accounts for this work.
subtle sigil
so we want to make monthly payments to our users. we were exploring what's the best way to do this. Then we found that if we use connected accounts we don't have to worry about onboarding and payment related stuff we can just do a payout and we were using direct charges in that case but the problem is the connected account has to pay the application fee which is not the ideal case we just want to payout them the whole amount and our platform will bear the charges/fees. So yesterday we opened a thread and we got a suggestion to use separate charges and transfers. But now the issue is that in this case connected account is only being used for payouts, but in the previous case we were creating customers and invoices on connected accounts so everything was organised correctly. Now we do get the fee and other charges but there's no direct way for us to know from stripe for which connected account this invoice was from as the activity is empty in this case. Is their way where we can track all the stripe fees and payout fee but invocies/customers are still part of connected accounts
rare pine
so we want to make monthly payments to our users. we were exploring what's the best way to do this.
That's going to be using Connect. We don't support paying out to Customer objects.
Looking at the rest of your discussion, I think you need to thoroughly review our Connect docs
https://docs.stripe.com/connect/how-connect-works
There are multiple types of accounts and funds flows. These impact who pays what fees, where objects like Customers and Payment Intents are created, and other features. Understanding these configurations and how they support your business model is critical to successful implementation and beyond the scope of a Discord thread.
If, after reviewing these docs you have specific questions and how to work with the Stripe APIs to achieve specific outcomes, we can help you here.
subtle sigil
okay sure, thanks