#tarun_connect-balance
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- tarun_connect-balance, 1 day ago, 62 messages
visual basalt
granite sierra
Hello
When you say a user's balance, who exactly are you referring to?
Are you referring to connected accounts or customer objects?
visual basalt
So thats where I am a little confused
I have two types of transactions one where the user accepts the work from another user and the money for the job gets transfered to the photographer
and then I also have subscriptions the photographers can offer where users can sign up if they want
the transfer amount shows up but the subscriptions dont
so for example here is a subscription ID
sub_1PxtlIBTLjxEqPSBCOvFzq0f
this subscription amount doesnt currently show up for the creator even though it has been paid
the accounts should be connected accounts since the subscription if unique to the seller and not offered by the platform itselkd
itself*
granite sierra
The subscription you're creating is created on the platform - https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_46klDqCkjXPDPx
And I don't see a transfer being made to the connected account for any amount..
Can you confirm which account is the connected account and which account is the platform account?
visual basalt
one moment
cus_QpYWSPuODOEpzK
this is the customer ID of the person who mapde the payment for the subscription (in this case business owner)
acct_1PXzSYPhGdKHtuQw
this is the account of the person who i thought i set up to make the subscription
AKA the person who should be recieving the payment from the subscription
granite sierra
So the subscription creation request is being made from acct_1PUiNnBTLjxEqPSB (likely your platform account?)
visual basalt
how do i find the platform account ID?
granite sierra
Its the account that your API key belongs to
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zinc zephyr
tarun_connect-balance
visual basalt
acct_1PUiNnBTLjxEqPSB is my platform account
i just confirmed
this is what my create subscription route looks like as well if this helps
zinc zephyr
Sorry that's a really large portion of code in a picture. Can you ask a clear/exact question focused on a few lines of code (like 3/5 at most) instead of an entire picture of your screen?
visual basalt
so the issue im having is when i create the subscription it needs to be linked to the correct stripe connect account (platform takes a small fee) the rest should go to the connect account
sub_1PxtlIBTLjxEqPSBCOvFzq0f
I thought I did it for this subscription but it seems the platfrom created the subscription rather than the specific user
zinc zephyr
Gotcha! So yeah if you look at the API request that created the Subscription, it's https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_46klDqCkjXPDPx. It happened on your own Stripe account with your own API keys and no Connect-related parameters at all. So that's all expected.
Now let's pause and take 2 steps back as there are many ways to integrate Stripe Connect.
First: What type of connected accounts did you pick and what flow of funds that went with it?
visual basalt
express accounts and I went with direct fees and trasfers because we hold the money for one time jobs until the buyer approves the sellers works
than we manually transfer it to the seller using the API
zinc zephyr
what does "direct fees and transfers" mean?
zinc zephyr
Gotcha perfect. So you as the platform take all the funds for yourself and then transfer those funds to the connected account.
visual basalt
so if you pay me for photos, the platform charhes you for the amount and then once you accept my photos the money gets transferred to me
correct
zinc zephyr
Can you share the exact Transfer id tr_12345 that you created for that Subscription?
visual basalt
the issue is if the buyer wants to set up a long term subscription (recurring services) i dont have that set up properly so the money just comes to our account and doesnt get transferred
it only works for the one time transactions with my code currently
How do you reccomend I set this up for the subscriptions?
zinc zephyr
The flow you chose explicitly says "I will take all the funds and figure it out myself". So the idea in this case, if you keep this approach, is every time an Invoice is paid, you would then decide who gets the funds and create a Transfer each time for the underlying PaymentIntent (like you do for a one-time payment).
Does that make sense?
(I can then give an alternative)
visual basalt
it does
is that what you reccomend doing tho?
for the subscription since there is already trust between the two parties could i instead just set up a subscription on behalf of the seller and then just take a fee from it?
zinc zephyr
yes that would be much easier!
visual basalt
My only concern with this
is will it make it hard to figure out how much we actually made in profit?
since some payments are transferred and some are fees we take directly out of the subscriptions? Like would it make it sloppy the sales data?
zinc zephyr
I don't see why it would no. You still get the funds but you automatically transfer a portion of those funds to the right connected accounts
visual basalt
can you advise me on how I would set this up?
Ill rerun the code and send the updated request ID's so you can see if i set it up correctly
zinc zephyr
Mostly you change how you created the Subscription and you configure transfer_data for it, see https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-transfer_data