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solid island
Generally, you wouldn't re-use an existing Stripe account when onboarded them to your platform. You'd use the API to create an Account, generate an Account Link to onboard them and then when your user visits the link they can authenticate with their Stripe email/password and select the account to onboard
clever canopy
Yes, we tried this but after entering the existing email and password we didn't receive the already existing account list. Any settongs for this?
solid island
we didn't receive the already existing account list
I don't know what that means
The onboarding flow will generate a new unique acct_xxx ID yes
clever canopy
I received the list but this is only the accounts already created in platform account
I need to link to account already created with stripe with same email outside platform account
solid island
I'll delete that screenshot as it contains PII
solid island
I need to link to account already created with stripe with same email outside pl...
As explained, you cannot
solid island
Why specifically do you need to connect a specific account?
clever canopy
Because the customer is using 2 different ecommerce sites but want to store all payments at one stripe account only.
And we are using checkout session create api which can be generated only with platform linked connected accounts
Can we create checkout session for any account outside platform?
solid island
Can we create checkout session for any account outside platform?
No, they need to be conncted
AFAIK there is no way to retain a unique acct_xxx ID across two platforms like you describe. You can maybe try via the OAuth flow: https://docs.stripe.com/connect/oauth-standard-accounts
But I think that creates a new acct_xxx under the hood too