#theonlybigbad_api

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lapis spokeBOT
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oak orchid
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Yeah you can have multiple accounts with the same email

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There's nothing restricting that

cold ibex
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Also is the Discord help just one on one help, or are these conversations public so we can see if others have had the same questions?

oak orchid
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They're public

cold ibex
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OK. So no issue if they have an connect account elsewhere with another website.

oak orchid
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Nope!

cold ibex
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How do i browse and search for other threads?

oak orchid
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There's a searchbar in the top right

cold ibex
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Sweet! Thanks. New to Discord.

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cold ibex
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Don't want to ask a question that I could search and find if someone already asked it. lol. But you guys are very fast and Sarted using the Postman with Stripe, and am very impressed. I can mock all of my API calls before I even touch code.

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Is there somewhere to suggest updates or features? With trying to use a PaymentLink to track Affiliate referrals, it doesn't let us do Transfer's with Subscriptions. It only allows application_fee_percent. I think it will work, but seems excessive that if I have a $15 subscription, and want to pay out referral commission of $1/month/active subscriber that I have to do a 93.33% application fee. It works, but transfers all of the money to the Connected Account and then fees $13 (the 93.33%) most of it back to the platform.

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If we could just set a Transfer of $1.00 or the actual commission rate it would be far simpler. Works I think from videos for non subscriptions.

robust crow
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Ah, I see what you mean. I take it you'd rather calculate the flat amount to transfer to the affiliate when creating the Subscription/having the customer complete payment so it's tied directly to the Subscription vs. having to calculate this amount manually and sending a separate Transfer to the connected account?

cold ibex
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We're using express acount, Affiliate's aren't gonna do anything but receive payouts. But Yeah, want flat rate, calculating is not hard, minor concern that if an Affiliate admin decides on a weird commission rate and we are using $15.00 for this subscription (possibly others) and a number divided by odd and then rounding issues may provide an off by penny issue. But the really odd is the whole bulk of money flowing to the Connect

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and then feeing back most of the money to the platform. While just doing a transfer.amount would be far simpler an in the dashboards make more sense.

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Just a suggestion, I think we will use the embedded dashboards and just provide the balances dashboard to the Express Account so, all they need to see is what commissions they have received, stored, pending and what's been payed out.

robust crow
cold ibex
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Yes, we are doing that. I went through the UI. Saw the payment link it created. The UI only offers the application_fee_percent in the UI. Replicated the request via Postman, but instead tried the transfer_data.amount and it errored, specifically stating that Subscriptions do NOT support that and to use the application_fee_percent. Then to try anyway I tried application_fee_amount and it to provided same error. Not available for "recurring" products use application_fee_percent, I think it stated.

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I did a fast forward simulation and the application_fee_percent did work correctly an the affiliate connected account received another $1.00 transfer for the renewal.

robust crow
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Got it, thanks for the context. I suspect the thinking here is a percentage could keep you from attempting to transfer more than the amount of a charge for a given billing period (e.g. say a customer used a coupon when signing up that made the subscription free for a month. calculating a percentage of 0 would still be 0)

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Integrating with Subscriptions directly (instead of via PaymentLinks) presents the same options: either using application_fee_percent or transfer_data.amount_percent

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I can share this feature request with our team for review. I think the only workarounds at the moment for PaymentLinks are to use a high application fee percent or omit application fee altogether, calculate how much to transfer to each affiliate manually (based on the # of active sign ups that used their referral), and make a one-off Transfer to them every month

cold ibex
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Ty. Yeah I discussed with website customer (I'm the developer) about the pros and cons of the many other routes we can go with, but they really liked that we are able to have all of it managed entirely by Stripe. Minimal integration work Account.create, AccountLink.create, PaymentLink.create, ... and then pretty much done. Your platform will handle all of the referral commissions, we can set the payouts to be monthly, with like a 5 day delay. The only issue is the extra $2/month cost per Affiliate Connected Account, but initially looking at only big influencers before opening gates for Joe Affiliate. Then we will look at other options or require them to be a subscriber/customer themselves, so at least we are getting the $15/month subscription to cover our $2/month connect account fees. Plus you handling their 1099-MISC for big affiliates is a savings there too.