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waxen zealot
Hi, what do you mean by identify the merchant? You're creating the card yourself, https://docs.stripe.com/api/issuing/cards/create so you'd know who that card belongs to right?
smoky solar
Hi, thanks for responding, when I use the card at a merchant business. I need to identify that merchant
waxen zealot
You would look at the merchant data: https://docs.stripe.com/api/issuing/authorizations/object#issuing_authorization_object-merchant_data
And if you're looking to make further connections, you would need to track that on your end
smoky solar
Yeas, I was looking at that but looking at other providers documentation like lithic.com and others I see they provide a merchant id which Deterministically identifies a merchant, I dont see that in your documentation
how can I know for sure which merchant is which ?
waxen zealot
I'm unsure how lithic.com works
We share the name of the merchant: https://docs.stripe.com/api/issuing/authorizations/object#issuing_authorization_object-merchant_data-name
Maybe I'm not fully understanding your question here
If the above does not solve the issue, can you share a specific example of what you expect vs. what you see in the response of the object?
smoky solar
name is good but I can not 100% rely on it to determine which merchant Im dealing with, is like a user id, I need a unique user Id for each of my users otherwise the DB will crash when I have multiple users with the same name
waxen zealot
Yeah, then it looks like you're wanting something more specific.. you would need to track this on your own
smoky solar
ok, do you know if I always get the merchant_data.network_id property, maybe I can use this as an id for each business ?
I see in the docs that is not null I guess
https://docs.stripe.com/api/issuing/authorizations/object#issuing_authorization_object-merchant_data-network_id
if I always get this property and is unique for each business I guess I can use it, The docs do not say
waxen zealot
I suspect we do to surfaced the details about the seller
I highly recommend that you test it and confirm that
smoky solar
ok, thanks for your time
waxen zealot
Sure!