#consobs-vp_stripe-apps-data-access
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dusky mantle
Hi, can you add way more details to your business use case? How are you utilizing it currently and what does 'access our customer's stripe account' mean exactly?
@azure trellis are you still here?
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azure trellis
Hi, the typical use case is a customer signs up for our product. Next we need to be able to read their invoice data for example (using which we calculate ARR, for example)
We don't have anything setup yet, still designing it
reading their invoice data, list of customers, the products they have etc. will help us calculate metrics for them
rain flame
Hi 👋
I'm stepping in as my colleague needs to go
azure trellis
it's mostly read only, we're not pushing anything to stripe
rain flame
Since this server is specifically focused on helping developers code integrations with Stripe APIs, I recommend you use Stripe APIs to read this data.
I don't know what you mean by "do an App" but I don't think Stripe Connect would be involved here. Unless your users are Stripe Connected Accounts
azure trellis
as in, we're creating a webapp for a startup. yes, stripe APIs sounds right - can we set distribution to private and do a stripe apps upload?
then we go through oauth/redirect to get the tokens which we then use in the API, right?
rain flame
Okay sorry are you building a Stripe App? As in, do you want to extend Stripe Dashboard functionality?
That is something very different from most of the API integrations we help with so it is important that we are clear on what you are trying to do,.
Are you referring to the functionality we document here: https://docs.stripe.com/stripe-apps?
azure trellis
We need a way for our users to authorize us to read their invoice data
they may not be able to generate a restricted key and give that to us, so we're thinking stripe apps is the way to go
rain flame
You have not explained who your users are
azure trellis
our users are other businesses who have stripe accounts to receive payments from their users
rain flame
Okay, in that case I do recommend using Stripe Apps. They have much more fine grained object permission rules that allow you to request only the access you need.
You should be aware that the account that develops the application can not be a Stripe Connect platform. The way those permissions are configured on the account make each category mutually exclusive
rain flame
Sure thing! Happy to shed what 💡 I can 🙂