#je823_best-practices
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tropic turtle
hi there!
gilded fox
Hey Soma! Nice to chat to you š
tropic turtle
can you share more details about your payment flow? do end users pay you the full amount upfront, and you collect the full amount yourself (no need to send it to someone else)?
gilded fox
Term wise I'd say end customer = person buying a tshirt (pays client), client = owner of shopify store that uses our POD service (and pays us), us = owner of the POD service that receives a shopify webhook when theres a new order for us to fulfil
clients pay us, per order
so usage based billing might be right, as there's a card on file that gets charged - maybe daily. But ideally for us we'd charge the card per unqiue order
just trying to work out the best stripe product for us to use
tropic turtle
Term wise I'd say end customer = person buying a tshirt (pays client), client = owner of shopify store that uses our POD service (and pays us), us = owner of the POD service that receives a shopify webhook when theres a new order for us to fulfil
sorry it's still not clear to me.
end customer sends the funds ti you or to the shopify store owner? and then what happens to the funds?
gilded fox
I'll reformat
end customer is buying a t-shirt on a shopify store, owned by the "client" e.g. SomaCo
SomaCo's shopify store is integrated with us "PODCo", when someone makes an order on SomaCo, PODCo is responsible for printing and shipping that order
end customer doesn't know anything about PODCo, end customer pays SomaCo
When PODCo produces & ships an order, we charge SomaCo
SomaCo charges Ā£30 for 1 t-shirt, PODCo charges clients Ā£10 to fulfil 1 tshirt
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placid valve
Hey! Taking over for my colleague. Let me catch up.
It seems like a Direct charge use case here
Where PODCo is the platform account
and SomaCo is a Direct Connect Account to PODCo
You createa. direct charge with 10Ā£ as application fees
gilded fox
understood, is there a docs link I could a look at please? Imagine we'll need to onboard SomaCo to our stripe so they can save their payment details
this looks good
is there a product name for this or is it more just general usage of Stripe?
As in, it doesn't fall under "Connect" or "billing"
placid valve
You can use Billing/Subscription with Connect, same approach
gilded fox
as in, bill SomaCo every day for the days orders
placid valve
gilded fox
OK - all good, thank you for your help you've both answered my questions š