christianairwallet_best-practices

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[proven dome]

What is your goal here, to maintain a balance balance via top ups?

How often is balance_available evaluated?
I don't think there's a specific schedule for this, but rather its event based driven by other actions that impact your balance

ie, a payout would reduce your available balance and a pending payment could become available increasing it

[hybrid ermine]

We want to build a 'Stripe workflow' that ensures our currency balances always has a minimum amount on them, to prevent 'paused' transfers. We're doing a Platform+Connect setup with separate charges and transfers.

[hybrid ermine]

How frequently are events updating balance_available? We’re concerned that if it updates very frequently (e.g. every minute), the workflow could trigger multiple times in a short period — each time initiating a new charge, even though previous charges are still pending.
This could result in multiple overlapping charges being created unintentionally.

[proven dome]

if there are multiple events which affect your balance in that window yes it could fire repeatedly.

[hybrid ermine]

Ok, are there any other ways of creating the workflow to prohibit this from happening?

[proven dome]

however you also have the pending balance condition, so if you had a payment pending that put your pending balance over that i would expect the condition to fail

I'd expect your pending condition should avoid a runaway process here, right?

Are you observing in tests that this is not working like you expect?

[hybrid ermine]

Got the point, we'll test it out 👍

[proven dome]

Hey i had a chance to review your workflow, one change i'd suggest is replacing "create a charge" with "create a topup" since your goal is topping up your balance

[hybrid ermine]

Hmm, since the Platform is based in the EU, I’m not sure this will be possible. As far as I know, the top-up functionality is part of Stripe Treasury, which is only available to platforms located in the US.