#dokosatchii_best-practices
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regal tundra
hello! i see a list of docs and subjects, do you have any specific questions?
sage solar
We wanted to get an assessment if the way we are setting up the relatonship between customer -> CaterPlace <- Caterer is correct
Specifically, we seem to only be able to send a portion of a payment to a connected account if the product is in the main account, but that would require us to register every product in our main account.
We also can't see how to authorize and then capture payments in the UI/dashboard when creating payment links
This is a lot to put down in text, please let me know whatever context you need
regal tundra
are you doing direct charges or destination charges? for direct charges you create the charge directly on the connected account, and thus you would create the price in the connected account too. for destination charges the oppposite is true, you create all charges and products in your platform and then transfer funds to the connected accounts
https://docs.stripe.com/connect/payment-links
sage solar
Yes, we want to do destination charges
regal tundra
ok cool, then yes you would need to create all products in your platform account
sage solar
Cool, thats what we are doing
that said, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to filter the products
in the product catalog
ideally by some metadata value
regal tundra
when you say "authorize and then capture" are you referring to this? where you authorize the card and then later capture the funds?
https://docs.stripe.com/payments/place-a-hold-on-a-payment-method
ok cool - i can't remember off the top of my head if payment links support manual capture but let me double check
sage solar
It was confusing, it didn't initially
but I think the API updated
Docs are a bit conflicting on the destination charge page vs payment links pages
regal tundra
ahh found it, here's the parameter:
https://docs.stripe.com/api/payment-link/create#create_payment_link-payment_intent_data-capture_method
sage solar
Yes, so this can't be done manually in the dashboard as well?
regal tundra
i am less familiar with the dashboard, our team generally works directly with the APIs
which leads me to my next point - i know that searching products by metadata is possible in the API but i am less sure if the dashboard supports it
https://docs.stripe.com/api/products/search
regal tundra
i also don't see a manual capture option in the dashboard, but again i am not a dashboard expert
regal tundra
i think for these dashboard specific questions it might be best if i redirect you to our support team, they will probably know better than me
regal tundra
yep! what you've described sounds like the right approach for destination charges
sage solar
since all products need to be made in the main account
If we wanted to use Stripe dashboard as a way to organize the products per caterer, does it make sense to just create the product in both the main account and connected-account?
Is there a way to link them so changes are synced?
Would workflows be the solution here?
If we wanted to use Stripe dashboard as a way to organize the products per caterer, does it make sense to just create the product in both the main account and connected-account?
This is also so caterers can see their menu's in their dashboard too
regal tundra
you could probably do that via the API by setting up a webhook and listening for product.created, product.updated and product.deleted events then performing the corresponding action on the connected account
https://docs.stripe.com/api/events/types#event_types-product.created
and yeah, workflows might work too. our team is also not super familiar with workflows but theoretically they are just a UI that wraps our events system
sage solar
I like the first approach a lot better
ty
wait, so theoretically, couldn't we do the same for payment authorization? I'll leave with that question
regal tundra
i'm not totally sure what you mean? what would you do with payment authorization?
for payments the equivalent would be direct charges
regal tundra
yep of course!
sage solar
Can I be forwarded to the "frontend/dashboard" team vs solution articles?
regal tundra
you can contact them by clicking the "contact support" button on the right side
you have to go through a little prompt for a bit but then you should be able to get to a person pretty quickly
sage solar
ty