#elem103_best-practices
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timber tundra
Hello! do give me some time to take a look at this
timber tundra
You could try authorising and then capturing the payment separately.
If you are doing mode='payment'.After the payment is authorised, you would know the final amount after discount and then be able to update the application fee you are collecting on the underlying payment intent. Then you can capture the payment.
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severe marten
Ok, I think maybe i'm not clear. It looks like the capture method is for the client and not for the intermediary that we charge against.
We have stripe connected accounts that we are charging for. When we charge a client, the amount charged (minus the stripe fees) is sent to the connected account. We also take a cut off this transfer by adding an application_fee_amount during checkout session. We are not trying to charge the client less. We are transferring less to the connected account.
From my understanding, capturing the payment separately allows us to capture less from the client and not actually send less to the connected account. Does this make sense?
sterile walrus
Hi there, jumping in for my colleague
Yes you are correct, this is about the calculation involved with application fee
To be clear, could you outline an example, what it is currently calculated and what do you want to achieve?
ie you charge your Customer $100, Stripe fee = $3.6, Amount incoming = $96.4 then you take application_fee from here
severe marten
That's what we are trying to achieve.
We already have that working. The problem is that the application fee right now is part of the checkout session and the checkout session is before discount is applied. What we really need is % application fee.
So let's say, customer pays $100. We create a checkout session of $100 with 10% fee ($10 application_fee_amount). Let's say we have 50% discount, then it will become $50. In this case, we want the application fee to be $5 instead of $10. How can we achieve that?
sterile walrus
I see, is the discounts fixed before you create the Checkout Session?