#achillesfirststand_stripe-apps-extension
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- achillesfirststand_api, 24 minutes ago, 4 messages
lime pollen
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How are you connecting to accounts?
gloomy halo
Using Stripe Connect.
lime pollen
How are you connecting the accounts? What is the mechanism? Are you creating Account objects yourself?
Are you using Onboarding links? Oauth connection tokens?
gloomy halo
Oauth tokens
lime pollen
Okay and using read_only scope is intended for Extensions but Extensions are deprecated.
What is your app inteded to do?
gloomy halo
Display user's stripe data, e.g. payments and user numbers, on charts. It's a general life tracking app where users track their health, finances, fitness etc. It currently uses stripe connect, read_write, but I want to see if I can set it up as read only.
lime pollen
That's an Extension
gloomy halo
ah ok, got confused, I thought extensions are deprecated and stripe connect is something different. I only made the app recently. I should be able to just set it to read only somewhere then?
Email from Stripe support said "Though it may be possible to update your application type to an "extension" instead of a "platform", Stripe extension is already deprecated in Stripe."
lime pollen
Stripe Extensions are deprecated.
What you should be using is the Stripe Apps style integration
This will allow you to have fine-grained read-only permissions
gloomy halo
Yes, I read about that. Are they able to send data to my app, much like an API would? I read that they are not intended for sending data outside of Stripe. THanks
lime pollen
I realize the docs can be confusing but that interpretation is incorrect.
You can use the Stripe Apps permissions model to allow specific read-only access to Stripe APIs and then you can either
- Listen for webhooks on those accounts to update your data
- Make API requests to collect data for each account
gloomy halo
Ok, great. Sounds like it does what I want, thank you.
lime pollen
While a lot of the docs show you how to build custom UIs in the Stripe Dashboard, you can also use Stripe Apps just to collect information for your server.
We kind of discuss this here: https://docs.stripe.com/stripe-apps/build-backend
gloomy halo
I will give this a go, thanks.
lime pollen
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