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lone ironBOT Sep 22, 2025, 4:05 PM

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achillesfirststand_api, 24 minutes ago, 4 messages

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lime pollen Sep 22, 2025, 4:06 PM

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Hello 👋

Please be advised we expect you to be available for synchronous chats..

How are you connecting to accounts?

gloomy halo Sep 22, 2025, 4:06 PM

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Using Stripe Connect.

lime pollen Sep 22, 2025, 4:07 PM

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How are you connecting the accounts? What is the mechanism? Are you creating Account objects yourself?

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Are you using Onboarding links? Oauth connection tokens?

gloomy halo Sep 22, 2025, 4:08 PM

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Oauth tokens

lime pollen Sep 22, 2025, 4:09 PM

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Okay and using read_only scope is intended for Extensions but Extensions are deprecated.

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What is your app inteded to do?

gloomy halo Sep 22, 2025, 4:10 PM

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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 Sep 22, 2025, 4:10 PM

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That's an Extension

gloomy halo Sep 22, 2025, 4:11 PM

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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?

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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 Sep 22, 2025, 4:15 PM

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Stripe Extensions are deprecated.

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What you should be using is the Stripe Apps style integration

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https://docs.stripe.com/stripe-apps/migrate-extension

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This will allow you to have fine-grained read-only permissions

gloomy halo Sep 22, 2025, 4:16 PM

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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 Sep 22, 2025, 4:16 PM

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I realize the docs can be confusing but that interpretation is incorrect.

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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 Sep 22, 2025, 4:18 PM

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Ok, great. Sounds like it does what I want, thank you.

lime pollen Sep 22, 2025, 4:18 PM

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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 Sep 22, 2025, 4:19 PM

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I will give this a go, thanks.

lime pollen Sep 22, 2025, 4:20 PM

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Happy to shed what 💡 I can 🙂

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