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dense summit Sep 9, 2021, 6:19 PM

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" i'd like each user to set their own subscription price" -> in this situation what is the user? The customer paying for the subscription, or a client that is collecting money from the subscriptoin and is then giveing you a cut?

wind vigil Sep 9, 2021, 6:35 PM

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dense summit " i'd like each user to set their own subscription price" -> in this situation w...

The user in that instance is the content creator, they should be able to set their own price while the platform takes a fee. The problem we’re running into is setting up the subscription payments to be multiuser when the subscription first gets created we have a little more flexibility to control it but each subsequent payment after seems to go directly through stripe meaning the payment would go back to the platform account. Is there an event the platform can subscribe to so that each monthly payment we’re able to keep a fee then pay the rest to the content creator?

dense summit Sep 9, 2021, 6:38 PM

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Gotcha, and have you already made decisions about which kinds of connect accounts you are working with?

wind vigil Sep 9, 2021, 6:41 PM

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dense summit Gotcha, and have you already made decisions about which kinds of connect account...

From my understanding when we create the subscription the subscribing user gets created as an external account, ideally when we call the payout method we just pay directly to the bank of the content creator they are subscribed to but the creators can also get assigned a stripe ID if that helps. But no matter the account types I haven’t found a way to call the payout method when a subscriber pays their monthly fee

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Since we don’t see that monthly payment, stripe just takes it and puts it into our account.

dense summit Sep 9, 2021, 6:48 PM

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Let's back up for a second - are you currently modeling this on top of Connect (https://stripe.com/docs/connect/accounts) ? If not, then that's the direction you need to move towards. We have no mechanism by which you can take payments and pay them out directly to the bank account of a client - it needs to be going through another Stripe account (which is part of Connect)

Choose your account type

Learn more about the different types of Stripe accounts you can use with Connect.

wind vigil Sep 9, 2021, 6:55 PM

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Sorry I should’ve started with that, currently using express and modeling following the docs. I guess I’m not understanding how when a user pays for the subscription service we are able to set a fee amount for our platform then pay the rest out to the person they are subscribed too.

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Reading the payout section in docs I thought we could jank together the payout function to go to a bank account and set the payout schedule to whatever was created when the user subscribed

dense summit Sep 9, 2021, 7:08 PM

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Have you taken a look at this (https://stripe.com/docs/connect/subscriptions#collecting-fees-on-subscriptions)

Create subscriptions with Connect

With Connect, you can create subscriptions for connected accounts, optionally taking fees in the process.

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You specifically want the section that is using application_fee_percent for a subscription with destination charges. This allows you to specify a portion that is kept by the platform, and the rest of the funds are for the connected account

wind vigil Sep 9, 2021, 7:17 PM

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That’s exactly what I was looking for, thanks. But with stripe connect as long as the creator they are subscribed to signed up for the service with the stripe auth the subscription will go to the person they are subscribed to and we are just able to snag the fee?

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Never mind just read about connected accounts thanks @dense summit

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