Cody - Connect | Stripe Developers | Page 1

hasty moss Oct 19, 2021, 9:39 PM

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Hello! How can we help?

thick mason Oct 19, 2021, 9:44 PM

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Hey Rubeus! We're building an expert marketplace with one side being Clients (companies that pay us for expertise) and the other side being Experts.

We'd like for the Clients to give us their billing details up-front to be stored as a payment method under their POC's Stripe Customer obj. We'd also prefer to use Express for the experts to get onboarded.

From what I see, it looks like Connect has its own customer object that's created under each account? Is this correct?

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We would prefer to have one customer object which can be charged by any of the Connect accounts, and we take some % fee off the top

hasty moss Oct 19, 2021, 9:45 PM

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From what I see, it looks like Connect has its own customer object that's created under each account? Is this correct?

No, I'm not sure what you're referring to here. Can you provide more details or a link to what you're seeing?

thick mason Oct 19, 2021, 9:53 PM

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Here's a high level example

ACME Co signs up with us, is added to Stripe w/ billing info & is charged monthly subscription
ACME meets with an expert and is billed an hourly rate (we take X%)
The expert uses Express to get paid

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basically we don't want to be sending a payment link every time a company is meeting with an expert, we would just like to bill their acct using the existing payment method

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is this possible via the API? I've been using the test front-end to explore Connect thus far

hasty moss Oct 19, 2021, 9:58 PM

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It sounds like ACME Co would be represented by a Customer on your platform account, the Subscription and hourly rate charges would also live on your platform account, then you would transfer a portion of those funds to the Express account.

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You would likely use destination charges for this: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/destination-charges

thick mason Oct 19, 2021, 10:00 PM

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Okay cool, and would we have to set our payout schedule to manual in that case?

hasty moss Oct 19, 2021, 10:03 PM

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That's entirely up to you. It would work either way.

thick mason Oct 19, 2021, 10:06 PM

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Great, this makes a lot more sense now. Thanks for your help 🙂

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Sorry one other question, is there any way we can customize this via Express settings?

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since it's tailored to individuals/experts this may confuse some when getting onboarded

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or is the only option to go white label for now?

vagrant charm Oct 19, 2021, 10:13 PM

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you can pre-fill it in that case that way it won't show up

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https://stripe.com/docs/connect/express-accounts#create-account

hasty moss Oct 19, 2021, 10:13 PM

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You can also specify a recipient agreement I believe which will change the flow and omit some questions: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/service-agreement-types#recipient

thick mason Oct 19, 2021, 10:14 PM

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You guys are awesome, thanks so much!

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