#Dan-express
odd plover
hard to say without working deeply with you on your integration.
Do you use OAuth or do you create the accounts directly in the API?
quick sinew
I'm asking.
odd plover
ok! so in that case the only way I think the user can create a new account is if you're calling the API to create one.
ideally you'd authenticate the user in your system before you create an Account for them https://stripe.com/docs/connect/express-accounts#create-account
if it's an existing user you should know the ID of their existing Express account that you previously created since you'd store it in your database with the authentication of the user, and you'd just generate and redirect to an AccountLink to continue onboarding that account instead of creating a new account.
quick sinew
Perfect thanks - I'll let the devs know.
In addition, I'm not sure if this is a dev question or not.
All new signups are forced through the express account creation process, and we're trying to migrate our old standard account connections over to Express.
We're getting some push back on this. Partly due to people not wanting to go through the express sign up process admin, and partly because they dont' want to have a new separate express account, that partitions data away from their standard account. E.g. if they have a big business and what we do is only part of it, they don't want their money, accounting APIs and Analytics separated across two platforms.
When they sign up to an express account (rocket ride style) I notice that you do ask for their existing login details if they have them - but when they complete this, all of their payment data is shown in their express dashboard only, and not in their dashboard they see on stripe.com.
Is there a way to have their standard account on stripe.com still pull through the data from their express account with us, if they connect them?
odd plover
all of their payment data is shown in their express dashboard only, and not in their dashboard they see on stripe.com.
yep they are entirely separate accounts, a user might have a 'direct' Standard account with a real dashboard, and an Express account with a platform, but they don't share any information
so not it's not possible, you can't really merge the accounts this way
I know it's a common feature request to be able to migrate an existing Standard account to an Express account(or vice versa) but as far as I know it's not something we've built yet