#markroseberg-discounts
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@gray pond not really unfortunately! PIs have a minumum amount, if you're not actually charging the customer then you can't create a PI. You'd probably want a more custom solution where you can trigger your reconciliation code directly in those cases rather than using a PI+Stripe webhook
The alternative/other way to do this would be to use our Invoicing product (https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/integration) since that lets you do a "$0 payment" with objects/papertrail created in the Stripe side.
or for example in this situation the processing fee got from owners of the Stripe account?
not sure what that means? Is it a separate question from everything else? There's no payment(and no fee) if the amount is 0.
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not sure what that means? Is it a separate question from everything else? There's no payment(and no fee) if the amount is 0
No, it's not a separate question. Just wanted to know if there is for example a way like paying processing fee by owner and the client doesn't get affected by paying for processing fee (50 cents).
Thank you for you reply. I will test invoicing API.
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who is owner and who is the client?
to be clear, the merchant (the Stripe account processing the payment) pays the processing fee
if you're using our Connect product there's way for a platform account to call the API on behalf of another account for them to process the payment and pay the fee https://stripe.com/docs/connect/direct-charges
not sure if you're building such a marketplace/Connect platform, your question didn't touch on that
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The company is the owner of the account of Stripe which we use its publishable key and secret key in the code. The clients are the users who want to pay for the product.
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ok. The client(I'd call them the customer) don't pay the credit card processing fee.
that's the merchant! (the Stripe account)
the customer pays the merchant and the merchant chooses the amount they charge to be enough to cover their cost of doing business (like payment processor fees)
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Yes, got it. So based on what you're saying there is no way to do the scenario I told at the beginning with payment intent API.
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yep, if you're not actually charging the customer (e.g the intended amount is less than our minimum or is $0), then you can't create a PI. You'd probably want a more custom solution where you can trigger your reconciliation code directly in those cases rather than using a PI+Stripe webhook ; or you can use our Invoicing product instead of raw PIs