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green fern Nov 10, 2021, 7:54 AM

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Hi there, please allow me to ask a few questions to confirm your use case 🙂

You would like to set up a platform where sellers can enrol into, when customers make a purchase on your platform, you would like to have a monthly payout set up to pay the sellers their relative commision?

median kettle Nov 10, 2021, 8:07 AM

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yes exactly, so say we have a subscription based service and we want to implement an affiliate program. I.e. people will be able to sign up for our program and receive a link. Whenever somebody registers to our subscription based service the owner of the link they came from will receive an affiliate commission from us.

green fern Nov 10, 2021, 8:42 AM

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In this case, it would be great if you could consider and explore the Custom Connected account option, where it allows you to manage multiple Connected accounts within your own Platform account [0].
Upon creating new sellers/sales Connected accounts [1] (you can manage this within your Platform) and navigate to the Product (for say subscription in your scenario), and create payment links for customers to pay for [2].
The amount will then appear within the Custom account's balance, where you can manage the Payout in terms of how much to pay the sellers/sales [3].

[0] https://stripe.com/docs/connect/custom-accounts
[1] https://dashboard.stripe.com/connect/accounts/overview
[2] https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-links
[3] https://stripe.com/docs/connect/instant-payouts

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One disadvantage of this approach is having to manage different subscription products and Payment Links within the different Custom accounts, also, the sum of all payments are distributed across multiple accounts, if you would like the sum of subscriptions to appear as a total within your Platform account. Another approach is:

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