#Daniele-connect
balmy olive
to get to the point, basically this is what we need to accomplish:
we're a SaaS e-commerce platform, the businesses signed up on our platform have customers of their own
we want to let those businesses sell subscriptions, recurring products that are billed to their customers
what's the best way to accomplish this through stripe?
one idea was to send a new invoice at the end of every billing period to the customer, created on our platform account, using the invoice on behalf of field
however invoicing does not seem the appropriate way to do so, can it be accomplished directly through stripe's own subscriptions?
example:
creating the customer on our platform account,
billing the customer a recurring subscription and then sending the subscription amount to the connected account
is there a better way?
additionally, through subscriptions, what's the best way to charge the customer?
should we ask him for a credit card to be charged, add it as a source and then create a subscription through it?
or is there a stripe sdk integration that lets us do it with ease?
rustic orbit
seems like you'd want to use direct subscriptions on the connected account then yep! https://stripe.com/docs/connect/subscriptions#direct
That is the best way to do it. Creating the Customer and Subscription on the connected account.
Subscriptions create and charge Invoices, to be clear.
additionally, through subscriptions, what's the best way to charge the customer?
should we ask him for a credit card to be charged, add it as a source and then create a subscription through it?
or is there a stripe sdk integration that lets us do it with ease?
you should just use Checkout (https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/checkout), it supports all this(creating the subscription and collecting the payment details) and works with Connect.
balmy olive
ok perfect, thanks
does the api also allow to create prices on the connected account?