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covert fox Dec 13, 2021, 1:45 PM

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Hey, can you clarify the ask a little better?

sacred swallow Dec 13, 2021, 1:46 PM

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yeah sure

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i am working on a project, i have a couple of users that have a connected account with my platform account on stripe. These users with connect accounts can sell stuff (e.g subscriptions) to other users. The first problem i faced was how to manage these customers, that's customers of the connected account.

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so i create the customers on the platform account and clone on the connected account. Now when i make charges while authenticated as a connected account, stripe collects a fee on the connected account since the charge originated from there. I don't want stripe to collect these fees from the connect account rather the platform account

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so basically

covert fox Dec 13, 2021, 1:58 PM

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Got it. So standard connected accounts with direct charges?

sacred swallow Dec 13, 2021, 1:59 PM

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custom accounts. forgot to mention

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custom connected

covert fox Dec 13, 2021, 2:00 PM

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Hmm, you generally shouldn't do direct charges with custom accounts

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Why specifically are you using direct charges? Have you considered destination charges? That way the platform is liable for fee

sacred swallow Dec 13, 2021, 2:03 PM

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yeah considering destination charges, because it seems its the only way we can archieve. But it was thinking this will make it difficult manage the transactions. since the customer can have subscription or purchase from multiple custom connected account under our platform account.

covert fox Dec 13, 2021, 2:03 PM

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What part in particular?

sacred swallow Dec 13, 2021, 2:06 PM

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listing all transactions for a particular connected account, managing products, prices and subscriptions as we will have to create them on the platform account when the user creates them on our app.

covert fox Dec 13, 2021, 2:07 PM

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Got it, yeah that is an additional consideration for sure

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Is there a reason why you were considering custom accounts? Typically the hardest Connect integration path

sacred swallow Dec 13, 2021, 2:08 PM

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The custom account was selected as a choice by the company. I wasn't involved during this process. An all present connected accounts are custom.

covert fox Dec 13, 2021, 2:10 PM

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Got it. It's worth reevaluating for sure as there's definite business implications (liability, etc) depending on account type and how you integrate: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/accounts

Choose your account type

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sacred swallow Dec 13, 2021, 2:11 PM

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okay, thanks i will check on this again. thanks for the help

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hello, i have another question. Is there an api which i can call to see all the stripe fees on a connected account or platform account ? i know there is the application fees object but is there anything for like stripe fees. Couldn't find it.

covert fox Dec 13, 2021, 2:20 PM

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You'd want to list the Balance Transactions, specifying type: 'stripe_fee': https://stripe.com/docs/api/balance_transactions/list

Stripe API reference – List all balance transactions

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