mtanzi-account

[steady rose]

Hi there, the Stripe-Account header is only applicable for the use with Connected accounts [0].

[0] https://stripe.com/docs/connect/authentication

If you are thinking of independent accounts, you could consider setting up a Standard account, https://stripe.com/docs/connect/standard-accounts

[dire geode]

Hi makoto! thanks for the quick reply

Is there any advantage on using stripe connect vs normal stripe account for this use case?

let me describe the use case better 🙂
we need multiple stripe account depending on the billing address (US, UK, EU) the reason mainly is to have a better management of taxes and invoices

what do you think is better to use, stripe connect for the other accounts or 3 normal accounts

[nimble linden]

Either approach works, it's common to do either of them. It kind of depends how interactivity there is between the accounts(for example if you want to re-use saved customer payment details between accounts you'd have to have a main account and use Connect)

if they're entirely independent it might be easiest to just keep them as separate accounts

[dire geode]

I see... Thanks a lot for the explanation

when you say reuse the payment details between accounts, you mean that the customer might be present in both the both the accounts?

also if I want to move a customer from an account to another (the customer change the billing address) which option would make this action easier ?

[nimble linden]

I mean if you wanted to clone payment details from your main account to charge them on other accounts(https://stripe.com/docs/connect/cloning-customers-across-accounts) you'd have to use Connect for that

[nimble linden]

you can't move things directly from one account to another, it's more like a "triangle" where there is one main platform account with all the customer details and you can copy them from there to individual accounts

[dire geode]

so your suggestion would be to have one main account where all the customer are crated and then once the billing information are collected we can copy those customer into the correct account.

then all the billing information will reside inside the localized account: subscriptions, products, invoices, etc

correct?

[nimble linden]

it's not really a suggestion per se, since it depends on if that's something you want and it's how you would use the product, I'm just mentioning it as an option and reason you might want to use Connect over having entirely separate accounts

but overall yes, what you describe is above is how that cloning feature can be used(though it's a little complex to actually build all that logic, it is possible!)