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last estuary Jan 10, 2022, 10:32 AM

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@devout sentinel sounds like you're missing passing the Stripe-Account header to call , which is required. You use your platform's API key and that header set to the ID of the connected account.

devout sentinel Jan 10, 2022, 10:34 AM

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I'm passing the account id of the connected account as well in the call for token creation

last estuary Jan 10, 2022, 10:36 AM

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you probably are passing a variable for the account ID in your code and the variable is null

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can you share the exact code you're using?

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for what it's worth anyway, the docs are really bad for this feature unfortunately. You really shouldn't use tokens at all for this, you should use https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-methods/connect#cloning-payment-methods

devout sentinel Jan 10, 2022, 11:03 AM

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Yes, turns out that the account id was being passed as null. Thanks.
I get a new error now...
'The customer must have an active payment source attached.'

Is this referring to the customer on the platform account?

last estuary Jan 10, 2022, 11:06 AM

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I'd need to see the API request that gave you the error to know

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can you post the request ID ? req_xxx https://support.stripe.com/questions/finding-the-id-for-an-api-request

devout sentinel Jan 10, 2022, 11:07 AM

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req_WBLTzYNqIjR4dQ

last estuary Jan 10, 2022, 11:29 AM

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looking, sorry for the delay

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yeah this is due to the horrible docs I alluded to basically

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this fails because the customer doesn't have any payment methods

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so there is nothing to clone

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remember this feature is not actually cloning customers, that's not what it does(maybe the docs say that, but it's not what happens). All it is is, you have a Customer on the platform account with a saved card. You can copy that card to a connected account .Then you can create a new separate Customer on the connected account and attach the cloned card to it; it's a "building block" for a concept of shared/cloned customers

devout sentinel Jan 10, 2022, 11:40 AM

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Okay. So I changed the code to first attach a source to the platform account before trying to create a token and then create the clone. I'm getting this error:
https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_wMXk1e8Ibt0oAo

last estuary Jan 10, 2022, 11:51 AM

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I wouldn't use Sources at all, they are deprecated

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but looking at your account you have been around for a while and have some Stripe contacts so I guess you have a legacy integration you're working with, so fair enough!

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I'm not familiar with that call you're making, but if you're using Source src_xxx objects(which you are as far as I can tell), you need to use https://stripe.com/docs/sources/connect#cloning-card-sources instead.

devout sentinel Jan 10, 2022, 12:05 PM

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can I just do this?

create customer on platform,
attach source to it,
clone source using above method,
create a regular customer on connected account ( same way as step 1, with stripe connect account as passed as parameter)
attach the cloned source to step 4
create a charge on connect account

last estuary Jan 10, 2022, 12:08 PM

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yep that's exactly what it is!

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that is indeed what you do. The docs like https://stripe.com/docs/sources/connect#cloning-card-sources is what Step 3 there is.

devout sentinel Jan 10, 2022, 12:08 PM

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Thanks a lot. Will try this

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