#ivan-checkout
tender jungle
@umbral pine that's more of a question for our support team https://support.stripe.com/email as it's more of a policy question than a technical one
https://stripe.com/docs/multiple-accounts
You must use separate Stripe accounts for projects, websites, or businesses that operate independently from one another.
from the way you describe your business though, you should probably be using Connect (https://stripe.com/docs/connect/)
umbral pine
We will have a website under the brand Great Visitor Experiences (GVE) with a STRIPE Account. We will then be onboarding 100's of independent visitor attractions onto to our website with their own profile and url for tickets etc. Our thoughts are that each attraction will have their STRIPE account as well. GVE will accept the payment through its STRIPE account, offer the customer a confirmation and then take our commission and send the balance to the visitor attraction. Our thoughts is that this would be a seamless automated process. Comments welcomed
tender jungle
Sounds like a perfect use case for Connect to me! That's exactly what it's for(onboarding other entities that provide services/process payment and then routing funds to them). I'd start with the docs I linked.
umbral pine
Ok that is good. I have a sales call already set up to clarify a few things there but needed to double check that the standard Connect STRIPE account could achieve what we want to do in terms of collecting multicable payments from 100's of firms using the one account. In terms of our flow chart - we see it as the following - Charge the customer as per the sell rate of the individual ticket eg €10 - take GVE commission of 5% - take STRIPE Commission and charge of eg. 1.4% plus €0.25 and then forward the balance on to the attractions account
tender jungle
sure that's a common use case of Connect.
i.e. that's just https://stripe.com/docs/connect/direct-charges#flow-of-funds-with-fees for example
umbral pine
Can you create any flow of funds flow that you want
tender jungle
depends what you mean by that and what flow it is, things are pretty customisable but there are enough trade-offs and edge cases that I can't give you any kind of blanket answer!
umbral pine
I mean that we can create the flow as per the example that I shared which is similar to your example from the website
tender jungle
your example sounds like the same flow so I think the answer is yes
umbral pine
That is great for now, thanks for your help