mhiggie-account-link | Stripe Developers | Page 1

steep crown Jan 20, 2022, 11:29 PM

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Hey @gloomy sleet what's your question?

gloomy sleet Jan 20, 2022, 11:29 PM

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Hi, thanks for helping

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so I am able to onboard a user through the express connect account flow

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when i hit the accountlink endpoint i provided my express route

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this route calls the retrieve api and checks the users stripe account to see if charges_enabled and details_submitted

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doing all that on my backend with express and node

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but what do i actually send back to my frontend

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i was playing around with redirects but had trouble, also played around with a res.sendFile to send back a static html page from my back end but having issues with both

steep crown Jan 20, 2022, 11:34 PM

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not sure I follow what you're going for

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Like you have an Account, you check various things to confirm you have what you need (ignore details_submitted but look at requirements instead)

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but what does res.sendFile have to do with this?

gloomy sleet Jan 20, 2022, 11:37 PM

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i am providing a return url which is route that checks certain account details by making an additional api request to stripe, but what exactly do i send to the client here?

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am i supposed to redirect or sendFile? just not really sure the next step here and hoping you could explain a best practice?

steep crown Jan 20, 2022, 11:39 PM

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I'm sorry I'm really not following you

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Can you share real code which might help? You didn't mention the language for example

gloomy sleet Jan 20, 2022, 11:44 PM

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yeah that would be great

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working with node

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express

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all js

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thank you im still learning here, appreciate ur help

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const accountLink = await stripe.accountLinks.create({
account: stripeId,
refresh_url: 'https://example.com/reauth',
return_url: http://localhost:4741/stripe/return/${id},
type: 'account_onboarding',
});

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`//Route for return urls from accountLink
router.get('/stripe/return/:id', async (req, res, next) => {
let userID = req.params.id

let user = await User.findById(userID)

let stripeID = user.stripeId

const stripeAccount = await stripe.accounts.retrieve(stripeID);

console.log(stripeAccount)

const signOutUser = () => {
  user.token = null
  user.save()
}

let chargesEnabled = stripeAccount.charges_enabled
let detailsSubmitted = stripeAccount.details_submitted

if (chargesEnabled && detailsSubmitted) {
  // res.sendFile(__dirname + '/onboardingComplete.html')
  // log out user 
  // redirect to login page 
  // fire success message (this is in frontend)
  res.json({stripeAccount})
} else {
  res.sendFile(__dirname + '/onboardingIncomplete.html')
}

})`

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Eh ya know what don't spend any time on this. I think I just need to think more about it..

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thanks for the requirements pointer

normal aurora Jan 21, 2022, 12:01 AM

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Yeah, I find it helpful to write down what I want my applications/integrations to do. First from a user perspective and then break that down into functionality I need to build out. But it helps if you know the entire flow start to finish first.

gloomy sleet Jan 21, 2022, 12:07 AM

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definitely

thanks for the help. I wish I could articulate my issue better lol '

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