#smriti15s-customer-balance
pearl shoal
Hey! What is a 'customer' in this instance? A Customer object?
A Customer can't have a 'balance' like I think you mean. That balance is reference to a credit relating to billing/invoices: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/customer/balance
olive cove
So the use case is:
Every supplier has a connected account on our system. Our customers are supposed to pay to suppliers through platform account. I want to implement something like, customer have an option to add funds to their stripe balance by using card/becs etc. Later on we have to use that balance to place the order. Once the order is placed, we want to transfer the amount to our connected account (supplier). So, which feature of stripe will fit in here?
pearl shoal
There's currently no way to credit a customer balance with actual funds right now, no
Nor can you make a payment/transfer to a connected account from that balance
If you wanted to implement something similar, you'd need to track those payments and where they were assigned yourself
pearl shoal
Well you'd be using Payment Intents to capture payment, but you'd probably need to assign some metadata to track via a reference of sorts