#🤪🤪 - Stripe OAuth
pallid relic
This will require another link as we still require 2FA for Express accounts to log in.
neon abyss
Okay gotcha. Curious - is it even common for platforms to use Stripe as a login provider, and if so what would the benefits be?
if you know any examples I would love to check them out
pallid relic
Are you referring to this flow? https://stripe.com/docs/connect/oauth-express-accounts
neon abyss
yes exactly
pallid relic
That process is no longer the recommended flow. As you'll see here in the first little Callout box: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/express-accounts
I haven't done a deep dive into the pros/cons but I suspect you could save yourself some pain by avoiding that approach.
river tapir
just to provide more context, you can't really use the OAuth flow as a "login with Stripe", it won't work/doesn't really make sense in general
neon abyss
Gotcha, I believe it but could you share some details as to why it won't? @river tapir
river tapir
Because OAuth is used to act as a platform to let them give you permissions to access their account and all its data. With Express you are the sole controlling platform for this and you're not supposed/expected to just constantly reconnect the account over and over as a login solution. That's now why it was built and that will lead to issues down the road
neon abyss
Got it, makes sense to me. So in sum the use cases for Express are 1. A really clean onboarding flow and 2. A really clean payments dashboard (if the user goes out of their way to log into it)
river tapir
Yeah that's a good way to look at it