#jakenicolaides-payouts
patent rover
I am trying to use stripe to pay my customers but I havent taken payment from them through stripe - i just want to use stripe to pay them
I want to pay them without them ever having paid me or having been paid by anyone else
sudden tide
What funds are you using to pay them then?
patent rover
my own funds
sudden tide
That's not really how this works. Payouts facilitate moving funds from an accumulated Stripe balance (generally from payments) to an external account (bank, debit card) for the Stripe account
hasty lance
@sudden tide the issue is that Topups are US-only (https://stripe.com/docs/connect/top-ups)
that's the real issue here!
you can operate by topping up your platform balance and then transferring out to connected accounts, but Topups are US-only today
patent rover
That's not really how this works. Payouts facilitate moving funds from an accumu...
i understand that it is unconventionl
hasty lance
the docs are quite confusing unfortuantely
sudden tide
AH, ok that makes more sense
patent rover
do you know if that feature is coming to the UK?
hasty lance
I think actually they are availble in the UK already
when I look internally it launched in November but it seems like we forgot to update a lot of the docs
patent rover
thats amazing news!
patent rover
do you think I can use the api in the way i've described then?
So I onboard my customers onto stripe and then pay them whenever I need to.
that is the way I am looking to use Stripe
hasty lance
as far as I know it's technically possible , should be the same flow as the guide you linked
patent rover
Thanks for looking into that for me! I really appreciate it