#nerder-fee
tawdry blaze
hi there! can you clarify what 'getting' the fees would mean in that scenario, where does the money flow from and to?
coarse root
I'll explain the whole scenario real quick, our app offer Stripe integration for our clients (gyms) which have their account connected to ours. We can manage gym memberships for them, and we get a fee out of it when they pay via the app. We would like to offer "paid in cash subscriptions" so that even if the membership is paid out of band, we can still offer them some features such as session counting.
Now in order to complete we would like to be able to get some fees for this integration, either a fixed amount or a percentage based on the invoice amount (even if paid out of band)
tawdry blaze
hmm, makes sense! It's not really possible in any clean way. To me the options are:
- account debits, you can debit the connected account to take funds directly from them. Note they have an additional Stripe fee and also don't work on Standard accounts https://stripe.com/docs/connect/account-debits
- set up your logic so you take larger application_fee_amount on actual Stripe-processed payments so that you "make up" the extra amount that way over time
- collect a payment method from the connected account holder and charge that as a regular customer on your platform for the fees
coarse root
Now please consider that i've tested already with the application_fee_percent but since there is no actual payment to be made, this is get ignored
Ok i see, because also the application_fee_amount is not available?
since there is no payment intent here?
tawdry blaze
if there's no actual payment happening on Stripe then you can't use application_fee_amount yes
since where would the money come from? :d we can't just give your platform the amount and let you pay that out if no money came into Stripe by charging the customer
coarse root
Yeah make sense is like if Stripe can't get the any fee, we can get any either eheh
yes makes total sense, I can't even eventually keep count of how many cash subscriptions a certain connect account has, and then bill them at the end of the month?
like for instance a connected account has 10 cash sub at 1$ each, i can invoice them 10$ at the end of the month?