#BeardMan-billing-country
timid flame
Hello! You can't pay out a Connected Account in a currency that that country doesn't support.
The currency will always be automatically converted to their settlement currency.
It isn't possible to payout a South African Account in USD.
dusty sequoia
Indeed. Does Stripe offer some facility for currency conversion? Use case: account X has $5 in their account rather than the converted $4.9862... instead? (decimal indicates the conversion issue I'm trying to avoid)
timid flame
Unfortunately FX is one of the most challenging pieces of the API and something we are still working on improving. There is no conversion API at the moment.
dusty sequoia
My best bet is for manual "book-keeping" in displaying the supposed $X amounts to users?
Well, seems like the best way for now (unless you've heard of an alternative)
Thanks for the assist once again
timid flame
Yeah, I know this isn't great at the moment but it is the best way to handle it for now.
timid flame
You said: "Hi. I'm making use of webhooks and would like to use https://stripe.com/docs/api/balance_transactions as a reporting mechanism for account balances rather than simply balance.available webhook event. Do BalanceTransaction webhooks exist or is it planned?"
dusty sequoia
these are supported webhooks: https://stripe.com/docs/api/events/types many of which I use already, but balance transactions would make things a bit easier tbh
timid flame
Those webhooks themselves don't exist... you would listen to other events as you noted and grab the balance transaction. Mostly you can use balance.available here instead but it won't be as common as you likely want.