#k1cc0-connect-invoices
fickle lava
Hello! Just to clarify, are you trying to invoice customers that have been created on Connect accounts or are you trying to Invoice the Connect accounts themselves?
astral iron
hey, thanks for this! I am trying to invoice the connect accounts themselves
fickle lava
There isn't a way to Invoice connect accounts, but in certain regions and depending on the account types you can create account debits https://stripe.com/docs/connect/account-debits
astral iron
I think that could be a way to charge them though right? Not send an actual invoice
fickle lava
Yup, that would just charge the Connect account, not send an invoice
astral iron
So far we've used stripe connect only to send money to our customers, I suppose it's not possible to just receive money that way. We are using the /invoice endpoint passing the additional stripe_account param
fickle lava
The only way for you to send a connect account an actual Invoice would be for you to create separate Customers representing your connect account
astral iron
Would I be able to collect the payment automatically?
fickle lava
Yes, as long as the Customer had a default payment method (which you'd need to ask your connect accuont for)
astral iron
Ok so I would pull the payment method from the connect account and link it to the invoice generated for that new cus_?
fickle lava
No, you wouldn't be able to pull the payment method from the connect accuont - you'd have to ask them to provide paymetn information and then you'd save it on to your platform account
astral iron
Ah, got it
So by listening to the hook for the new payment method added, store the intent id and link that from then on, do I finally get it?
In this instance stripe connect doesn't have any role does it
fickle lava
Yup! Connect isn't really involved at all (except for the fact that you're just representing a Connect Account as a Customer)
astral iron
Awrite, I think I got it now. Stripe Connect has been fairly confusing to me, I'll try to understand it better
fossil lion
As a developer, it helps to think of Stripe as a "one-way" platform - FROM paying customers TO the Platform or Connected accounts. There is no inherent opposite flow.