#Vish-Custom-Direct
cloud stone
Ok...can you explain any other changes that I might need to make to switch to Standard Accounts. My reasoning for Custom Accounts was that our clients are not tech friendly and they will find the Stripe platform very intimidating. We wanted them to administer their Stripe profile through our portal but the one thing that we cannot implement is Stripe Tax. That is why we are thinking of switching to Standard Accounts
cloud stone
Any insights?
worthy nova
Sorry, missed the follow up. Server is busy. Looking!
You mostly just need to onboard the accounts as Standard accounts via the onboarding flow.
There isn't much that needs to change unless you want to handover more control to your Connected Accounts
cloud stone
No worries. Thanks for the response. Regarding the onboarding flow, from what I have seen till now, it seems like they need to first create a Stripe account on their own and then come to our portal and connect it(This will be done through APIs). Am I correct in this understanding? In custom, they could just create the account using our portal.
worthy nova
It should be the same flow here for Custom or Standard. Either way you create the account as the platform, then you redirect the user to the Hosted Onboarding Flow.
It is up to you for how much info you provide up front about the Connected Account in order to pre-fill the Hosted Onboarding Form.
But the flow isn't different — you were still creating the Custom Account
cloud stone
This is the page with Standard Account
In this case, they have to have a Stripe account beforehand
Right?
worthy nova
Nope. If they enter an email associated with an account they alreaddy have then we will pre-fill info based on that account. Otherwise, we will create a new account with the email.
cloud stone
Got it thanks