#sinjon-account-countries
turbid ember
I believe you'd need a separate account (especially ifyou want to use your Canada tax ID)
proper sandal
If I create a new account is there any way to connect it to our existing account? Basically are there any guidelines or tips for using more than one Stripe account at a time?
turbid ember
It depends on what you mean by "connect" - what are you hoping to gain from the connection? Do you need to be sharing resources/customers?
proper sandal
Perhaps a better question - where can I find documentation for "creating a Connect platform"? I am interested in the listed benefits here https://stripe.com/docs/multiple-accounts
twilit abyss
Have you already seen the connect section of our docs? https://stripe.com/docs/connect
There isn't one doc on "creating a Connect platform" but we do have a lot of good docs that lay out the decisions you will need to make and how to impliment them
On top of the docs in the "Get Started" section, the "Choose your account type" is also a good overview of what kind of account you might need based on the functionality that you need https://stripe.com/docs/connect/accounts
proper sandal
I see, so the idea is to set up our new Canadian business entity as a "Connected account" via Stripe Connect, almost like a subsidiary. Is there any downside to doing this instead of having two standard Stripe accounts in parallel?
twilit abyss
Nothing I can immediately think of, there isn't so much a "downside" as Connect is more complex because you have extra behavior to consider
proper sandal
Got it, and do you know how pricing works for that? With a standard account we'd have to get an entirely new plan for Canada https://stripe.com/en-ca/pricing. Not sure how that works with accounts created through Stripe Connect
twilit abyss
I am not well versed on our connect pricing but you can ask our support team and they will be able to speak to that https://support.stripe.com/?contact=true
proper sandal
Ok no worries, thanks for the help!
Actually one last technical question:
if we have multiple standard accounts is there any way to connect them to the same API keys we already use?
twilit abyss
If you connect the accounts to your platform, we have an API parameter that will allow you to make calls for the Connected accounts using your platform account's key https://stripe.com/docs/api/connected_accounts
proper sandal
got it, but not possible with 2 standard accounts in parallel
twilit abyss
Correct, that would only work with Connect
proper sandal
ok great thanks!