#gorenjai-coupons
fallow mountain
👋 happy to help
just a few questions so I could answer you better
what kind of Connect Accounts do you have? are you using Direct or Destination Charges?
fallow mountain
since you're doing direct charges you can't apply coupons created on the Platform's Account
vocal oracle
that's what i figured!
Just adding my colleague to this thread too @sweet hamlet
how could we possibly fund this model then @fallow mountain via top-ups ?
fallow mountain
I don't have an answer for you from the top of my head, could you just give me a couple of minutes so i could think this through?
vocal oracle
Go for it sir. I'm off to grab some dinner (seoul timezone) but will respond as/when possible over the next few hours. Thank you so much!
next perch
if you're a US platform then topups are an option yes
ultimately though I don't think this feature makes much sense and is pretty complex.
Normal model:
You have a product that costs $100.
You do a Direct Charge(the connected merchant charges the customer).
You take a fee of $10, the connected account keeps $90, minus Stripe fees.
In your model, I'm a bit lost:
You have a product that costs $100.
You do a Direct Charge(the connected merchant charges the customer).
There's a discount of some kind(say 20%), so the customer pays $80.
What happens then? Do you take your fee of $10, so the connected account nets $70? Or something else
the connected account can not really net more than the amount they actually charge($80) since there's no money for that, unless you separately transfer funds to them.
next perch
if you're a US platform then topups are an option yes
oh yeah, they're available in the UK too, I keep forgetting that since the docs for it are not properly exposed unfortunately. https://stripe.com/docs/connect/top-ups/uk
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shadow marsh
Hi @vocal oracle , we can continue the thread here
vocal oracle
Thank you @shadow marsh Much appreciated!
Just following on from what @next perch mentioned, it looks like under the current Stripe infrastructure, this is a complicated model to implement ?
Just to jump back to the high level once again - we are a marketplace that wants our sellers to be the merchant of record - hence why we are on the Direct charging model since we'd like the sellers to be liable for stripe fees and product facilitation. However, what we wanted to do was to offer promotions to customers on our marketplace to encourage more sales but at no expense to sellers. That's sorta the logic behind this "complex" model.
Is there any documentation or a few lines (pseudo code) even that you could offer around how this model can be serviced ? I'm waiting to hear back from the team re: how our commissions will change as per @next perch 's answer. So as soon as I have it (should be in a few hours), i'll post back.
vocal oracle
the connected account can not really net more than the amount they actually char...
Also to answer this question, yes it looks like we'll have to manually transfer funds to the seller. I take it this API is the way to go ? https://stripe.com/docs/api/transfers
Sorry, final question from me. It looks like we won't be able to use the stripe coupon management dashboard right ? Since we are direct charging ? Any coupon logic we do will have to be controlled by us using our own backend ?
shadow marsh
In your case, the discount is given by the platform and the seller is expected to receive the non-discount amount. You can transfer the discounted amount to seller with transfers API: https://stripe.com/docs/api/transfers
In the event that the platform doesn't have sufficient funds, you can use top up as suggested earlier: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/top-ups/uk