#jchannon-connect-request
vocal remnant
Hello 👋
Sure thing! can you share the link to the doc you're looking at so that I'm on the same page? 🙂
vocal remnant
Gotcha. Thanks and can you tell me a little bit about how ideal funds flow look like?
A connected account is an account that you create for each user that receives money on your platform.
Such as, if I sign up to be an uber driver
Uber is the platfrom
My driver profile is the connected account
the docs that you've linked are talking about making requests on behalf of the connected account
lone oriole
we have a system that integrates with stripe. users will have an ios/andriod app to authenticate them to charge their car, information about electric used etc will be sent to this system. they will be charged for electric used, the system will create invoices etc inside it but then send that same info into stripe
vocal remnant
The first link talks about the generic process behind it
The second link talks about making the request using .NET library
https://github.com/stripe/stripe-dotnet#per-request-configuration
lone oriole
we would like to use the stripe api to get all the invoices for the drivers
vocal remnant
Gotcha. Is you system going to pay these drivers at all?
lone oriole
pay no, we might credit them though
vocal remnant
Gotcha. So your integration only accepts the payments. doesn't pay it out to the users.
Okay you're looking at the wrong docs as those are for Stripe connect 🙂
You don't need Stripe connect since you're not doing multiparty payments
lone oriole
multiparty payments?
vocal remnant
Yeah platforms like uber, lyft, instacart use that system where more than one entity (company themselves, drivers, stores/restaurants) will receive funds on one transaction
https://stripe.com/docs/connect
vocal remnant
Umm what are you trying to integrate exactly? Are you just getting started with accepting the payments?
lone oriole
the 3rd party system will integrate into our stripe account sending invoice data, customer data etc but we're just looking at the stripe api to get that invoice data whilst the 3rd party system may have the data we want, we also want to see if we can get the invoice data via the stripe api
vocal remnant
Gotcha. You likely want to start here then
https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing
The API reference should have examples for various languages, including .NET
lone oriole
cool, thanks for the help
interestingly that api reference example results in an error 🙂
vocal remnant
huh definitely interesting
what's the error?
lone oriole
"no such invoice"
vocal remnant
ah, you're likely using the example invoice ID that might not exist on your stripe account
lone oriole
ah ok
thought it was test data the api magically returned 🙂
if the account was in test mode
vocal remnant
It does for the API keys but for actual objects, I have ran in to similar issues in the past
lone oriole
how do you mean sorry