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Right, so let's say I run a marketplace for video games and such. Back in the day, we used PayPal MassPay to send payments to our sellers. That required the sellers to have PayPal accounts to sell on our platform, which almost all of them had already. Seems like for Stripe Connect to work, our sellers would have to create Stripe accounts.

My understanding until now was that only developers of websites would have a need for a Stripe account, and if I merely purchased something via CC on a Stripe-enabled website, I did not have a Stripe account. So as a marketplace, I have to encourage/demand that my sellers create an account with a third party that they haven't heard of before.

Given that I would want to use Stripe if I were building Dawdle from scratch again, is there a way to have them create a Stripe account without them knowing they're creating a Stripe account?



Ah -- so, users can create Stripe accounts during the OAuth flow.

Check out https://stripe.com/docs/connect#payments-flow, for example. A logged-in user will see the page on the left, while a new user will see the page on the right.

That make sense?


Yup, gotcha - I'd want to customize that page on the right, although maybe that's not possible. (I already know the level of transactions for my accounts on average, but perhaps you need that data for underwriting?)


We let you pre-fill certain information (for your user's convenience): https://stripe.com/docs/connect/reference#get-authorize-requ...




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