I have this:
const paymentMethod = await stripe.paymentMethods.create({
type: 'card',
card: {
number: '4242424242424242',
exp_month: 1,
exp_year: 2024,
cvc: '123',
},
});
console.log(paymentMethod.id)
const customer = await stripe.customers.create({
payment_method: paymentMethod.id,
});
what this does is creates a payment method and links it to the customer in which i create on the spot. However, I need to create the customer for a stripeAccount, instead of my own. I am also programmatically creating stripe accounts for my merchants, so now I want to link the customer i create to the specific merchant.
here's what I found you can do for paymentIntents, that I thought you may be able to do for stripe accounts, but it doesn't seem so:
const paymentIntent = await stripe.paymentIntents.create({
amount: 2000,
currency: 'usd',
customer: customerid
}, {
stripeAccount: 'myaccount_id',
});
so how can i use stripeAccount within creation of customer?
You can use stripeAccount for any API request, it works the same way on all of them. There's an example directly in Stripe's documentation:
https://stripe.com/docs/connect/authentication#stripe-account-header
const customer = await stripe.customers.create(
{email: 'person@example.edu'},
{stripeAccount: '{{CONNECTED_STRIPE_ACCOUNT_ID}}'}
);
As an aside, note also your integration seems a little wrong — you should never be calling stripe.paymentMethods.create with raw card details like that unless you want large PCI compliance headache(https://stripe.com/docs/security/guide#validating-pci-compliance under "API Direct"). You should use Stripe's frontends like Elements/Checkout.