Capture Stripe Connect Direct Charges

[spencern]

The Stripe Connect implementation is currently incomplete.

The stripe/payment/createCharges method is capable of creating direct charges on behalf of another stripe account, but the our stripe capture method does not currently support capturing direct charges.

This ticket is for updating that capture payment method to support capturing payment for charges created by Stripe Connect on behalf of another stripe account (e.g. for a marketplace merchant).

I'm not 100% certain why this doesn't work as is, but my guess would be that we need to pass the merchant stripe_account into the charges/:id/capture call.

I think this is a good time to update the existing Stripe capture method to use the node-stripe lib as well and you should be able to follow the patterns set in the stripe/payment/createCharges method to figure that part out.

Resources and other notes

• https://stripe.com/docs/connect/direct-charges - Stripe Direct Charges docs, note the stripe_account argument which is how we determine which stripe account/shop to create a charge on behalf of.
• https://stripe.com/docs/api#capture_charge - capture_charge docs (note: we're creating direct charges not destination charges, so the destination field does not apply here.
• Here's the Reaction stripe-payments code where we actually hit the stripe API to capture: https://github.com/reactioncommerce/reaction/blob/marketplace/imports/plugins/included/payments-stripe/server/methods/stripeapi.js#L101

[spencern]

Resolved by #2912

[smknstd]

@spencern Do you remember how capturing "on the behalf of another stripe account" works ? Cannot find anything documented here https://stripe.com/docs/api/charges/capture Thanx

[smknstd]

Solved! If it can help anyone, you can use the "Stripe-Account header" technique with every api calls https://stripe.com/docs/connect/authentication#authentication-via-the-stripe-account-header (doc is somehow hard to find)