Hi @luminrabbit
My Stripe Integration course covers all aspects to a setup that would work for this use case.
Essentially the course goes into details the two ways in which payments could be processed. Either as a one time fee or a recurring fee (subscription).
In your use case the Pateons would be able to either provide a one-off donation or subscribe for a monthly donation. The course goes into details for how you can allow your application sellers (the Patreon User) to create subscriptions to sell directly to their ‘subscribers’.
The way it is setup in the course is that the application (Patroen) takes a percentage fee of the subscription charge, which is automatically processed and handle by Stripe every month, so the percentage fee is applied to each monthly payment on the subscription.
If you were to give a one-time donation options the application fee would be applied to that one time charge.
The Patreon User Stripe Account gets the money from the payments, however, automatically the percentage fee applied is transferred to your application’s Stripe Account, and all Stripe processing fees are paid for by the Patreon User Stripe Account.
You can do that if you’d like. Just be aware of the implications
- Your app pays Stripe processing fees
- Your app is liable for any chargebacks and refunds and associated fees/penalties
You can do this no matter which method you’d take. This can be done from within your application, however, Stripe does do this already and ‘why recreate the wheel’ when you can spend more time developing other features for your application.