How to make a payment Intent to charge a connected account in Stripe

Question

I would like to create a Stripe PaymentIntent with a direct charge to a connected account

Here is what I wrote

stripe.paymentIntents.create(
  {
    amount: 2000,
    currency: 'gbp',
    payment_method: 'pm_xxxx',
  }, {
    stripe_account: 'acct_1F2xxxxxxxxxx'
  },
  function(err, paymentIntent) {
    // asynchronously called
    // do something here
  }
);

What am I doing wrong??

The following code (without the connected account) works fine

stripe.paymentIntents.create(
  {
    amount: 2000,
    currency: 'gbp',
    payment_method: 'pm_xxxx',
  },
  function(err, paymentIntent) {
    // asynchronously called
    // do something here
  }
);

I suspect that is culprit because the console error says something about PaymentMethod....

EDIT: The code is correct and I found out that the issue is with Stripe because they requires some sort of further authentication. From Stripe documentation

If you opt for direct charges, you will need to make sure that the connected account is onboarded on the payment method you intend to use. Direct charges require creating PaymentMethods on connected accounts....

If you’re creating PaymentMethods from the server, you can make use of authentication using the Stripe-Account header with any of our supported libraries.

I will work on it and see how to do it

Answer 1

I have found this https://medium.com/flutter-community/build-a-marketplace-in-your-flutter-app-and-accept-payments-using-stripe-and-firebase-72f3f7228625 which describes how to charge a connected account.

Basically you need to clone your payment methods in the server and then create your payment intent

Stripe docs for cloning payment methods: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/cloning-saved-payment-methods