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This is pretty cool (I'm working on an ecommerce app now). What I'm not clear on is this:

Can apps selling relay products get a cut of the sale?

What incentive is there for a "product discovery app" (or whatever) to sell other products? Can they define some sort of fee %?

UPDATE: Chatted with Stripe on IRC and they clarified that there's currently no way to share sales revenue or let apps define a % commission.

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(Stripe Engineer working on Relay here)

Indeed there is no way to do so at the moment. But we have that on our radar and we'd like to construct something that makes sense for apps and sellers.

Some questions related to that: How would you see it working? Isn't ads the new affiliation in the app world?

Its pretty common for Stripe Connect integrations to charge an application fee. With Relay, Stripe would allow some apps that use connect to "move" their products database from their own database to Stripe. Also it allows merchants to sell on more platforms. It just becomes "You can use Relay and Stripe to sell on our platform, however we'll take a 1% transaction fee"

Following in up on this we just rolled out `application_fee` on the Order Pay endpoint (https://stripe.com/docs/api#pay_order).

It'll behave as expected if you're familiar with the connect `application_fee`.

Thanks for the feedback and hope you'll make good use of it. Let us know how we can help with anything help!

So this confirms the approach that we have in mind: the ability to setup a fee at order creation as it is the case in Connect (per charge there). Very :+1: on this.

Following in up on this we just rolled out `application_fee` on the Order Pay endpoint (https://stripe.com/docs/api#pay_order).

It'll behave as expected if you're familiar with the connect `application_fee`.

Yeah, basically what matthewarkin said. You could theoretically do it either way: (a) an app could say "Sell your product with us and we'll take 2%" or a seller can say (b) "I'm willing to give 1% of GMV to apps who list our products"

I believe Two Tap can work with existing affiliate links.

I was looking for this in the API but couldn't find it.

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