How to take application fee on invoice sent on connected account's behalf

Question

I am trying to take an application fee on a stripe invoice that I send on behalf of a connected stripe standard account. However, I cannot figure out how to create the invoice either A) on the stripe standard account, then take a fee from it B) create the invoice on my platform account and use the application fee to get paid.

The closest documentation I can find is https://stripe.com/docs/connect/subscriptions#invoices. My code below returns this error "No such invoice: in_1E3c6TIMPzVAHwIq4ndgMsBV".

$item=\Stripe\InvoiceItem::create([
    "customer" => "cus_ETsE8pqOpNnmdB",
    "amount" => 2500,
    "currency" => "usd",
    "description" => "One-time setup fee"
]);
$newInvoice=\Stripe\Invoice::create([
    "customer" => "cus_ETsE8pqOpNnmdB",
]);
$invoice = \Stripe\Invoice::retrieve(
    $newInvoice->id,
    ["stripe_account" => "acct_1AtpdCAO1KumKYA2"]
);
$invoice->application_fee = 100; // amount in cents
$invoice->save();

Expected results are sending an invoice branded that is branded to the connected standard account, and when it is paid, my platform account receives the fee.

Since you are using connect and creating Invoice on behalf of the Connected Account, you will need to make use of the Stripe Account header (["stripe_account" => "{CONNECTED_STRIPE_ACCOUNT_ID}"]) and use cus_xx in the connected account. In this case, you will be able to set the application_fee — wsw
@wsw That did it! If you add as an answer I'll accept it. For anyone looking, here is the code to make it work: $item=\Stripe\InvoiceItem::create([ "customer" => "cus_EWqTMbhPa537vV", "amount" => 2500],["stripe_account" => "acct_1AtpdCAO1KumKYA2"]); $newInvoice=\Stripe\Invoice::create([ "customer" => "cus_EWqTMbhPa537vV", ],["stripe_account" => "acct_1AtpdCAO1KumKYA2"]); $invoice = \Stripe\Invoice::retrieve( $newInvoice->id, ["stripe_account" => "acct_1AtpdCAO1KumKYA2"] ); $invoice->application_fee = 100; // amount in cents $invoice->save(); — Stein Christensen

wsw wsw · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-15T11:52:28

Thanks Stein,

For anyone looking, here is the code to make it work:

$item = \Stripe\InvoiceItem::create(["customer" => "cus_EWqTMbhPa537vV", "amount" => 2500], ["stripe_account" => "acct_1AtpdCAO1KumKYA2"]);
$newInvoice = \Stripe\Invoice::create(["customer" => "cus_EWqTMbhPa537vV"], ["stripe_account" => "acct_1AtpdCAO1KumKYA2"]);
$invoice = \Stripe\Invoice::retrieve($newInvoice->id, ["stripe_account" => "acct_1AtpdCAO1KumKYA2"]);
$invoice->application_fee = 100; // amount in cents 
$invoice->save();

How to take application fee on invoice sent on connected account's behalf

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