Splitting subscription payments

The Stripe Connect - Marketplace enables you to split subscription payments between your platform and merchants who are selling goods/services on your platform. For example, if you're running a subscription content marketplace like Substack, the plugin allows your marketplace to take a % of each subscription paid by consumers to newsletter writers.

Video tutorial

The below video tutorial demonstrates how to split a one-off payment (relevant section is from 12:42 to 20:14):

Database Setup

You can see an example of a database setup for a subscription marketplace in the below demo app:

https://bubble.io/page?name=index&id=stripeconnectmarketplace&tab=tabs-3&subtab=Data+Types&type_id=subscription

The fields specific to the subcriptions are 'subscription', 'plan' and 'newsletter'

If you are processing subscription payments in your app, it is recommended you create an additional data type called 'subscription' (or something similar) with the following fields:

Name	Type	Description
cancel at period end?	text	a field that lets you know whether the subscription will be ended after the current period
checkout session id	text	the unique ID Stripe gives to each checkout session
currency	text	the currency of the transaction (recommended to use a 3-digit ISO code to be consistent with Stripe requirements)
customer id	text	the unique Stripe ID associated with each customer
frequency	text	the frequency of the subscription (i.e. is it weekly, monthly or annual)
price	number	the price in cents (or equivalent) of the subscription
product	product	the product the subscription is associated with (please note I use 'newsletter' in place of product in my demo app as it is a substack-style marketplace)
seller account id	text	the unique ID of the seller's Stripe account
subscription status?	text	the status of the subscription
subscription id	text	the unique ID of the Stripe subscription
subscription start	date	the date on which the subscription started
subscription end	date	the end date of the subscription

and another data type called 'plan' (or something similar) with the following fields:

Name	Type	Description
cost	number	the total value of the transaction (in cents, or equivalent)
currency	text	the currency of the transaction (recommended to use a 3-digit ISO code to be consistent with Stripe requirements)
frequency	text	the frequency of the subscription (i.e. is it weekly, monthly or annual)
product	product	the product the subscription is associated with (please note I use 'newsletter' in place of product in my demo app as it is a substack-style marketplace)

Free trials

Add a value to the 'Days for Free Trial' field to allow users to benefit from a free trial before their first payment.

For example, if you set it to ‘30’, You user will be given a 30-day free subscription when they initially subscribe: