Chapter 12Third-Party Sales with Stripe Connect
So far we’ve had a straightforward relationship with customers of the Snow Globe Theater: they are the buyers and we are the seller. They give us money in exchange for our services.
However, this relationship could become more complex. For example, we could build a storefront that allows third-party vendors to show their wares, like Etsy. In that case, the central application provides the shopping cart experience, but money is transferred to the provider of the good. A service provider like Uber behaves similarly: the central application provides the service, but the money received is split between the service and the driver. We could even build our own generic website or shopping cart tool, in ...
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