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Balanced API specification.
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Add-ons for merchant accounts #628

Open peterkeen opened 10 years ago

peterkeen commented 10 years ago

Stripe Connect offers an appealing mix of features for building applications on top of merchant accounts. It brings together automatic webhooks and application-specific user-revokable keys at either read or read/write levels, which means I can build, say, a receipt emailing service with read-only access or a complete shopping card system with read-write.

Balanced currently offers some of this, but to connect to a user's Balanced account seems to require some hoop-jumping. Packaging it up into an OAuth flow would be very helpful for add-on developers.

jkwade commented 10 years ago

Hey @peterkeen I'd love to see something like this on top of Balanced, especially for read-only applications.

One thing we need to deal with is the design/product paradigm at Balanced that we're completely invisible to end users. But perhaps that's a constraint that can be relaxed given the fact the end user won't be a seller, but another app developer.