Add-ons for merchant accounts

[peterkeen]

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]

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.