What's involved in switching our "stripe platform account"?

[jfly]

See jfly's understanding of how stripe connect works for some details on how we currently use stripe.

Someday we may want to switch the stripe account associated with the WCA website. My concern about switching accounts is that I don't know what it will do to the connected stripe accounts on our website. If switching the platform account would break all of them, then I think we have two options:

1. Just do it, and try to coordinate with all upcoming competitions using stripe to let them know that they'll have to reconnect their accounts before payments work.
2. Add support for multiple stripe accounts so we can continue to support existing competitions with Luis's account, but only allow use of the new account for new competitions.

1. is probably pretty easy for the software team, but will be a big communication/coordination hassle.
2. feels better to me, but will be an unknown amount of software work, and we don't have anyone available to work on that right now.

[jfly]

@Mollerz says:

Is it possible we can add a new account as the platform account so both are used at the same time? Any new competition link to the new platform account and then when the last account connected to Luis' account has the competition completed then we can remove that. However this is likely going to mean that refunds won't be able to be issued through the website for said competitions.

I think this is solution 2) I described above. It feels like the most "obviously correct" solution, but it is some amount of software work to do.

[AlbertoPdRF]

Maybe we should try to be pragmatic here and go with 1, as this is likely just a one-time thing?

[cubewhiz]

I also prefer 1 if we can come up with a plan to minimize the disaster.