Adds support for authorizers to Person API

What’s new

Adds the authorizer role as a parameter in the relationship field of the Person API.

The Stripe account representative is defined as the person that’s authorized to act as the primary representative of the account. This person provides information about themselves and is designated by the business to provide general information about the account.

To fulfill Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements, Stripe might be required to verify the authority of the representative. If the representative on the Stripe account doesn’t match a registered representative for the business, you can add an authorizer to the account to grant them authority to represent the business.

An authorizer is usually a person that qualifies as a registered representative for the business, but isn’t listed as a representative on the business Stripe account. Stripe might request additional information, such as a company authorization document, that allows the authorizer to transfer authority (to authorize) the representative.

There can only be one authorizer on a Stripe account. The authorizer can’t be the account representative. This role is only available in countries where the authorizer can transfer authority to the representative.

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/accounts/acct_xxxxx/persons \
  -u "
sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc
:" \
  -d first_name=John \
  -d last_name=Doe \
  -d "relationship[authorizer]"=true

Impact

You can use the new authorizer relationship field to create an authorizer for your connected accounts. Use this authorizer to satisfy authority verification requirements on your connected account.

Changes

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