Sample - Stripe API
POST/v1/account_sessions

Create an Account Session

Creates a AccountSession object that includes a single-use token that the platform can use on their front-end to grant client-side API access.

  • RetriesRetries up to 2×, 500ms backoff, 30s timeout.
  • IdempotentThe SDK sends Idempotency-Key, so a retried request is only applied once.

3 body fields
accountstringrequired
The identifier of the account to create an Account Session for.
componentsobjectrequired
Each key of the dictionary represents an embedded component, and each embedded component maps to its configuration (e.g. whether it has been enabled or not).
expandarray<string>optional
Specifies which fields in the response should be expanded.

2 status codes
200Successful response.
accountstringrequired
The ID of the account the AccountSession was created for
client_secretstringrequired
The client secret of this AccountSession. Used on the client to set up secure access to the given `account`. The client secret can be used to provide access to `account` from your frontend. It should not be stored, logged, or exposed to anyone other than the connected account. Make sure that you have TLS enabled on any page that includes the client secret. Refer to our docs to [setup Connect embedded components](https://docs.stripe.com/connect/get-started-connect-embedded-components) and learn about how `client_secret` should be handled.
componentsobjectrequired
expires_atintegerrequired
The timestamp at which this AccountSession will expire.
livemodebooleanrequired
If the object exists in live mode, the value is `true`. If the object exists in test mode, the value is `false`.
objectstringrequired
String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value.
Allowed:account_session
defaultError response.
errorobjectrequired

Error handling

Any other status is an error: Error response.