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With the new "Squarespace Payments" can permissions for "Admin" and "Payment Processor" be separate as they are with Stripe and PayPal

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I am a member of a civic club and I am the Admin for that club's Squarespace Website. We have done a lot with SqSp Commerce in support of a fund raiser for the last 4-5 years. The club's treasurer created a Stripe account back in the beginning and maintains (user/pswd/access) to the Stripe account. I've given the treasurer access to our SqSp website and the treasurer logged in and used the SqSp "Payment Processor" functions to connect the club's Stripe account to the website. This has provided us a clear line of separation between my responsibility for the website, store, products, etc and the Treasurer's responsibility for custody of our funds by maintaining access to the Stripe account. I just maintain a store which can execute payments and refunds to a Stripe account maintained separately by the Treasurer.

I've read up on the new "Squarespace Payments" functions and I expect we'll migrate over to it in the near future. However, I'm concerned that we may no longer be able to keep this "separation of responsibilities" between webmaster and treasurer. I'd normally test things like this but can't test this myself. I've searched the Circle Forum for to see if this issue is discussed but didn't find anything.

The TL;DR version of my question: Is there a way to keep me (webmaster) from diverting payments/refunds from the club's bank account (treasurer) to my own personal bank account?

Wow, as I typed that question I realized I have that power already. While I don't have the club's Stripe account's user/pswd, I could just disconnect the club's account, create my own Stripe account (already got one for other purposes) and divert all the clubs transactions to my personal bank account.

So I should modify my question here to something like: Has anybody else run into this separation of powers issue/question and have thoughts on the topic. Does this call for a new SqSp "Financial" Permission for linking to Bank Accounts? How would that even work? Has this already been thought about?

Thanks for any/all feedback. 

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