{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "diagram_type": "sequence",
  "meta": {
    "title": "Northline Coffee — One DTC Order to the Books (2026-07)",
    "output": "northline-order-path.html",
    "viewBox": [
      820,
      760
    ],
    "animation": "trace",
    "quality_profile": "showcase",
    "views": [
      {
        "id": "checkout-to-charge",
        "label": "Checkout to charge",
        "focus": [
          "customer",
          "shopify",
          "stripe"
        ],
        "note": "The order is created in Shopify and the card is captured by Stripe. Shopify owns the order; Stripe owns the charge and its fee."
      },
      {
        "id": "payout-to-bank",
        "label": "Payout to bank",
        "focus": [
          "stripe",
          "chase"
        ],
        "note": "Stripe batches the charge into a payout net of fees. Cash is only real once Chase 1002 shows the deposit."
      },
      {
        "id": "books-catch-up",
        "label": "What the books record",
        "focus": [
          "shopify",
          "stripe",
          "chase",
          "quickbooks"
        ],
        "note": "QuickBooks receives the sales receipt, the fee, and the deposit as three facts and matches them. Nothing is revenue until it lands here."
      }
    ]
  },
  "participants": [
    {
      "id": "customer",
      "type": "external",
      "label": "DTC customer",
      "sublabel": "web checkout"
    },
    {
      "id": "shopify",
      "type": "frontend",
      "label": "Shopify",
      "sublabel": "orders SoT",
      "brand": "shopify"
    },
    {
      "id": "stripe",
      "type": "backend",
      "label": "Stripe",
      "sublabel": "charges · fees",
      "brand": "stripe"
    },
    {
      "id": "chase",
      "type": "database",
      "label": "Chase 1002",
      "sublabel": "cash SoT"
    },
    {
      "id": "quickbooks",
      "type": "database",
      "label": "QuickBooks",
      "sublabel": "books SoT"
    }
  ],
  "segments": [
    {
      "from": 150,
      "to": 330,
      "label": "Order + charge"
    },
    {
      "from": 350,
      "to": 490,
      "label": "Payout (T+2)"
    },
    {
      "from": 510,
      "to": 680,
      "label": "Books catch up"
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "place-order",
      "from": "customer",
      "to": "shopify",
      "y": 185,
      "label": "place order",
      "variant": "emphasis"
    },
    {
      "id": "capture-card",
      "from": "shopify",
      "to": "stripe",
      "y": 228,
      "label": "capture card",
      "variant": "emphasis"
    },
    {
      "id": "charge-ok",
      "from": "stripe",
      "to": "shopify",
      "y": 268,
      "label": "charge succeeded (fee known)",
      "variant": "return"
    },
    {
      "id": "order-confirmed",
      "from": "shopify",
      "to": "customer",
      "y": 308,
      "label": "order confirmed",
      "variant": "return"
    },
    {
      "id": "payout",
      "from": "stripe",
      "to": "chase",
      "y": 390,
      "label": "payout, net of fees",
      "variant": "emphasis"
    },
    {
      "id": "deposit-posted",
      "from": "chase",
      "to": "stripe",
      "y": 440,
      "label": "deposit posted",
      "variant": "return"
    },
    {
      "id": "sales-receipt",
      "from": "shopify",
      "to": "quickbooks",
      "y": 545,
      "label": "sales receipt + tax collected",
      "variant": "dashed"
    },
    {
      "id": "fee-entry",
      "from": "stripe",
      "to": "quickbooks",
      "y": 590,
      "label": "processing fee",
      "variant": "dashed"
    },
    {
      "id": "bank-feed",
      "from": "chase",
      "to": "quickbooks",
      "y": 635,
      "label": "bank feed: deposit",
      "variant": "default"
    },
    {
      "id": "match",
      "from": "quickbooks",
      "to": "chase",
      "y": 672,
      "label": "matched: receipt − fee = deposit",
      "variant": "return"
    }
  ],
  "activations": [
    {
      "participant": "shopify",
      "from": 180,
      "to": 312,
      "type": "frontend"
    },
    {
      "participant": "stripe",
      "from": 223,
      "to": 272,
      "type": "backend"
    },
    {
      "participant": "stripe",
      "from": 385,
      "to": 445,
      "type": "backend"
    },
    {
      "participant": "chase",
      "from": 385,
      "to": 445,
      "type": "database"
    },
    {
      "participant": "quickbooks",
      "from": 540,
      "to": 678,
      "type": "database"
    }
  ],
  "cards": [
    {
      "dot": "emerald",
      "title": "One order, three facts",
      "items": [
        "Shopify: the order, the customer, the tax collected",
        "Stripe: the charge and its fee",
        "Chase 1002: the net deposit — the only cash fact"
      ]
    },
    {
      "dot": "amber",
      "title": "Guardrails",
      "items": [
        "A DTC checkout is a sales receipt; no invoice and no A/R",
        "The fee gap is expected, not a break: receipt − fee = deposit",
        "No amounts drawn — none were supplied for this order"
      ]
    },
    {
      "dot": "cyan",
      "title": "Timing",
      "items": [
        "Charge and order happen at checkout",
        "Payout reaches Chase on Stripe's T+2 schedule",
        "Books match after the bank feed, not at checkout"
      ]
    }
  ]
}