Getting started

Cards

Digital wallets

Controls

Spending controls

Real-time authorizations

Fraud protection

Funding

Purchases

Merchant categories

Issuing

An API for businesses to instantly create, manage, and distribute payment cards.

Issuing is currently available in the US and UK. Learn more about availability in Europe.

Get started

Contact sales to get started.

Make funds available in your Issuing balance for future card spend.

Create cardholders and issue virtual or physical cards.

Build a platform

Create separate sub accounts, each with their own balance and cards.

Customize physical cards with a company logo.

Test the integration

Simulate purchases in test mode before going live.

Manage cards

Set spending controls

Set rules on cards and cardholders to control spend.

Perform real-time authorizations

Approve or decline authorization requests in real time.

Add cards to digital wallets

Spend cards with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Samsung Pay.

Handle authorizations

Learn how to handle partial, incremental, and reversal authorizations.

Handle transactions

Learn how to handle refunds and other types of transaction captures.

Dispute transactions

Learn about submitting and tracking disputes.

Issue gift cards

Issue and redeem gift cards for your own store.

Get Issuing cards support

Get support for self-service cards.

Stripe Shell

Test mode

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Welcome to the Stripe Shell!

Stripe Shell is a browser-based shell with the Stripe CLI pre-installed. Login to Stripe
docs and press Control + Backtick on your keyboard to start managing your Stripe resources
in test mode.

- View supported commands: 
- Find webhook events: 
- Listen for webhook events: 
- Call Stripe APIs: stripe [api resource] [operation] (e.g. )

The Stripe Shell is best experienced on desktop.