Use cases
Launch and scale embedded payments and financial services
Build a global payments and financial services business with less overhead and more opportunities for expansion. Companies such as Shopify, MindBody, and DocuSign partner with Stripe to differentiate their platforms and accelerate revenue growth.
Facilitate payments
Get customers set up for payments in minutes, not days
Onboard customers with just a few questions
With Stripe Connect, customers from 35+ countries can onboard to accept payments within your platform and receive payouts in minutes. Stripe collects bank information, and verifies IDs to meet KYC requirements.
Give customers a full-featured dashboard to manage payments
Let customers access the Stripe Dashboard to handle all their payment needs. Or use Stripe’s APIs to build custom payments reporting and refund workflows for your customers directly within your platform.
Unified platform
Support customers with any business model
Give customers access to Stripe’s entire suite of features: our products are designed to work together, making it easy to expand your offerings with minimal engineering investment.
Launch global payments
Help your customers increase revenue by optimizing the checkout experience. Stripe supports 135+ currencies and dozens of global payment methods like Apple Pay, ACH, and SEPA Direct Debit that can help increase conversion by as much as 50%.
Optimize invoices for fast payment
Get your customers paid up to 2 weeks faster by adding online payments within your invoices. You can also optimize recurring invoices by saving card details. Stripe works directly with card networks to update expiring card information.
Add subscriptions and loyalty programs
Give customers the ability to launch subscriptions or memberships, free trials, coupons, and more with Stripe Billing. You can also set up recurring payments and enable smart tools to reduce churn.
Unify online and in-person payments
Let customers accept in-person payments from your platform. With Stripe Terminal, you can customize every part of the point-of-sale experience, including branded card readers.
Differentiate your platform
Offer financial services to accelerate growth and revenue
Just like payments, Stripe’s prebuilt flows and APIs make it easy to launch new financial services on your platform. Start by providing spending cards and flexible financing to customers to help them grow faster.
Some features may not be available in your region yet. We’re working to bring them everywhere as soon as we can.
Extend capital
Help your customers access the funds they need to accelerate growth with fast and flexible financing.
Instant payouts
Give customers the option to deposit earnings into their bank accounts within minutes. Available 24/7 including weekends and holidays.
Issue balance cards
Let customers tap into their account balance to pay vendors quickly and access programmable controls to manage expenses.
Embed financial services
With a single integration, enable your customers to hold funds, pay bills, earn interest, and manage cash flow.
Scale globally
Go global with a single integration
Give customers around the world access to your platform
Let Stripe manage the complexity of certain compliance functions, licensing, and card network rules so you can easily onboard and pay out customers in 50+ countries without needing to establish local entities.
Minimize regulatory and compliance overhead
Payment and payout regulations are constantly changing and vary by country. Stripe can help you manage the complexity of compliance, licensing, and card network rules so you can expand faster and decrease operational overhead. Connect automatically updates to help meet the latest payments compliance requirements—without any changes required to your integration.
Case studies
Mindbody works with Stripe to launch omnichannel payments
Mindbody is a scheduling platform for gyms, spas, and other wellness services. They wanted a partner to help them launch a hybrid online and in-person payment experience for studios.
Challenge
As virtual workouts become the norm for many studios, Mindbody wanted to make it easy for their customers to offer an omnichannel experience through their platform.
Solution
Mindbody worked with Stripe to help studios boost online revenue conversion with virtual classes. They also provided studios a simple way to set up card readers that allows customers to add classes or buy additional products in-person through a single, unified experience.
Products
Stripe’s value is they are a true partner, helping us roadmap our global expansion and work through local challenges. You don’t often see this type of strategic partnership with other payment vendors.
Lightspeed partners with Stripe to unify payments
Lightspeed is a cloud-based point-of-sale software that needed a partner to help them extend payment capabilities for their customers.
Challenge
Lightspeed saw that their customers needed a better way to unify their online and in-person operations without having the work with multiple vendors.
Solution
In three months, Lightspeed was able to launch a fully unified payments solution for customers in the US and Canada. Now, customers can accept online payments as well as in-store payments with their own custom-branded readers.
Products
Jobber works with Stripe to launch financial services
Jobber is a field services software that wanted to help home service professionals on their platforms get paid faster.
Challenge
Jobber wanted to help home service professionals on their platform to grow faster by helping them get paid faster and free up cash flow.
Solution
Jobber partnered with Stripe to enable both online and in-person payments helping their customers get paid in hours instead of weeks. Beyond payments, Jobber also partnered with Stripe to add financial service products including flexible financing and instant payouts to help professionals with cashflow constraints.
Products
Xero partners with Stripe to help customers get paid faster
Xero creates accounting software and wanted to help their customers get paid faster and streamline recurring payments.
Challenge
Businesses using Xero were often spending precious time chasing invoice payments and constrained by cashflow.
Solution
Xero partnered with Stripe to add a “pay now” button within their invoices to support online payments and enabled auto-pay for recurring payments. By adding payments to invoicing, businesses on Xero now get paid up to 14 days faster.
Products
Professional services
Launch embedded payments and financial services with help from Stripe experts
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Accept global payments
Support 135+ currencies and dozens of local payment methods with a single integration.
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