Terminal

Use Stripe Terminal to accept in-person payments and extend Stripe payments to your point of sale.

Terminal

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Unify your online and offline payments

Design your Terminal integration

Learn about Terminal

Stripe Terminal is available in the following countries:

Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States
Beta Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain and Sweden

You can only collect payments in your local currency with supported card brands. Stripe Terminal offers pre-certified readers as well as Tap to Pay on iPhone, which allows users to accept in-person contactless payments with only a compatible iPhone and the Stripe Terminal SDK. Hardware must be shipped to physical addresses (not PO boxes). If you’re outside the available countries, you can request an invite to test Terminal.

Explore Terminal

Learn about Stripe Terminal through example use cases and the architecture of an integration.

Try the example app

Understand interactions between Terminal SDKs and readers, and your backend and point of sale application.

Build a starter integration

Build a starter integration with our code-based tour that includes downloadable files so you can follow along.

Design your integration

Choose your integration and reader

Discover the integration and reader combination that works best for your in-person payments experience.

Integrate your SDK and reader

Learn about the various steps you need to follow to integrate your SDK and reader combination.

Test your integration

Effectively test your Terminal integration and pressure test it against a variety of edge cases.

Platforms with in-person payments

Integrate Stripe Terminal with your Connect platform

Enable in-person payments for your platform

In-person fundamentals

Save cards at the point of sale

Save cards to initiate a subscription, attach payment details to a customer’s online account, or defer payment.

Cancel or refund payments

Understand the two-step authorization and capture process and how to perform a cancellation or refund.

Display cart details

Dynamically update a smart reader’s screen with individual items in the transaction, along with total price.

Send prebuilt or custom receipts

Provide your customers with receipts that meet card network rules and local regulatory requirements.