It takes a unified, interoperable suite of products to build economic infrastructure for the internet. As we work toward that goal, we spotlight what we’ve learned and updated across our payments, financial services, and business operations products.
One of the biggest challenges global businesses face is how to build a frictionless and relevant checkout experience without adding significant development work. Today, we’re adding a set of improvements to Stripe Elements—and introducing the new Address Element—to help you adapt to customer preferences without adding costly development cycles.
Introducing an embeddable and customizable fiat-to-crypto onramp. Let customers buy crypto within your Web3 app with one click. Tailor the onramp to match your brand, and we’ll take care of the rest: KYC, fraud, and disputes.
We’re continuously working on improving Terminal to help businesses better serve their customers, and we’re excited to share the latest updates that enable our users to reach more customers globally, start accepting in-person payments faster, and deliver a frictionless checkout experience for more use cases.
Bank transfers have been at the core of global payments since Western Union added money transfers to its telegram services in 1871, giving individuals the ability to move money across distances via an electronic communication network for the first time.
Over 10,000 software platforms, marketplaces, and enterprises use Stripe Connect to power embedded payments for more than six million businesses. We look back at Connect’s role in the evolution of software and look ahead to the future of embedded finance.
Creators, freelancers, sellers, and solopreneurs are building and creating all over the world. While it’s easier than ever before to find customers and fans, getting paid can still be difficult, especially outside of major markets.
Since we launched in Japan five years ago, our domestic and international users have told us that they want to pursue deeper, more natural relationships with their Japanese customers. Our Japan-based engineering teams have made major progress in unlocking larger portions of the economy for our users, and today we’re announcing support for Konbini payments and bank transfers (known locally as Furikomi) on Stripe.
Payment Links lets you create a payment page that you can share with your customers in just a few clicks—no code required. More than 100,000 businesses in 40+ countries have used Payment Links to launch their business, sell through new channels, and experiment with pricing.
Stripe Radar is a machine-learning-based fraud detection solution fully integrated with the Stripe platform. We recently shipped a series of improvements to Radar to help businesses better prevent fraud and more efficiently manage fraud workflows. Read on for the highlights, or log in to your Stripe Dashboard to see Radar in action.
Stripe Tax is one of our most requested products by users to date. This post covers how we built a tax engine to help users determine their customers’ locations, calculate the right tax at checkout, and speed up filing and remittance.
Today we're adding support for China UnionPay in the UK and the European Union, making it even easier for global businesses to sell to Chinese buyers. With this launch, Stripe users in North America, Europe, and most of Asia can now support the top three ways Chinese buyers want to pay: UnionPay, Alipay, and WeChat Pay, which collectively account for 85% of online purchases by Chinese consumers.
Today, we're introducing the Payment Element, an embeddable UI component for your checkout flow that supports 18 payment methods with a single integration. Optimize conversion without sacrificing customization by allowing your customers to pay how they want to pay—at a fraction of the engineering lift.
Today, we're launching the Stripe extension for Visual Studio Code, one of the most popular integrated developer environments.
With the VS Code extension, you can stream logs and webhook events from the Stripe API to your local development machine, quickly access the API reference by hovering over resource methods, easily get started with one of Stripe’s sample apps, and much more.
Strong Customer Authentication requirements are now being fully enforced in 28 of 31 European countries. Learn more about the trends we’ve seen so far and how Stripe can help you navigate these changes.
Over the past few months, we’ve added several new features to Stripe Invoicing to help any business get paid faster and streamline their collection workflows.
Stripe businesses around the world can accept payments from more European buyers in minutes. No matter where you are in the world, there’s now no foreign incorporation, no new bank accounts, and no manual activation steps to get started with Bancontact, EPS, giropay, iDEAL, Przelewy24, and Sofort.
The Stripe Dashboard is the hub for millions of businesses to take action. We’ve launched dozens of new features in the Dashboard to improve common workflows such as managing subscriptions, issuing refunds, sending invoices, and keeping track of customers.
Checkout now offers a seamless purchase experience with out-of-the-box support for mobile wallets and address auto-complete, helps scale your business globally with over 25 languages and 10 international payment methods, and lets you customize payments for your business with support for tax rates, promo codes, brand configuration tools, and more.
Stripe Billing is already the fastest way for businesses to set up subscriptions or invoices. The customer portal makes it even easier to create a great experience for your customers while minimizing engineering investment.
Stripe Billing is designed to be the fastest way for ambitious businesses to set up recurring subscriptions or one-off invoices. Companies such as Slack, The Atlantic, Notion, and Postmates use Billing so they can focus their engineering resources on their core business instead of building and maintaining a subscription-management system. And they get key advantages because Billing is deeply integrated into the Stripe payments stack—for example, our customers recovered 41% of failed payments last year through automatic card updates, smart retries, and other included capabilities.