Product

New Elements features to help you increase conversion at checkout

Abhi Tiwari Checkout Experiences Product Team

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.

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Engineering

How Stripe builds interactive docs with Markdoc

Ryan Paul Docs Product
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Delivering a good user experience without compromising the authoring experience required us to develop an authoring format that enables writers to express interactivity and simple page logic without mixing code and content.

While developing Markdoc, we learned how to balance interactivity, customization, and authoring productivity while undertaking a major overhaul of our documentation platform.

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Recent highlights

Terminal expands to more countries in Europe

Businesses can now accept in-person payments in Switzerland and Norway with Terminal's flexible APIs, SDKs, and pre-certified card readers.

New Billing analytics functionalities

You can now customize how Stripe calculates your MRR and churn, and export your SaaS and billing metrics in CSV format.

Tap to Pay on iPhone now available in the US

You can now accept in-person contactless payments with only an iPhone and Stripe Terminal—no additional hardware required.

Stripe Identity mobile SDKs are now available in public beta

Verify customers seamlessly in your Android or iOS app with the Stripe Identity mobile SDK. Get up and running quickly with a few lines of code.

Set up the customer portal without code

You can now set up a prebuilt customer portal in minutes–without a line of code–empowering your customers to manage their subscriptions, invoices, and payment details themselves.

Expanded global coverage with Connect

We’ve added cross-border payout coverage for US platforms to 100+ countries, making it easy to pay out to connected accounts all over the world.

International support for Cartes Bancaires

All Stripe businesses across Europe can now enable CB. Offer the largest card network in France to meet local preferences and increase acceptance rates with your French customers.

BLIK

European businesses on Stripe can now enable BLIK. The Polish payment system allows customers to complete a transaction via their banking app and greatly increases conversion.

Stripe, everywhere in the EU

We've added support for businesses in Croatia—making Stripe available everywhere in the European Union. Businesses in Gibraltar and Liechtenstein can also sign up now.

Affirm

Businesses in the US can now offer Affirm to let customers pay for a large purchase over time. Eligible businesses can start accepting Affirm in minutes.

Changelog

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  • Stripe Apps

    Developers for Stripe Apps UI extensions are now able to configure their apps based on the environment that they are running in. Learn more 

Changelog

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  • Payments

    Real-time card account updater is now available to reduce declines for Visa volume in Europe and the UK. Learn more 

  • Payments

    Real-time card account updater is now available to reduce declines for Mastercard volume in all Stripe markets across NA, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM. Learn more 

  • Payments

    Network tokens are now available for Visa and Mastercard volume to improve acceptance rates in all Stripe markets across NA, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM. Learn more 

  • Payments

    US businesses now automatically benefit from reduced fraud and false declines from Stripe’s Enhanced Issuer Network. Learn more 

Engineering

Fast builds, secure builds. Choose two.

Sushain Cherivirala Software Engineer, Build Team

Stripe's continuous integration (CI) system is responsible for orchestrating build pipelines and executing the tens of thousands of test suites that our engineers depend on to validate their changes. We lean on a combination of open-source technologies and novel engineering to deliver a CI system that is performant, secure, and delivers a delightful developer experience.

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