Starting today, we’re introducing a new release cadence and versioning system for all API endpoints that combines twice-yearly major updates with monthly feature enhancements. This set release schedule gives you the predictability and clarity that you need to better plan your engineering cycles.
We surveyed more than 2,000 subscription business leaders from around the world to understand how they are responding to the growing trend of pricing-as-a-product. We learned that businesses increasingly want to experiment with pricing models, but there is one thing in their way: their billing systems.
We’ve been testing a suite of new developer tools over the last year with thousands of users, including Slack and Notion. Today, we’re announcing that the first is available to all new users by default: Stripe Workbench, our new home for developers within the Dashboard that helps you debug, monitor, and grow your Stripe integration.
Global businesses have told us they’re interested in replicating the fraud prevention success seen in Europe by requesting 3DS. Last year, we had a front-row seat as several Stripe users chose to do exactly that, but the results in the US were very different from what we have seen in Europe.
In this post, we share three ways our usage-based product is unique in the market—integrating naturally alongside your other billing pathways, while scaling with you as your usage-based pricing ambitions grow.
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) methods, little-known less than a decade ago, now account for more than $300 billion in transactions worldwide. However, they tend to be priced at a premium, so our users wanted to know whether the financial benefits would offset the added costs. With that in mind, we ran an experiment to help Stripe businesses assess when and how to offer BNPLs.
In this blog post we’ll share an overview of Stripe’s database infrastructure and discuss the design and application of the Data Movement Platform.
Last month we announced a new Billing migration toolkit designed to address your top pain points: engineering resourcing, the risk of disruptive errors, and migration time. Here’s how the migration toolkit addresses each.
If the first wave of digitization in broadcast media was about the move into streaming, this second one is about open-ended optimizations of the streaming experience. Top media companies are partnering with Stripe to add new content bundles, change pricing models, and personalize payments.
Today Stripe is launching a new way of logging in that makes it possible to have both speed and security: one-click login using passkeys.
We announced 17 new embedded components that package up our industry-leading payments capabilities and turn what could have been a months-long project for a full team into just a few days of work for one engineer.
Stripe Organizations allows you to manage all your Stripe accounts in one place. You can streamline team and role management from a centralized dashboard, search for customer and payment information across all your accounts, and run unified reports across your entire business.
Stripe Billing allows businesses to manage customer relationships with recurring payments, usage triggers, and other customizable features.
We announced AI-powered payments, our biggest-ever upgrades to Stripe Connect, new support for usage-based billing, increased interoperability, and a lot more.
This blog discusses the technical details of how we built Shepherd and how we are expanding the capabilities of Chronon to meet Stripe’s scale.
Today, the most innovative changes in marketplaces are about providing more value to sellers. Many of them hinge on the kind of financial infrastructure Stripe provides. We’ve found leading marketplaces increasingly ask us to support them with three main types of incentives for sellers: access to a global customer base, an easy onboarding experience, and financial tools like loans and spend cards available in the marketplace dashboard.
Through app collections and embeddable apps, Stripe is providing more ways to discover tools that help businesses work more effectively.
The rise of direct-to-consumer sales, subscription models, and connected car services have made payments and financial infrastructure key differentiators for auto brands. Leading auto companies are partnering with Stripe to better serve their customers and find new revenue opportunities.
In this blog post, we’ll share technical details on how we built this state-of-the-art money movement tracking system, and describe how teams at Stripe interact with the data quality metrics that underlie our payment processing network.
In this post, we walk you through the engineering decisions we made that have enabled Smart Retries to recover $9 in revenue for every $1 customers spend on Billing—and the four main lessons we learned throughout the process.