Registration is open for Stripe Sessions—our annual user conference. Like last year, Sessions 2022 will be completely virtual, free to attend, and open to all.

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.

Sorbet has been a crucial part of Stripe’s growth in recent years. Today, Sorbet runs over our entire Ruby codebase, currently amounting to over 15 million lines of code spread across 150,000 Ruby files. Sorbet increases productivity and fosters a collective engineering culture. Here’s why we love Sorbet.

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.

We indexed the creator economy by measuring the growth of creator platforms on Stripe. Creators are coming online at a record clip—from all around the world. More and more are earning a living wage doing what they do best.

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.

In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.

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.

We've kicked off our free, virtual conference, Stripe Sessions, for payments leaders, developers, and founders. Read more about the new products and features we highlighted in our keynote and product talks.

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.

Sessions, our global user conference, will be fully online this year, making it accessible to anyone who wants to attend. We invite you to join us starting June 16, 2021. Through product talks, workshops, and fireside chats, Stripe leadership will discuss how we're building for the future economic growth of our customers.

Abstracting away the complexity of payments has driven the evolution of our APIs over the last decade. This post provides the context and conceptual frameworks behind our API design—and the milestones that led to the PaymentIntents API.