Over the next few weeks, we’re rolling out new features in the Dashboard to help marketplaces and platforms efficiently run their business on Stripe Connect. With these improvements, you can send funds to your sellers or service providers (“connected accounts”), see detailed breakdowns of an account’s recent activity, and quickly update account information directly in the Connect portion of the Dashboard.
We’ve added a number of new features to Stripe Payments over the last few months that might be useful for your business.
Today, we’re adding support for creating a limited liability company (LLC) with Stripe Atlas. It’s been one of the most requested features from our users, and we’re excited to make it possible.
At Stripe, we’ve always been intentional about how we communicate, share information, and stay connected. Back when Stripe was smaller, it was easy for this to happen automatically. But by the time we hit around 150 people, it became hard to know everyone’s name. So at a company hackathon, a few Stripes created People, a directory to help Stripes meet and get to really know each other.
We launched Radar in 2016 to help protect our users from fraud. We’ve blocked billions of dollars in fraud across the Stripe network for companies of all sizes—from startups like Slice and WeSwap to larger companies like Fitbit and OpenTable. Since launch, we’ve continuously invested in our suite of fraud prevention tools, and today, we’re excited to launch the result of those efforts.
Today, we’re excited to launch Stripe Billing, a new suite of tools to help companies of all sizes automate, optimize, and scale recurring business models. This new product is an evolution of Stripe Subscriptions and adds many new features.
Today, we’ve added a new Developers section to the Dashboard that helps you build and manage your Stripe integration. You can monitor API and webhook usage in real time, manage API upgrades, and find all our developer tools in one place.
We’ll be turning off support for all API requests to Stripe from servers using older versions of TLS on June 13, 2018. The TLS protocol is used to encrypt your servers’ communications with Stripe, so it’s important that your integration uses the latest version. (TLS 1.2 is much more secure than its predecessors.)
We are winding down support for Bitcoin payments. Over the next three months we will work with affected Stripe users to ensure a smooth transition before we stop processing Bitcoin transactions on April 23, 2018.
We’ve heard from many Stripe Atlas entrepreneurs that getting business taxes right is painful. It’s hard to know what taxes you owe, good accountants are expensive and hard to find, and fixing mistakes is even more expensive. All of this takes time away from building your product and company.
We built a distributed cron job scheduling system on top of Kubernetes, an exciting new platform for container orchestration. In this post, we’ll explain why we chose to build on top of Kubernetes, how we integrated Kubernetes into our existing infrastructure, our approach to building confidence in (and improving) our Kubernetes’ cluster’s reliability, and the abstractions we’ve built on top of Kubernetes.
We built Sigma to help businesses quickly analyze their Stripe data and get to insights faster. Today, we’re adding the ability for Connect platforms to query data about their connected accounts as well.
We’ve consistently heard from platforms that onboarding sellers is still one of the hardest challenges they face. Earlier this year, we launched Express accounts for Connect platforms to provide you a quick and easy way to onboard individuals as sellers and service providers while maintaining control over the look and feel of the experience. Express platforms have already onboarded thousands of individuals across industries ranging from childcare to streetwear. Starting today, you can also onboard businesses on your platform with Express.
Today, we’re starting an invite-only beta for Stripe in India with a small group of companies. These businesses will help us test our platform in the Indian market and provide feedback on features that we’ll need to build to support all Indian businesses looking to accept online payments and run their companies on Stripe.
When we launched Stripe Radar to help you prevent payment fraud, we built in the ability to manually review suspicious payments. Suspicious payments are flagged for review either by Radar’s machine learning systems or when they trigger a custom rule set by your business.
Stripe Sigma helps you analyze your Stripe data with industry-standard SQL, making it easier to get powerful real-time insights into your business data. Today, we’re adding a couple more useful features in response to requests we’ve heard.
Today, we’re launching two additional features to improve the security of your Stripe account: an option to use hardware tokens for two-step authentication and the ability to create API keys with restricted access and granular permissions.
At Stripe, we regularly contribute to open-source projects and rely on open-source software for developing many different parts of our stack. Stripe supported the development of Hypothesis, an open-source testing library for Python created by David MacIver. Hypothesis provides effective tooling for testing code for machine learning, a domain in which testing and correctness are notoriously difficult.
Today we’re officially launching Stripe in New Zealand!
Businesses in New Zealand can now sign up instantly and start accepting payments in minutes with 135+ currencies from customers around the world. From Connect and Billing to Radar and Sigma, New Zealand businesses can now use the full Stripe stack to start and scale global companies.
Today, we’re excited to add .NET to our officially supported languages (alongside Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, Node, and Go). Going forward, we’ll regularly be updating the Stripe .NET library to support our latest products and features.