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Issuing cards
    Overview
    Global Issuing
    Get started
    How Issuing works
    Choose your card offering
    Customize your program
    Add funds to your card program
    Manage fraud
    Cards
    Create cards
    Virtual cards
    Physical cards
    Manage cards
    Digital wallets
    Replacement cards
    Testing and support
    Testing physical cards
    Support
    Controls
    Spending controls
    Real-time authorizations
    SMS fraud alerts
    3D Secure
    PIN management
    Issuing Elements
    Token Management
    Funding
    Balance
    Issuing with Connect
    Set up an Issuing and Connect integration
    Connect funding
    Connected accounts cardholders and cards
    Purchases
    Authorizations
    Transactions
    Disputes
    Testing
    Merchant categories
    Additional information
    Choose a cardholder type
    Marketing guidance (Europe/UK)
    Product and marketing compliance guidance (US)
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Issuing

An API for businesses to instantly create, manage, and distribute payment cards.

Issuing is available in the United States and United Kingdom. Learn more about availability in Europe.

Get started

Sign up

Contact sales to get started.

Add funds

Make funds available in your Issuing balance for future card spend.

Create cards

Create cardholders and issue virtual or physical cards.

Build a platform

Create separate connected accounts, each with their own balance and cards.

Add a logo

Customize physical cards with a company logo.

Test the integration

Simulate purchases in test mode before going live.

Manage cards

Set spending controls

Set rules on cards and cardholders to control spend.

Perform real-time authorizations

Approve or decline authorization requests in real time.

Add cards to digital wallets

Spend cards with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Samsung Pay.

Handle authorizations

Learn how to handle partial, incremental, and reversal authorizations.

Handle transactions

Learn how to handle refunds and other types of transaction captures.

Dispute transactions

Learn about submitting and tracking disputes.

Get Issuing cards support

Get support for self-service cards.

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Welcome to the Stripe Shell! Stripe Shell is a browser-based shell with the Stripe CLI pre-installed. Login to your Stripe account and press Control + Backtick on your keyboard to start managing your Stripe resources in test mode. - View supported Stripe commands: - Find webhook events: - Listen for webhook events: - Call Stripe APIs: stripe [api resource] [operation] (e.g. )
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