The Stripe iOS SDK makes it easy to build an excellent payment experience in your iOS app. It provides powerful, customizable, UI elements to use out-of-the-box to collect your users' payment details.

We also expose the low-level APIs that power those elements to make it easy to build fully custom forms. This guide will take you all the way from integrating our SDK to accepting payments from your users via both credit cards and Apple Pay.

If you'd like to see a complete iOS example, check out Rocket Rides, built using the iOS SDK and Stripe Connect.

Install and configure the SDK

You can choose to install the Stripe iOS SDK via your favorite method. We support CocoaPods, Carthage, both static and dynamic frameworks, as well as Fabric.

Configure your Stripe integration in your App Delegate

After you're done installing the SDK, configure it with your Stripe API keys.

import UIKit
import Stripe

@UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {

    func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
        STPPaymentConfiguration.shared().publishableKey = "pk_test_g6do5S237ekq10r65BnxO6S0"
        // do any other necessary launch configuration
        return true
    }
}

#import "AppDelegate.h"
@import Stripe;

@implementation AppDelegate
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
    [[STPPaymentConfiguration sharedConfiguration] setPublishableKey:@"pk_test_g6do5S237ekq10r65BnxO6S0"];
    // do any other necessary launch configuration
    return YES;
}
@end

Set up Apple Pay (optional)

Getting ready to accept Apple Pay in your app involves some (very quick) setup on the Apple Developer website, which we have as a separate guide to help get started. After you've obtained an Apple Merchant ID, set it in your configuration:

STPPaymentConfiguration.shared().appleMerchantIdentifier = "your apple merchant identifier"

[[STPPaymentConfiguration sharedConfiguration] setAppleMerchantIdentifier:@"your apple merchant identifier"];

Using Stripe and Apple Pay vs. in-app purchases

You can use any of Stripe's supported payment methods and Apple Pay in your iOS app to sell physical goods (e.g., groceries and clothing) or for services your business provides (e.g., club memberships and hotel reservations). These payments are processed through Stripe and you only need to pay Stripe's processing fee.

Apple's developer terms require that the In-App Purchase API must be used for digital "content, functionality, or services", such as premium content for your app or subscriptions for digital content. Payments made using the In-App Purchase API are processed by Apple with a fee of 30% of the total transaction.

Next steps

• The simplest way to integrate our SDK is using STPPaymentContext, a class designed to make building your app's checkout flow as easy as possible. It handles collecting, saving, and reusing your user's payment details, and can also be used to collect shipping info. If you'd like to use STPPaymentContext, please read our Standard Integration Guide.
• If you find that STPPaymentContext isn't flexible enough for your needs, you can use the individual components that it uses under the hood. For this, please refer to our Custom Integration Guide.
• If you'd like to use Sources with the iOS SDK, we have a separate guide to help you get started.