Unified, global payments to grow your revenue

Accept payments online, in person, and around the world with a payments solution built for any business – from scaling startups to global enterprises.

Convert more customers

Increase conversion with built-in optimisations, access to 100+ payment methods, and one-click checkout. Unify online and in-person payments to provide a seamless customer experience.

Global reach, local experience

Expand to new markets faster by launching payment methods and presenting in local currencies. Sell cross-border to 195+ countries and lower the costs of multi-currency management.

Less fraud, more revenue

Automatically decrease fraud and improve authorisation rates with Stripe’s machine learning–powered optimisations, which are trained on billions of data points.

Move faster and lower costs

Save time and engineering resources through increased developer productivity. Avoid downtime with leading reliability and reduce costs through alternative payment methods and rails.

Online payments

Optimise your checkout experience

Stripe’s Optimized Checkout Suite delivers a frictionless customer experience. Increase revenue and save thousands of engineering hours with pre-built payment UIs, easy access to more than 100 payment methods, and Link, Stripe’s one-click checkout.

11.9%

average revenue uplift for businesses using Stripe’s latest checkout optimisations

Multiple ways to accept payments online

Surface the most relevant payment methods

Turn on the most popular payment methods from the Stripe Dashboard, and then use Stripe’s machine learning algorithm to dynamically show customers the most relevant ones you’ve enabled. Experiment with new payment methods, A/B test to understand impact, and set custom rules with no code – while offloading maintenance and eligibility requirements to Stripe.

Access 100+ payment methods, including buy now, pay later options that can boost sales by up to 11%, and bank debits and real-time payments that can lower transaction costs.

One-click checkout with Link

Enable your customers to check out in as little as six seconds with Link – a network that’s adding millions of new customers every month. Returning customers can use Link to pay with a previously saved US bank account or credit card, helping you improve your conversion rates and customer experience.

Global payments

Expand to new markets faster

Reduce the complexity and cost of multi-currency management with flexible cross-border payment options available in 195 countries across 135+ currencies. Stripe has extensive local acquiring coverage in 47 markets, with direct bank setups and local knowledge.

Access 100+ payment methods

Adapt to customer preferences and expand into new markets by surfacing global payment methods used by buyers around the world.

Present in local currencies

Improve conversion by presenting in local currencies using the latest exchange rate with Adaptive Pricing.

Manage funds in multiple currencies

Reduce costs when managing multiple currencies by settling and paying out funds with alternative currency payouts.

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In-person payments

Unified payments in-person and online

Build a unified commerce experience across online and in-person channels to personalise customer interactions, reward loyalty, and grow revenue. Stripe Terminal’s pre-certified devices serve a wide range of use cases, from countertop to kerbside. With select readers, you can customise splash screens, collect customer input, or run your own POS app directly.

Payment performance

Powerful payment tools to increase revenue

Improve payment performance with a range of customisable, easy-to-configure payment tools. Startups can launch fast with no-code fraud protection, while large businesses can use advanced payments capabilities to improve optimisation and reduce costs.

Reduce disputes by 41%

Get automatic fraud prevention with no integration required. Radar’s machine learning models are trained on hundreds of billions of data points – even if a card is new to your business, there’s a 91% chance it’s been seen before on the Stripe network.

Tap into the Enhanced Issuer Network

Stripe securely shares Radar fraud scores to help participating issuers, including Capital One and Discover, make more accurate authorisation decisions. Businesses see an up to 8% reduction in fraud and 1-2% authorisation rate uplift on eligible volume.

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Boost auth rates

With Stripe’s direct integrations to card networks, deep partnerships with issuers, and advanced machine learning, businesses on Stripe have realised billions of dollars in incremental revenue through payment optimisations each year – all with no integration work required.

5%

increase in revenue from improved authorisation rates

Network tokens and card account updater

Reduce false declines or your customer having to manually re-enter expired or lost cards, available across all of Stripe’s global markets.

SCA optimisation

Stripe provides pre-built and customisable solutions to help you meet SCA requirements and optimise for conversion with European customers.

Adaptive Acceptance and Smart Retries

Automatically retry transactions at the optimal time using proprietary, machine learning algorithms.

Since moving over to Stripe, our payment processing approval rates have picked up by 6% in a very short period of time, which is a huge win in improving our conversion rates with customers and our reputation with issuers.

Jeff Arsenio, Head of Product Development, SkipTheDishes
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Optimise costs

Get visibility into network costs with deep insights from Stripe’s network costs insights report and cost optimisation workshops to better manage transaction costs.

Stripe Dashboard report showing how to optimize cost

Advanced payments capabilities

Use Stripe to easily customise your payments setup with more accessible, enterprise-grade capabilities that can accelerate time to market, increase revenue, and reduce costs.
  • Advanced card acquiring, including incremental auth, multicapture, and more
  • Local acquiring in global markets
  • Access to regional debit networks
  • Ability to pass L2/L3 data
  • Support for multiprocessor setups
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Unified platform

Move faster with a flexible, reliable platform engineered for growth

From startups looking to launch quickly to large, global businesses eager to improve payment economics, Stripe’s secure, unified platform is built to help your business grow efficiently.

Reliability is revenue

Avoid downtime losses even during peak periods such as Black Friday. With more than 500M API requests per day and daily capacity tests, Stripe is the only major payment processor to publish its uptime. Our overprovisioned API servers mean easy scale-up and minimal latency.

Compliance at the core

Simplify compliance with an industry-leading partner certified to the highest compliance standards and operational excellence. Stripe is a member of the PCI Board of Advisors and has a 100% PCI audit success rate as a PCI Level 1 Service Provider.

Keep payments secure

Build on a platform designed to protect your data with AES encryption and isolated infrastructure that doesn’t share any credentials with Stripe’s primary services.

Isolated infrastructure

Stripe’s infrastructure for storing, decrypting, and transmitting card numbers runs in separate hosting infrastructure.

AES encryption

All card numbers are encrypted on disk with AES-256. Decryption keys are stored on separate machines.

Stripe received top scores in more criteria than any other vendor evaluated

Stripe was recognised with the joint highest score in both the strategy and current offering categories in The Forrester Wave™.

5/5

score in payments performance optimization

5/5

score in innovation

Best-in-class documentation

Developer-centric to get started fast

A single integration and extensive documentation mean faster time to market, less maintenance of legacy systems, and more focus on customer and product experiences.

Comprehensive libraries

Stripe libraries are available for all of the most commonly used languages and frameworks.

How it works

Deep dive into Stripe’s unified payments stack

Explore specific products and features and how they can benefit your business. Or, if you’re new to payments, read our guides to learn more about the fundamentals.

Pricing

Pricing built for businesses of all sizes

Access a complete payments solution with simple, pay-as-you-go pricing that lets you get started in minutes with no setup fees.

1.5% + €0.25

for standard European cards

2.5% + €0.25

for UK cards

Payment method pricing 

Designed for businesses with large payments volume or unique use cases.

  • Volume discounts
  • Country-specific rates
  • Multi-product discounts
  • Interchange plus pricing

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Early-bird passes now available

Registration is open for Stripe Sessions, the global internet economy conference. Join us to make new connections, learn about trends and technology, and hear from some of the biggest names in business.

Ready to get started?

Create an account and start accepting payments – no contracts or banking details required. Or, contact us to design a custom package for your business.

Recurring payments

Bill one-off or manage subscriptions and reduce churn.

Platform payments

Easily support multiparty payments and global payouts.