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SaaS platforms build, monetise and scale faster with Stripe
From first payment to full financial suite, get flexible infrastructure that grows with your vision. Whether you're launching embedded payments, offering in-person payments or expanding into capital, subscriptions and money movement, Stripe gives you the control to build the fintech experience your merchants need.
Why Stripe
Stripe powers the platform economy
18K+
platforms on Stripe Connect
12M+
merchants powered by platforms
135+
payment methods supported across 50+ countries
99.999%
historical uptime for Stripe services
Facilitate payments
Get to market faster
Onboard merchants in minutes
Use Stripe's prebuilt merchant onboarding flows to handle identity verification, KYC and compliance checks automatically, so your merchants can start accepting payments in minutes – without you building the compliance infrastructure from scratch.
Simplify payments pricing
Enable your merchants to pay Stripe directly for their payment fees – so you avoid building bespoke pricing infrastructure or managing complex fee structures yourself.
Protect your platform
Let Stripe handle risk management – from onboarding checks to real-time account monitoring – so you can focus on building.
Give merchants a full-featured dashboard – without the lift
Let customers access the Stripe Dashboard to handle all their payment needs. Or use Stripe’s APIs to build custom payments reporting and refund workflows for your customers directly within your platform.
Unified platform
Support merchants with any business model
Give customers access to Stripe’s entire suite of features: our products are designed to work together, making it easy to expand your offerings with minimal engineering investment.
Launch global payments
Help your customers increase revenue by optimising the checkout experience. Stripe supports 135+ currencies and 40+ global payment methods like Link, Apple Pay, ACH, and SEPA Direct Debit that can help increase conversion by as much as 50%.
Automate tax calculation and collection compliance
Stripe Tax makes it easier for your users to simplify tax compliance by offering a reliable, easy-to-integrate tax automation solution. Stripe Tax is optimised for tax calculation in 40+ countries and all US states.
Monetise your payments
Turn payments into a revenue line. Earn from transaction fees, offer financing and subscription or loyalty programmes to your merchants and access new financial products as your platform scales.
Grow your platform with in-person payments
Take in-person payments anywhere, in your brand. Stripe's premium hardware range, Tap to Pay on iPhone and Android and white-labelled logistics mean merchants get a seamless experience under your name – while Stripe handles the operational complexity.
Differentiate your platform
Own and monetise the entire cash flow lifecycle
In addition to payments, generate new revenue streams by offering cards, financing, financial accounts and money movement – turning every touchpoint in your merchants' cash flow into a platform monetisation opportunity.
Offer point of sale
Accept in-person payments using devices designed and manufactured by Stripe or third-party providers.
Extend capital
Help your merchants access the funds they need to accelerate growth with fast and flexible financing.
Instant payouts
Give merchants the option to deposit earnings into their bank accounts within minutes. Available 24/7 including weekends and holidays.
Embed financial services
With a single integration, enable your merchants to store funds, move money and spend with cards.
Case studies
Brightwheel grows from startup to vertical SaaS category leader
Brightwheel is an early education technology company that provides childcare management software and embedded financial tools for childcare centres, preschools, educators and families across the US and Canada.
Challenge
Brightwheel needed to simplify provider onboarding, handle identity verification and compliance at scale, enable reliable tuition collection online and improve cash flow for the educators on its platform – all without building bespoke payments infrastructure for every new market.
Solution
Brightwheel built its payments and financial infrastructure on Stripe, using embedded onboarding components and automated compliance to cut provider verification to roughly one day. It enabled multiple payment methods and next-day payouts and expanded into Canada without rebuilding its payments stack – scaling to serve millions of students and families across two countries.
Products
How INDY powers the future of independent movie theatres
INDY Cinema Group is a Scotland-founded cinema operating platform for independent movie theatres, including ticketing, concessions, memberships, marketing and payments.
Challenge
INDY needed to help local theatres compete with multiplex chains and streaming services. Theatre operators were using multiple fragmented systems for ticketing, concessions and memberships, creating operational inefficiencies and an inconsistent customer experience across every touchpoint.
Solution
INDY embedded Stripe throughout its platform to unify online and in-person commerce – launching with Stripe Payments and Connect, then adding Terminal with handheld readers for in-person ordering and Apps on Devices for dine-in workflows. This gave cinemas a single view of transaction data, simplified refunds and subscriptions and enabled expansion into new markets.
Products
Venue.ink grows to 10,000 tattoo artists with Stripe
Canada-based Venue offers tattoo artists and studios an all-in-one platform to run their business, including marketing, scheduling, communications and payments.
Challenge
Tattoo artists were running modern businesses with fragmented legacy tools – managing bookings on Instagram, collecting deposits via peer-to-peer apps and handling final payments in person. Venue needed a payments partner it could launch with quickly and rely on as its all-in-one platform for scheduling, marketing and payments continued to grow.
Solution
Venue integrated Connect to manage funds flow and streamline KYC-compliant artist onboarding in minutes. It implemented Stripe's payment element to accept cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and BNPL options and it added Terminal for in-person payments and Instant Payouts – giving artists fast access to their earnings and a seamless end-to-end experience.
Products
Stripe does for me what Venue does for tattoo artists: it takes care of the things no entrepreneur or artist should have to worry about. As a founder, the job isn't to reinvent payments. It's to invent everything else. Using Stripe lets me spend more time building things my customers want and love.
SiteMinder expands to serve hotels in 150 countries with the help of Stripe
SiteMinder is an award-winning hotel technology company based in Sydney, Australia, that brings enterprise hotel tech solutions to more than 50,000 customers.
Challenge
SiteMinder needed payments infrastructure that could handle complex multichannel booking flows, support rapid international expansion without building country-by-country compliance and licensing from scratch and reduce fraud – all while offering the local payment methods that regional hotel markets expect.
Solution
SiteMinder integrated Connect to route funds and simplify global merchant onboarding and it added Payments to support local payment methods like Apple Pay, Google Pay and iDEAL. It layered in Radar for AI-powered fraud detection and, most recently, Terminal to unify online and in-person payments – enabling a 90% onboarding success rate and a 61% reduction in fraudulent payment volume.
Products
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