Payments for platforms and marketplaces

Stripe Connect is the fastest and easiest way to integrate payments into your platform or marketplace. Our APIs enable you to build and scale end-to-end payments experiences, from instant onboarding to global payouts, and create new revenue streams—all while having Stripe handle payments KYC.

How it works

Build your payments business with speed and flexibility

Launch faster

Get to market faster without the upfront costs or development time usually required for payment facilitation, with Stripe hosted onboarding.

Drive revenue growth

Make payments a powerful source of revenue with our revenue share program, or mark up payments to earn on every transaction.

Scale globally

Reach more customers worldwide with a global payments platform that supports dozens of local payment methods and easily calculates sales tax, VAT, and GST.

Unlock new revenue streams

Monetize Stripe’s complete suite of financial services products by offering financing, expense cards, or money management accounts to your users.

Onboard users in minutes

Whether you use Connect’s prebuilt, optimized UIs or build your own custom flows, it’s easy to get your users up and running quickly. Stripe handles Know Your Customer (KYC) obligations for payments and helps you meet other requirements for payments compliance.

Accept payments and manage tax

With Connect, your customers can accept 135+ currencies and dozens of popular payment methods all over the world. Enable easier expansion with support for sales tax, VAT, and GST in 40+ countries. Offer payments online, by invoice, or at the point of sale.

Ways to accept payments

  • Online and mobile payments
  • Point-of-sale payments
  • Subscriptions and billing
  • Invoicing

Payment methods

  • Credit and debit cards
  • ACH
  • Link
  • Alipay
  • Apple Pay
  • Bacs Direct Debit
  • BECS Direct Debit
  • FPX
  • OXXO
  • SEPA Direct Debit
  • WeChat Pay

Control how funds flow

Pay out users quickly and reduce operational overhead with Connect’s global routing and payout engine. You can split funds between multiple users, instantly route payments across borders, and specify your earnings on each transaction.

Direct charges

Buyers transact with sellers, often unaware of the platform’s existence. The platform may take fees from the transaction. Example: A buyer makes a purchase from a store that is built on Shopify’s platform.

Destination charges

Buyers transact with the platform, which transfers funds to the seller after collecting its platform fees. Example: A buyer books a ride using the Lyft app. Part of each charge is transferred to the Lyft driver.

Separate charges and transfers

A buyer makes a purchase and the platform later transfers different amounts from the charge to multiple sellers. Example: Scooter platform Bird splits funds from rentals among its network of contractors that charge its scooters.

Top-ups

A platform funds its Stripe balance from a bank account to send transfers not tied to a charge made on Stripe. Example: A platform tops up its Stripe balance to discount its service to buyers while still paying its sellers or service providers in full.

Payouts

A platform sends funds, unlinked to incoming payments, to their seller or service provider’s bank account or debit card. Example: Cozy sends money to its landlords, funded by its bank account.

Instant Payouts

A platform sends funds to its seller or service provider’s bank account or debit card instantly. Example: Instacart can pay its shoppers within minutes of a completed delivery.

Subscriptions

A platform allows its sellers to collect a recurring charge from buyers. Example: Blackbaud enables its nonprofits to accept recurring donations.

Account debits

A platform transfers funds from its seller or service providers to its own Stripe balance. Example: A platform pulls funds from its users to cover dispute fees.
  • Bank
  • Buyer
  • Platform
  • Seller or service provider

Manage your platform

Stripe helps keep full records of all transactions so that you can easily track and reconcile payments.
  • Manage and activate accounts
  • Track and reconcile payments
  • Issue refunds
  • Build custom reports
  • Generate tax forms
  • Send funds

Security and compliance

Compliance built for platforms and marketplaces

Paying out money is complicated by stringent regulations that vary by country. Connect shifts payments KYC obligations from you to Stripe. Under the hood, Connect offers card data tokenization to help with PCI compliance, provides verification systems to manage KYC checks, leverages Stripe’s licenses around the world, and more.
Stripe helps create safer payments businesses with our risk-based financial crimes screening program, including:
  • Identity verifications
  • KYC and AML checks for individuals and businesses
  • Sanctions screening
  • MATCH list checks
  • Secure credit card data tokenization for PCI compliance
  • Money transmitter licenses (MTL) in the US and e-money (EMI) license in the EU

Connect allows us to achieve compliance with minimal effort, spend practically no time on payments-related customer support, and keep the user experience on our platform. And, it’s reassuring to know that when we’re expanding to a new country, Stripe will be ready for us.

Johannes Koeppel, CEO and cofounder

Unified payments stack

Add new lines of business with Stripe’s integrated financial solutions

Expand your revenue beyond payments by offering your users access to Stripe’s financial solutions—including online and in-person payments, invoicing, card issuing, financing, sales tax collection, and more.

Point-of-sale payments

Unify in-person and online payments.

Tax automation on global payments

Help users stay compliant by calculating tax on all transactions.

Recurring and one-time invoices

Help users get paid faster with integrated invoicing.

Subscriptions and billing

Enable your users to create flexible subscriptions and billing plans.

Business financing

Offer access to loans to help your users manage cash flow and accelerate growth.

Issue and manage cards

Create, distribute, and manage physical and virtual spending cards for your users.

Reporting and analytics

Offer powerful reporting and analytics to your users.

Online and mobile payments

Improve conversion for users by offering payment methods like Apple Pay.

Use cases

Building blocks for every business model

Facilitate and monetize payments on your platform

Make your software platform more valuable with integrated payments and financial services. Build and scale with less overhead and more opportunities for revenue growth.

Power payments for your marketplace

Whether you run an on-demand, retail, creator, or crowdfunding marketplace, Connect helps you onboard users instantly, simplify compliance, and pay out globally.

Send payouts around the world

Programmatically send fast fiat or crypto payouts to your sellers, freelancers, creators, or service providers around the world with simple rates.

Drive more revenue with Connect

Platforms and marketplaces using Connect can grow revenue and expand faster while reducing manual processes and compliance risks

364%

ROI after switching to Stripe

10%

more revenue from new sellers

67%

reduction in expansion costs

A complete solution for payment facilitation

Learn how Connect can help you whitelabel and monetize payments.

Pricing for any business model

Usage-based and flexible based on the capabilities you need.