This blog discusses the technical details of how we built Shepherd and how we are expanding the capabilities of Chronon to meet Stripe’s scale.

Today, the most innovative changes in marketplaces are about providing more value to sellers. Many of them hinge on the kind of financial infrastructure Stripe provides. We’ve found leading marketplaces increasingly ask us to support them with three main types of incentives for sellers: access to a global customer base, an easy onboarding experience, and financial tools like loans and spend cards available in the marketplace dashboard.

Through app collections and embeddable apps, Stripe is providing more ways to discover tools that help businesses work more effectively.

The rise of direct-to-consumer sales, subscription models, and connected car services have made payments and financial infrastructure key differentiators for auto brands. Leading auto companies are partnering with Stripe to better serve their customers and find new revenue opportunities.

In this blog post, we’ll share technical details on how we built this state-of-the-art money movement tracking system, and describe how teams at Stripe interact with the data quality metrics that underlie our payment processing network.

In this post, we walk you through the engineering decisions we made that have enabled Smart Retries to recover $9 in revenue for every $1 customers spend on Billing—and the four main lessons we learned throughout the process.

Please join us April 23–25 at Moscone West in San Francisco for our largest event ever.

Startups have always prized Stripe’s speed and agility. Today, growth-minded enterprises are asking for it, too. We’ve built the payment capabilities they require to harness Stripe’s pace of innovation.

As the global business environment grows more complex, the back office has become an important strategic lever. This week we’re adding new features to our revenue and finance automation suite that make it easier for businesses to grow revenue and streamline operations.

Businesses spend vast resources attracting customers, only to lose sales at the very last stage of the customer journey—the checkout. This week we’re releasing new features to our optimized checkout suite to help businesses change that.

Stripe data shows that the creator economy has evolved but is still thriving. We’ve seen this evolution up close, as many of the largest creator platforms use Stripe Connect to onboard creators and pay out funds around the world.

You can now configure payment method settings from the Dashboard—no code required. We call this integration path dynamic payment methods. 

At our annual user conference, we shared how we are helping businesses increase revenue with our global payments suite, how we are allowing platforms and marketplaces to generate more revenue and get to market faster, and how we are helping businesses find new efficiencies through developer tools and automated revenue and finance operations.

Introducing an embeddable and customizable fiat-to-crypto onramp. Let customers buy crypto within your Web3 app with one click. Tailor the onramp to match your brand, and we’ll take care of the rest: KYC, fraud, and disputes.

Delivering a good user experience without compromising the authoring experience required us to develop an authoring format that enables writers to express interactivity and simple page logic without mixing code and content.

While developing Markdoc, we learned how to balance interactivity, customization, and authoring productivity while undertaking a major overhaul of our documentation platform.