Facilitate payments on your platform

Stripe Connect can help you create your own payments service and grow your platform’s revenue—whether you’re building software for retailers, non-profits, or landlords.
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Deeply integrated payments

Embed payments into your software platform for a seamless user experience—from onboarding to payouts.

New lines of revenue

Monetize payments on your platform through markup or revenue share and add new lines of business with additional products like in-person payments.

Launch faster

Go live faster with a single global integration that minimizes operational complexity and development resources.

Built for scale

Whether you’re just getting started or onboarding millions of customers, Stripe makes it easy to integrate and add more features as you grow.

Integrated payments experience

Create your own payments service

Make your software platform more valuable to customers by embedding Stripe’s powerful payments technology. Connect helps you offer payments as a service to your customers and get up and running quickly.
  • No-code setup for your customers
  • Single, global platform for accepting all payments
  • Role-based access control
  • Frictionless one-click checkout with Link
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Online and in-person payments

Fareharbor partnered with Stripe to let their tour and activity operators accept online and in-person payments. They use Stripe’s conversion-optimized UI to easily onboard and verify businesses in 20+ markets around the world.

Invoices and online payments

Xero partnered with Stripe to let businesses add a “pay” button to their invoices to collect online payments instantly. By adding payments to invoicing, Xero helped their customers get paid up to 15 days faster.

Add lines of revenue

Monetize payments on your platformsn

In addition to being a useful feature for your customers, payments can be a revenue stream and competitive advantage for your platform. Stripe can help you monetize payments and add new lines of business with features like instant payouts, in-person payments, lending, and more.
  • Quickly launch a payments service using Stripe
  • Earn a portion of each transaction with a markup or revenue share
  • Customize payments pricing for your customers
  • Monetize instant payouts and other products

Global scale and compliance

Accelerate international expansion

Reduce compliance risk

Running a multi-sided marketplace can often mean wrestling with card network rules, money transmission, KYC, tax reporting, and more. Stripe takes on your payments KYC obligations and automatically updates to meet the latest requirements —no changes required to your integration.
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Go live around the world faster

Quickly expand to anywhere Stripe operates without having to establish separate local subsidiaries. Marketplaces built with Connect get out-of-the-box access to the hundreds of global Stripe Payments features.
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Case studies

Solution

Lyft worked with Stripe to build Express Pay, providing drivers the ability to decide when they want to get paid out—typically within a few hours of a ride.

Impact

In 6 months, over 40% of all payouts on Lyft were done over Express Pay. Lyft was able to add value for drivers and attract more drivers to their marketplace.

Products

    • Connect
    • Payments
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Learn how to use Connect to power payments for your marketplace

We recommend using Connect with Standard accounts to add payments to your platform. Standard accounts are quick to set up and include:

  • A conversion-optimized onboarding UI
  • A powerful reporting and analytics dashboard for your customers
  • Stripe taking on responsibility for account losses
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