The payment processor that powers half the internet. Developer-first APIs, 99.999% uptime, used by Amazon, Google, and Shopify.
Stripe is the gold standard of internet payments. The API is the cleanest in fintech, the documentation is best-in-class, and the platform has expanded from card processing into Stripe Tax, Stripe Billing, Stripe Connect (marketplaces), Stripe Capital (lending), and Stripe Issuing (card issuing). If you're building an online business, you start with Stripe.
Who it's for: Any online business taking card payments — SaaS, ecommerce, marketplaces, and any developer building a checkout flow.
Accept Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover, JCB, UnionPay, and 100+ local payment methods. One API.
ML-based fraud detection trained on trillions of dollars of transactions. Block fraud with zero false positives.
Recurring billing, dunning, proration, revenue recovery, smart retries. Handles complex SaaS billing logic.
Pay out to thousands of sellers globally. KYC, 1099s, multi-currency, all built in.
Stripe is the default for online payments. If you're a developer building a SaaS or ecommerce business, Stripe is the right choice 95% of the time. For low-volume offline businesses, Square is simpler. For high-risk categories, payment processors like PaymentCloud are more flexible.