Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform that helps businesses accept payments, manage billing, and build financial services into their products. It provides tools and APIs for online and in-person payments, subscriptions, invoicing, payouts, fraud prevention, tax, and other financial operations.

Businesses can use Stripe to accept credit and debit cards, digital wallets, bank payments, and other payment methods across different markets. Its payment infrastructure is designed for websites, mobile applications, online stores, marketplaces, SaaS products, and other internet businesses that need to process transactions securely.

Stripe also provides billing and subscription tools for businesses that charge customers on a recurring basis. Companies can create subscription plans, manage invoices, handle payment failures, offer trials and discounts, and monitor customer payment activity. For marketplaces and platforms, Stripe provides functionality for managing payments between multiple parties and sending payouts to sellers or service providers.

Developers can integrate Stripe using APIs, SDKs, hosted checkout pages, payment links, and pre-built components. The platform supports integrations with common web and mobile technologies while providing dashboards and reporting tools for teams that prefer to manage payments without building every component from scratch.

Stripe also offers products for fraud detection, identity verification, tax compliance, revenue management, financial reporting, and embedded financial services. Its infrastructure can be used by early-stage startups as well as established companies with more complex payment and financial requirements.

Stripe is primarily designed for businesses, developers, SaaS companies, e-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and organizations that need payment and financial infrastructure as part of their digital products or operations.