Allow users to easily sign up and quickly get paid. Take advantage of prebuilt UIs to launch faster and maximize conversion.
Tailor onboarding options, set payout timing, collect fees, and add your own branding to the user experience.
Take advantage of Stripe’s worldwide licenses. Reduce your regulatory and compliance overhead by shifting payments compliance to Stripe.
Send funds to users in 118+ countries—no need to establish local entities or banking partnerships.
Every marketplace needs to handle the complexities that come with onboarding, including evolving compliance requirements that can vary by business model, transaction type, and country. Connect provides the highest converting onboarding flows, built from Stripe’s learnings from optimizing onboarding experiences for thousands of marketplaces.
Use conversion-optimized, prebuilt UIs or build your own flows with flexible APIs.
In some countries, all you need is a name and bank account to get started.
Unlock accelerated onboarding for millions of businesses and individuals that already use Stripe.
Stripe carries out risk-based screening against lists of high-risk merchants.
Managing payouts comes with significant operational overhead, from uploading spreadsheets and mailing checks to juggling multiple payout providers. Connect offers a powerful global routing and payout engine that makes it easy to send money to users quickly, securely, and without any manual reconciliation work.
We were wasting countless hours manually tracking our payouts to sellers with ACH. When we switched to Connect, we were able to automate our payout process while rapidly scaling our business. It’s saved us a ton of Engineering work and tracking has been significantly easier.
The Stripe Dashboard provides a unified hub that lets your finance, operations, and support teams work together to manage payouts for large numbers of users. View reports, manage user information, send funds, issue refunds, handle chargebacks, and more.
- Full records of all customer transactions on Stripe
- Let Stripe net out earnings
- Role-based access control
You can also send all your up-to-date marketplace data to your data warehouse with Stripe Data Pipeline.
Automatically generate, file, and deliver 1099 tax forms for your sellers, freelancers, or service providers.
Auto-generate 1099s and avoid hours of manual work. Stripe handles e-filing with the IRS and delivers copies to your sellers or service providers.
Stop manually merging identity and payment data from multiple sources. Stripe gives you a unified view of who you paid and how much.
Get help verifying relevant tax IDs to stay compliant, avoid mistakes and fines, and eliminate paperwork.
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.
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.
of companies on the a16z Marketplace 100 list use Stripe. Connect helps the largest and fastest growing marketplaces pay out users faster, accelerate global expansion, and simplify compliance.
Lyft’s biggest request from drivers was the ability to get paid more frequently compared to traditional weekly payouts.
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.
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.
Kickstarter’s mission is to help bring creative projects to life by making it easy for entrepreneurs to accept funding from people in any country, currency, and payment method.
Kickstarter worked with Stripe to create local entities in new markets to match creators with backers.
Within months, Kickstarter was able to expand to creators in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Mexico. Today, Kickstarter accepts card payments from customers around the world and more than 80,000 projects have been successfully funded.
Build your payment business with speed and flexibility. If you use Stripe-hosted workflows, you’ll get access to:
See how marketplaces are using other Stripe products to increase conversion, prevent fraud, issue credit cards, and more.
Usage-based and flexible based on the capabilities you need.