About Stripe
Stripe is the developer-friendly payments platform that powers millions of businesses online. It handles one-time charges, subscriptions, invoicing, and marketplace payouts with clean APIs and pre-built checkout components. If you sell anything online or need to bill customers remotely, Stripe is the gold standard.
Key Features
- ✓Accept credit cards, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and 100+ methods
- ✓Hosted checkout page or embeddable payment elements
- ✓Subscription billing with dunning and retry logic
- ✓Professional invoicing with online payment links
- ✓Connect platform for marketplace and multi-party payouts
- ✓Built-in fraud detection with Stripe Radar
- ✓Real-time financial reporting dashboard
- ✓Tax calculation and reporting via Stripe Tax
Best For
- →Online service businesses taking payments remotely
- →SaaS and subscription companies
- →Marketplace and platform businesses
- →Any business needing professional invoicing
Limitations
- •Requires some technical setup — not plug-and-play for non-tech users
- •In-person payments require additional hardware and higher fees
- •Dispute and chargeback process favors the cardholder