Discover the latest from Stripe Sessions! Explore new products, APIs, and enhancements, including Stripe Workflows for no-code automation, MCP server for AI integration, and Accounts v2 for streamlined management.

Sessions

Discover the benefits of Stripe's new public preview release channel, designed to provide early access to cutting-edge API features before their general availability. Start innovating faster with Stripe’s latest offerings while sharing your feedback to shape future developments!

Sessions

Today, Stripe launches Stripe Workflows, a powerful new way to automate your payment operations and orchestrate Stripe products with ease—right from the Dashboard. Whether you are looking to streamline invoicing, manage fraud detection, automate subscription logic, or build custom quote-to-cash flows, Stripe Workflows helps developers move faster with fewer lines of code. With built-in support for real-time triggers, conditional logic, and seamless integration across Stripe’s ecosystem, Workflows eliminates the need for managing infrastructure or writing boilerplate logic. Instead, you get a visual, event-driven automation engine designed for high-performance financial operations at scale. In this post, we’ll explore how Stripe Workflows can help you simplify complexity, boost developer productivity, and unlock new use cases—all with low latency and high reliability.

Workflows

Learn how to simplify customer charging across multiple accounts in your organization using Stripe's new sharing feature.

Organizations
Sandboxes

Discover advanced caching strategies to optimize Stripe API performance in AWS Lambda using Amazon ElastiCache and DynamoDB. Learn how to manage API rate limits, reduce latency, and minimize costs while ensuring data consistency and scalability in high-volume applications.

AWS

In complex, high-volume systems, even minor failures—like a dropped internet connection—can lead to major headaches, such as duplicate charges. This post explores advanced patterns for integrating Stripe into your enterprise applications with a focus on building fault-tolerant, user-friendly payment systems. Learn how strategies like idempotency and message queues can protect your users from double charges, reduce operational errors, and improve reliability as your system scales.

idempotency
Error Handling
Queues

Explore the complexities of enterprise subscription management and discover how an AWS microservice architecture can streamline subscription lifecycles. This guide uses AWS services to create a scalable, reliable, and auditable subscription management system, addressing challenges like mid-cycle plan changes and usage-based billing adjustments.

AWS

Discover how to integrate Stripe Data Pipeline with Google Cloud Storage and BigQuery for powerful analytics. This guide walks you through setting up automated data transfers, optimizing reporting, and unlocking valuable insights to enhance your business decisions.

Data Pipeline

Learn about the Stripe AI assistant in VS Code and how we built it, including technical details on retrieval, evaluations, measurement, and more.

AI
Dev Tools

Discover how to build a scalable real-time payment analytics pipeline from Stripe to AWS. This guide explores the challenges, architectural components, and implementation details to help businesses monitor transactions, enhance security, and gain insights into customer behavior.

AWS

Implementing a resilient multi-region payment processing system using AWS and Stripe ensures reliable webhook handling, minimizes outages, and complies with regulations. This guide covers architecture design, challenges, and AWS service integration for optimal global performance and rate limit management.

AWS

This article focuses on how to process Stripe's data in your AWS account with minimal code. You'll learn how to query your business and customer data using SQL, assisted by an LLM (Large Language Model) for query generation. Additionally, it demonstrates how to enhance the security of your data integration by using the native Stripe-AWS integration, specifically the Stripe Event Destination to Amazon EventBridge feature.

AWS
Sigma
Event Destinations

In this article, we will guide you on how to set up usage threshold alerts based on consumption for customers with pay-as-you-go plans. By integrating AWS's serverless tools with Stripe, you can create a streamlined and easy-to-manage notification system with minimal coding.

AWS
Billings
Event Destinations

Learn how to securely manage and automatically rotate your Stripe API keys in AWS for a production-grade approach. This guide covers best practices, tools, and strategies to enhance the security of your financial transactions.

AWS

Discover how to effectively track customer spending across multiple channels and payment processors. Learn about the challenges of fragmented payment systems and explore solutions like the Payment Account Reference (PAR) to gain a unified view.

Enterprise

Learn about Stripe integrations with essential tips for robust, secure payment systems and seamless user experiences. This guide prepares developers for real-world scenarios, from subscription management to dispute resolution, ensuring secure and seamless payments.

Getting Started

Discover how to build reliable webhook handlers for Stripe events using AWS in this comprehensive guide. Learn about the challenges of processing webhook events at scale and how to address them with an enterprise-grade architecture.

AWS

Discover the key concepts and terms for integrating Stripe in your applications. This guide covers Payment Intents Customer management, Subscription billing, Webhooks, Disputes, Refunds, and the benefits of expanded responses, providing developers with the tools they need to streamline payment processing efficiently.

Getting Started

As a platform, you can accelerate your Connect development with Sandboxes, by replicating your live settings to test out the merchant onboarding flow.

Connect
Sandboxes

With Sandboxes, you can reproduce and troubleshoot errors in your integration without impacting live transactions.

Sandboxes

This blog explores how utilities can enhance customer engagement and capture energy-related revenue by creating an online marketplace.

Connect
Billings
Payment Methods

Explore the critical importance of managing real-time inventory updates for both online marketplaces and physical stores. This blog post details the development of an event-driven architecture designed to synchronize inventory levels with Stripe payment events using AWS cloud services. The demonstration centers around the DevRel Swag Store, showcasing a practical application used at the GOTO Chicago event, which integrates serverless technologies like Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and IoT Core for efficient inventory management. Learn about the challenges of using Stripe metadata for inventory, and discover robust solutions for handling race conditions and implementing dynamic inventory checks. Additionally, understand the trade-offs between using Stripe Payment Links and custom payment processes for real-time stock validation.

Event Destinations
AWS

This article highlights development tips for efficiently developing and operating Stripe at a lower cost, as presented by the Japanese Stripe user community JP_Stripes. We'll focus on content from two events held in September 2024 in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, and Sapporo, Hokkaido.

Connect
Billings
Sandboxes
Community

Integrating Stripe events with AWS CloudWatch Log Groups enhances monitoring by enabling real-time tracking and analysis of Stripe transactions. This setup allows for seamless transfer of Stripe data to CloudWatch via Amazon EventBridge, streamlining payment operations. It provides the tools to visualize, monitor, and respond to events efficiently, optimizing strategic decisions.

Workbench
Payment Methods

Is your Stripe integration ready to scale with your application? In this blog post, explore smart data strategies to enhance performance and security. Learn how to leverage Stripe/'s features, secure web backends, and serverless functions for efficient data management. Discover when to integrate a global CDN and use a separate database for deeper data control, ensuring a seamless user experience.

Event Destinations
AWS
Serverless

Stripe sandboxes enhance test environment management, offering improved functionality over test mode, allowing isolated accounts, multiple developers, and better access control while integrating seamlessly with AWS applications.

Sandboxes
AWS

Stripe has emerged as a vital payment processing platform in the UAE, offering diverse features like automated billing, fraud protection, and multi-currency support, empowering developers to streamline e-commerce operations.

Getting Started

This post discusses integrating the Stripe agent toolkit with large language models (LLMs) to enhance automation workflows, enabling financial services access, metered billing, and streamlined operations across agent frameworks.

Sandboxes

Once your Stripe integration is live, it’s easy to set it and forget it. You can move on and focus on other elements of your application. However, trouble may be brewing behind the scenes. Unless you’ve set up robust logging and alerting in your application you may not be aware of increasing Stripe API error rates which could impact your bottom line

Workbench

This post discusses integrating the Stripe agent toolkit with large language models (LLMs) to enhance automation workflows, enabling financial services access, metered billing, and streamlined operations across agent frameworks.

Workflow

This article shows you how to use Stripe's sandbox to simplify your development process. You'll learn to create isolated test environments, simulate real-world scenarios, and debug your subscription logic efficiently.

Workbench
Billings
Sandboxes

This post introduces how to manage SaaS feature entitlements efficiently using the Stripe API. It explains why it's important to provide multiple plans to your customers and how to differentiate each plan through entitlement management. With the Stripe API, managing entitlements can become more straightforward, allowing you to focus on building and improving your core services.

Workbench
Billings

Event Destinations has begun rolling out to general availability as of 10/30 and will soon be enabled for all accounts. This post explores how to use Stripe Event Destinations and Amazon EventBridge to achieve near infinite customization possibilities for your payment solutions without disrupting your existing integrations.

Event Destinations
AWS

New Stripe API versions come with new, and sometimes breaking, changes which should be evaluated before upgrading. Stripe Sandboxes and Workbench provide tooling to create isolated workspaces to test applications against these new changes.

Workbench

This post explores how to leverage Stripe's A/B testing, its benefits, and how you can use it to boost online sales. You can learn how to improve the conversion rate by optimizing payment options without adding further code.

Workbench
Payment Methods

In this article, you'll learn how to investigate the payment process with just a few clicks on the Stripe dashboard. You'll also see how to obtain event data for testing code related to the 3DS authentication flow.

Workbench
Payment Methods

When onboarding new team members, getting their development environments setup can be very time consuming. Preprovisioned environments with Stripe sandboxes and development containers can speed up their time to productivity.

Sandboxes

Validating payment logic that gets triggered over a period of time is challenging and sometimes results in inelegant solutions.The combination of test clocks and workbench will improve the ability for developers to build and debug recurring payments.

Workbench
Payment Methods

Stripe Sandboxes offer a powerful solution for isolating testing environments, but how you implement them can make all the difference. Pick a sandbox strategy that best suits your organizations development approach and team size.

Sandboxes

Secure your Stripe integrations by ditching unrestricted secret keys—learn how to protect merchant accounts with restricted access API keys and OAuth 2.0, and avoid compliance fees.

Stripe Apps

Discover how to create independent testing environments with Stripe Sandboxes, streamline your development through GitHub automation, and prioritize the security of your API keys to enhance your payment integration process.

Sandboxes

This post demonstrates some more advanced patterns to help you build resilient and robust payment systems to integrate Stripe with your enterprise applications. As your integration grows in complexity and volume, these patterns become crucial for maintaining system stability and providing a smooth user experience.

Workbench
Error Handling

With Workbench, developers now have a bird’s-eye view of their integration which shows many potential issues in one place. This makes it easier to see the impact of each incident, see how often it’s happening, and receive actionable advice for resolving the issue.

Workbench
Error Handling

Test Stripe functionality in an isolated environment

Dev Digest

With Stripe Invoicing, you can create and manage invoices for one-time and recurring payments. Whether caused by infrastructure issues or coding bugs, integration failures do sometimes happen, which can prevent invoices from being paid in a timely manner.

Workbench
Invoicing

This post shows how to use the Stripe Workbench Inspector to examine the lifecycle of a PaymentIntent object.

Workbench
Payment Intents

Stripe Invoicing offers a no-code solution for sending invoices to customers. Because this option handles the complexity of all underlying API calls, developers sometimes struggle to understand the different phases a Stripe invoice goes through, which is problematic when attempting to debug payment failures.

Workbench
Invoicing

Immediate and delayed payments need to be handled differently within an integration. It’s important to understand what events to listen for and properties to inspect for relevant changes.

Workbench
Payment Methods

This blog shows how to find when something is wrong in production, avoid jumping between tabs/docs to find information, and resolving issues quickly in the troubleshooting process, using an AWS integration as a starting point.

Workbench
AWS

For developers building on AWS, you have various choices for processing payments within your application. Most developers choose a payment processing service to handle this part of their application flow, which involves integrating with a third-party vendor outside of the AWS environment.

Workbench
AWS

The performance of an application can directly affect the customer experience. Using the expand feature along with caching techniques, developers can improve the performance of their application by reducing the number of API calls to Stripe.

Workbench

Test Stripe functionality in an isolated environment

Dev Digest