We’ve spent hundreds of hours interviewing founders and development teams at high-growth companies to learn how they manage their API integration with Stripe. They all told us the same thing: while they love our docs and code snippets, they wish they could get guidance and debugging tools in situ, as they build, without having to bounce between various tabs. In particular, developers want to maximize their flow state. The conditions to achieve flow state are well-known: knowing what to do, being free from distractions, and having a clear challenge along with the right set of skills and tools. Stripe Workbench is our new home for developers within the Dashboard that helps you debug, monitor, and grow your Stripe integration. Workbench provides an at-a-glance summary of your integration’s behavior so you can explore your account’s API and event history, prototype and build new integrations, and receive critical account alerts. It’s now available for everyone, on every Dashboard surface, with a single keystroke. As you’re building, Workbench highlights errors and helps you resolve them, and it recommends ways to improve the efficiency of your integration. If you want to learn more about Workbench, start by reading our docs. And if you have any product feedback, please create a new post in the Workbench category on Stripe Insiders.
— Michael Glukhovsky and Tomer Elmalem Developer Products, Stripe
Updates
Tap to Pay on iPhone: Tap to Pay on iPhone is now available with Stripe in Australia, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. With Tap to Pay on iPhone and the Stripe Terminal SDK, you can accept in-person contactless payments with a compatible iPhone—without extra hardware. With Tap to Pay on iPhone, every transaction is protected by the security and privacy features built into the iPhone.
Sandboxes: Sandboxes is now in public beta. Create multiple isolated testing environments, test Stripe functionality, collaborate more easily, and experiment with new features—all without affecting your live integration.
Event Destinations: Event Destinations is also now in public beta. Set up an event destination to send Stripe events to webhook endpoints and Amazon EventBridge.
Community
If you’re building on Stripe Tax, we have some new videos that will help make your integration experience much smoother. We’ve also been focused on creating a better developer experience across our tooling and open source extensions, so you can keep building with ease. Learn how the Stripe Tax API records completed transactions and reversals. Automate taxes on a subscription offering. Level up your workflow with the Stripe CLI. Use Stripe Payment Links for no-code payments. Bring together authentication and payments with AirBadge.
— Cecil Phillip Developer Advocate, Stripe