149 articles from Stripe.
As AI transforms software economics, the standard revenue playbook is breaking down. Learn how leaders around the world are preparing for agent buyers, updating processes for faster pricing iteration, and building more flexible infrastructure.
Platforms like DoorDash, Meta, and Deel are already paying global workers in stablecoins. We surveyed 2,300 workers in 20 countries to see what's driving stablecoin demand, where the opportunity is highest, and how other platforms can adapt.
Two new product upgrades make it easy for global businesses to manage FX entirely on Stripe. We’re expanding multicurrency settlement to more markets and currencies, and we’re introducing the ability to convert currencies instantly—all on Stripe.
AI companies are undergoing rapid global expansion while achieving unprecedented rates of growth. We analyzed Stripe data to understand where global demand is the strongest, and how companies can build to best capture that demand.
To understand what can influence win rates, we analyzed evidence packets from one million disputes over a 16-week period. Here’s what the data shows and what it means for how you mitigate disputes.
More than 6,000 hospitality executives and operators gathered in San Antonio last week for the HITEC conference. The big topic: whether the industry’s AI investment is actually working. Across four days and over 50 meetings, four trends stood out.
We analyzed spending patterns across the 250 million customers paying with Link. We found that Link customers are spending more on AI than they were three months prior, investing heavily in platforms that let them build with AI.
Our data shows that agents are capable of independently writing code and integrating with APIs like Stripe’s. Yet, many steps adjacent to writing code are still too hard for agents to do on their own. We’re expanding Stripe Projects to solve this.
Stripe’s latest global commerce solutions help all types of businesses localize checkout for every market, increase authorization rates with AI, reduce FX costs with multicurrency support, and automate tax and compliance processes.
We moved quickly to help Stripe businesses take advantage of DCAP and capture interchange savings while protecting their authorization rates. Here’s what we did.
In 2025, solo founders in the top decile generated 61 times the revenue of the median solo founder in their first six months. We analyzed the data to understand what drives that gap.
Radar now blocks high-risk transactions across all supported payment methods; defends against new fraud types; and gives platforms new tools to evaluate and mitigate merchant risk on and off Stripe.
AI is forcing platforms to expand beyond pure software. See how vertical SaaS platforms are using payments, financial services, and agentic commerce to build more durable businesses.
We’re making Stripe even more programmable; protecting and propelling your business with the strength of the Stripe network; and building economic infrastructure for AI.
Link’s wallet for agents gives agents programmatic access to Link, including the ability to generate a one-time-use card or SPT backed by the cards and bank accounts already in your wallet. It’s built on Stripe’s new Issuing for agents.
We analyzed checkout activity across more than 20K businesses, surveyed shoppers and ecommerce leaders, and gathered insights from businesses on the Stripe network to understand what’s changing in online conversion.
Retailers know search and discovery have already shifted. What comes next is less settled. From embedded checkout to emerging third-party surfaces, here’s how ecommerce and AI leaders are integrating agentic commerce.
Radar now helps prevent free trial abuse with just one click. When enabled, Radar predicts the presence of abusive behavior that violates common trial terms, such as repeated trial signup or missed cancellations, with 90% accuracy.
The most sophisticated fraud teams are removing friction for trusted users, embedding fraud detection directly into agentic transactions, and investing in multilayered identity verification to combat deepfakes.
Adaptive Pricing now supports subscriptions in 150+ countries, with Stripe handling currency conversion. In an A/B test across 1.5M subscription checkouts, businesses saw 4.7% higher conversion and 5.4% higher LTV per session.
We’re launching the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), an open standard, internet-native way for agents to pay—co-authored by Tempo and Stripe. Businesses on Stripe can accept payments over MPP in a few lines of code using our PaymentIntents API.
A future where we buy with AI agents feels inevitable. Making it actually work is harder. These lessons from the first wave of agentic commerce are meant to help sellers decide what to tackle, avoid common bottlenecks, and get ahead of what’s coming.
From November 2025 to February 2026, our models detected 6.2x more abusive free trials. This is part of a shift toward first-party fraud, where users abuse policies by setting up multiple accounts, cycling through free trials, or exploiting refunds.
Stripe is now the first and only provider that supports both agentic network tokens and buy now, pay later tokens in agentic commerce through a single primitive.
State-of-the-art LLMs can solve many scoped coding tasks, but can they execute end-to-end software projects? To find out, we built the Stripe integration benchmark: an agentic test of real API integration work in a production-realistic environment.
Together, Metronome and Stripe are building the most flexible and complete billing solution on the market—one that works for everyone, from engineers in a garage figuring out their business model to public companies monetizing at global scale.
The majority of retailers are actively implementing, or plan to implement, agentic commerce. They are refining their product catalog strategy to launch faster and investing in their own agentic shopping experiences.
2025 was a breakout year for early-stage startups, as founders generated revenue faster than ever. Three shifts stand out: customer bases are becoming more global, time-to-revenue has compressed, and founders are turning their focus to AI agents.
In a new study, we found a strong causal relationship between accepting financing and growing revenue on Stripe. Learn which businesses are most likely to benefit, and how greater access to financing could drive significant GDP growth.
Our Agentic Commerce Suite gets your business agent-ready. It enables you to sell on AI agents by making your products discoverable, simplifying your checkout, and allowing you to accept agentic payments via a single integration.
Leading SaaS platforms across industries—from Squarespace to Jobber—are using embedded components to ship payments and finance features with minimal code. We analyzed the data to see which types of platforms are getting the most value.
We recently launched three new features that give you more control to fine-tune your risk and compliance strategy, allowing you to use more of Stripe’s data to inform your approach. Here’s what’s new.
We recently released a series of improvements to expand multiprocessor support, give you more control over your billing and invoicing models, and better tailor your pricing for AI products. Here’s everything that’s new.
Last week, Google announced that Android apps selling digital goods to US customers can now process in-app payments using third-party payment providers. Here’s a closer look at our solutions for app developers.
As businesses expand globally, stablecoins can help them reach a broader international audience more cost-effectively. Now we’re extending these benefits to subscription-based businesses by launching recurring payments with stablecoins.
Last week, we shared the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), a new open standard that enables programmatic agentic flows. Here are some of the other steps Stripe is taking to build agentic commerce solutions for AI platforms and businesses.
Open Issuance is a new platform that allows any business to launch and manage its own stablecoin. With its own stablecoin, a business can control its product experience, mint and burn without limits, and earn rewards from reserves.
We announced new agentic commerce capabilities, modular infrastructure for all parts of the crypto stack, including the ability for you to collect subscription payments using stablecoins, and a lot more.
Today, we announced that Stripe is powering OpenAI’s new commerce experience, Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, and we released the Agentic Commerce Protocol, a new open standard that enables programmatic commerce flows between AI agents and businesses.
Our recent survey of 2,000+ global business leaders showed that the fastest-growing companies are approaching pricing differently than their peers. Here are some of the strategies behind their success.
While businesses are rapidly building AI products, monetization remains a challenge. In this post, we share a framework for building a successful pricing strategy with key decision points on charge metrics, billing models, and guardrails.
Our analysis showed that even with very high two-factor authentication trigger rates—which traditionally add friction to the checkout flow—France, the UK, and Japan still maintain high conversion rates.
Certain industries and business models are embracing AI-powered fraud tools at significantly higher rates. Understanding which types of companies are leading this shift—and why—offers insights into which strategies are most effective.
AI companies are rewriting the rules of growth. In our new report, *Indexing the AI economy*, we explore the latest trends and strategies in the AI space.
Stripe Tax is now an all-in-one global tax compliance solution, after adding international registration and filing to round out its tax calculation and collection features.
Last month at Stripe Sessions, we announced Global Payouts, which is part of our biggest-ever upgrade to Stripe to make it less expensive, complex, and time-consuming for you to fund, store, and pay out in multiple currencies.
With Stripe Treasury, businesses in 101 countries can now easily access a dollar-denominated stablecoin balance to store and move money on crypto or established financial rails.
Last week at Stripe Sessions, we introduced our Payments Intelligence Suite, which uses AI to make hundreds of automated, real-time decisions to maximize your profits—with no effort required.
We announced the ability to manage multiple payment providers from within Stripe, two new extensibility primitives, support for turnkey consumer issuing programs, new money management capabilities, and a lot more.
To help you adapt your fraud prevention strategy to the changing set of payment method preferences, we’re extending Radar’s fraud protection to cover ACH and SEPA payments.
Learn about some of the key decisions we made, and lessons we learned, as we ran a statistically significant experiment to measure the global impact of 50+ payment methods.
We have data that shows when at least one additional relevant payment method beyond cards is dynamically surfaced, businesses on average see a meaningful increase in conversion and revenue.
Last month, we improved our AI tooling to give you even more flexibility when combating fraud. Now, Radar’s new rules combine our machine learning models with the issuer’s CVC and postal code response in real time.
The Optimized Checkout Suite uses AI to personalize the checkout experience—dynamically adjusting everything from payment method ordering to fraud interventions in order to maximize conversion and boost revenue.
Founders can now accept payments immediately after incorporation, while Atlas handles the IRS filings in the background.
Stripe’s AI-powered Adaptive Acceptance increases payment acceptance by recovering false declines. Recent AI upgrades improved transaction retry accuracy, leading to a record $6 billion recovered in 2024—a 60% year-over-year increase.
The strategic importance of billing credits is only growing. That’s why we recently incorporated a new credits feature into Stripe Billing, enabling businesses to offer their customers both promotional and paid credits with flexibility and control.
We created a usage-based billing system with ultrahigh throughput; reliable, real-time events processing; and support for complex pricing models. Doing so required reimagining how to build a highly scaled, highly reliable event streaming platform.
With our slice monitoring program, we use machine learning to spot small pockets of performance declines amid the sea of global payments.
While Radar’s models predict the likelihood of fraud, we needed a new way to recognize verification attacks that were causing higher-than-average authorization rates. Learn about our three-layered approach to combatting this new fraud trend.
