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Last year, we launched Shared Payment Tokens (SPTs), a payment primitive for agentic commerce that lets agents initiate payments with a customer’s permission and preferred payment method, without exposing the underlying credentials. We’ve seen widespread adoption of SPTs by lead…
State-of-the-art LLMs can now solve a majority of scoped coding problems, from function implementation to file-level refactoring. But there’s still an unquantified gap between that coding capability and the ability to fully autonomously manage software engineering projects. Real…
Last week, Stripe finalized its acquisition of Metronome, the industry leader in usage-based billing. Over the past two years, we’ve extended Stripe Billing to provide first class support for usage-based and hybrid billing models. Thousands of customers, including some of the fa…
Rob Frieman, CIO of URBN, and Maia Josebachvili, Stripe’s chief revenue officer of AI, during their NRF session on how URBN meets shoppers where they are. Agentic commerce dominated the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual conference in New York earlier this week. NRF launc…
2025 was a breakout year for early-stage startups: founders launched more companies and generated revenue faster than ever. Delaware C corporations grew an average of 41% year over year for the past 6 months, according to the Delaware Division of Corporations. US investors deplo…
We hear consistently from our SMB customers that access to financing is a primary obstacle to growth, and that they’re not getting what they need from traditional lenders. We launched Stripe Capital to help fill this gap. Now, to quantify the impact, we completed a two-year rand…
In September, we announced the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), the first live standard that enables programmatic commerce flows between AI agents and businesses. While ACP creates industry standards for agentic transactions, your business still faces a heavy integration lift to…
Last year, we introduced Stripe Connect embedded components: prebuilt, production-ready UI modules that platforms can drop in with minimal code. The interfaces provide platforms with plug-and-play payments and finance workflows, from onboarding customers and supporting localized…
Platforms tell us that managing risk and compliance often feels like choosing between speed and safety. You need to onboard businesses quickly so they can start using your product, but you also need to screen thoroughly for fraud. You want to expand globally, but each new market…
Atlassian, Figma, Instacart, and fast-growing AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA use Stripe Billing to power diverse and complex revenue models. We’ve worked closely with these users to make Billing a complete, configurable platform for all business types—ensurin…
Next-day settlement Access your funds in 1 business day. With next-day settlement, funds from your domestic transactions (except ACH direct debits) are available in your Stripe balance on the next business day. If you’re on an automatic daily payout schedule, Stripe sends eligib…
Reduce cart abandonment and increase conversion with local buyers by offering them their preferred real-time payment method. Capture cost savings on transaction fees compared to cards. Adapt to customer preferences and expand into new markets with access to 100+ payment methods…