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# Stripe

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> Stripe offers payment processing APIs for online commerce, helping businesses accept payments and expand with AI features.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 3324 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Stripe?

Stripe is used by online retailers, SaaS companies, marketplaces, AI companies, platforms, crypto businesses, creator economy platforms, and global enterprises.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 3324 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support Software | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Stripe
- **Location**: San Francisco, US
- **Founded**: 2009

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing model**: Usage Based
- **Pricing Details**: Access a complete payments platform with simple, pay-as-you-go pricing that begins at 2.9% + 30¢ per successful card charge. Get everything you need to manage payments plus hundreds of feature updates per year with no monthly, setup, or hidden fees.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- **Available Countries**: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan and 21 more

## Features

- ACH Payment Processing
- API
- Billing & Invoicing
- Credit Card Processing
- Data Security
- Debit/Credit Card Processing
- Electronic Payments
- In-Person Payments
- Mobile Access
- Mobile Payments
- Multi-Currency
- Multiple Payment Options
- PCI Compliance Software
- Payment Fraud Prevention
- Point of Sale (POS)
- Receipt Management
- Recurring/Subscription Billing
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Third-Party Integrations
- Transaction Management
- Transaction Monitoring

## Integrations (109 total)

- 123FormBuilder
- ABC Glofox
- Accelevents
- Accelo
- AccountsPortal
- Attribution
- Avalara
- Avaza
- Baremetrics
- BigCommerce
- Bizness Apps
- Blinksale
- Bookinglayer
- Bookwhen
- ChargeKeep

... and 94 more integrations

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base Software
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat

## Category

- [Payment Processing Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/30232/payment-processing/software)

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## Reviews

### "Professional payment solution for businesses and ecommerces" — 5.0/5

> **Roger** | *January 16, 2026* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: I like how professional and reliable it is for online payments. When I create an ecommerce, I recommend to my clients as a first option stripe, because it is easy to set up credit card payments and how affordable are they fees
> 
> **Cons**: Setup can be technical. It is not very beginner friendly and I need to do a follow up when clients want to start a new account.
> 
> My experience is very positive so far. It is a strong payment platform for businesses and online services.

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### "Stripe for online payments for business" — 4.0/5

> **Bill** | *January 4, 2026* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It works well for our online payment services. It provides you notice via email when someone makes a purchase.
> 
> **Cons**: It costing is kind of high in our opinion. We pay close to 4% fees off the total cost of the service.
> 
> We have been using stripe fir over 9 years and never had any major issues. We only uad a snall issue and the team at stripe helped and cleared it right away. Other than the cost we are happy with it.

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### "Scalable Payment Solution for Small Online Businesses" — 4.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *March 18, 2026* | Retail | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: What I like the most about Stripe is its global reach and that it’s built to grow with your business.
> 
> **Cons**: I feel the customer support can improve their service and their response rate should be faster. Us business owners, need reliable and fast support.
> 
> In general, I haven't had any issues with stripe. It works great for online businesses and it gives you control over how your payment system works.

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### "Integrated well to collect payments, easy to use\!" — 4.0/5

> **Renata** | *January 27, 2026* | Alternative Medicine | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Integrated well with the platforms I was using to collect payments, so I appreciated not having to go to a separate website to collect payments.
> 
> **Cons**: Transaction fees are not ideal to pay, I felt stripe was on the higher side but it wasn't a deterrent to using it

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### "Stripe works\!" — 5.0/5

> **Andrew** | *December 7, 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: This is super easy to integrate very well with a lot of websites to take online payments through a shopify or woocommerce store.
> 
> **Cons**: Integrating stripe to mobile app can be more steep and demand a lot of framework use. I’m not an user but I know transaction fees are not the best on the market.
> 
> It help store to take credit card, handling users payment informations and get paid quickly. Implementation on shopify is simple, just a few clicks.

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