Creates a meter event session to send usage on the high-throughput meter event stream. Authentication tokens are only valid for 15 minutes, so you will need to create a new meter event session when your token expires.

Parameters

No parameters.

Returns

Response attributes

  • idstring

    The unique id of this auth session.

  • objectstring, value is "v2.billing.meter_event_session"

    String representing the object’s type. Objects of the same type share the same value of the object field.

  • authentication_tokenstring

    The authentication token for this session. Use this token when calling the high-throughput meter event API.

  • createdtimestamp

    The creation time of this session.

  • expires_attimestamp

    The time at which this session will expire.

  • livemodeboolean

    Has the value true if the object exists in live mode or the value false if the object exists in test mode.

POST /v2/billing/meter_event_session
curl -X POST https://api.stripe.com/v2/billing/meter_event_session \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {{YOUR_API_KEY}}{{YOUR_API_KEY}}" \
-H "Stripe-Version: 2024-12-03.preview-v2"
Response
{
"id": "<AUTH_SESSION_ID>",
"livemode": "false",
"object": "v2.billing.meter_event_session",
"authentication_token": "token_12345678",
"created": "2024-06-01T12:00:00.000Z",
"expires_at": "2024-06-01T12:15:00.000Z"
}

Creates meter events. Events are processed asynchronously, including validation. Requires a meter event session for authentication. Supports up to 10,000 requests per second in livemode. For even higher rate-limits, contact sales.

Parameters

  • eventsarray of objectsRequired

    List of meter events to include in the request.

Returns

Response attributes

No response attributes.

Error Codes
401billing_meter_event_session_expired

The temporary session token has expired.

POST /v2/billing/meter_event_stream
curl -X POST https://meter-events.stripe.com/v2/billing/meter_event_stream \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {{SESSION AUTH TOKEN}}" \
-H "Stripe-Version: 2024-12-03.preview-v2" \
--json '{
"events": [
{
"identifier": "idmp_12345678",
"event_name": "ai_search_api",
"timestamp": "2024-06-01T12:00:00.000Z",
"payload": {
"stripe_customer_id": "cus_12345678",
"value": "25"
}
}
]
}'
Response
{}

A billing meter event summary represents an aggregated view of a customer’s billing meter events within a specified timeframe. It indicates how much usage was accrued by a customer for that period.

Indicates the billing credit balance for billing credits granted to a customer.

A credit balance transaction is a resource representing a transaction (either a credit or a debit) against an existing credit grant.

You can now model subscriptions more flexibly using the Prices API. It replaces the Plans API and is backwards compatible to simplify your migration.

Plans define the base price, currency, and billing cycle for recurring purchases of products. Products help you track inventory or provisioning, and plans help you track pricing. Different physical goods or levels of service should be represented by products, and pricing options should be represented by plans. This approach lets you change prices without having to change your provisioning scheme.

For example, you might have a single “gold” product that has plans for $10/month, $100/year, €9/month, and €90/year.

Related guides: Set up a subscription and more about products and prices.

A Quote is a way to model prices that you’d like to provide to a customer. Once accepted, it will automatically create an invoice, subscription or subscription schedule.

Subscription items allow you to create customer subscriptions with more than one plan, making it easy to represent complex billing relationships.

Test Clocks Test helper

A test clock enables deterministic control over objects in testmode. With a test clock, you can create objects at a frozen time in the past or future, and advance to a specific future time to observe webhooks and state changes. After the clock advances, you can either validate the current state of your scenario (and test your assumptions), change the current state of your scenario (and test more complex scenarios), or keep advancing forward in time.

Usage records allow you to report customer usage and metrics to Stripe for metered billing of subscription prices.

Related guide: Metered billing

This is our legacy usage-based billing API. See the updated usage-based billing docs.

A usage record summary represents an aggregated view of how much usage was accrued for a subscription item within a subscription billing period.

Financing Offer Preview feature

This is an object representing an offer of financing from Stripe Capital to a Connect subaccount.

Financing Summary Preview feature

A financing object describes an account’s current financing state. Used by Connect platforms to read the state of Capital offered to their connected accounts.

This is an object representing a Stripe account. You can retrieve it to see properties on the account like its current requirements or if the account is enabled to make live charges or receive payouts.

For accounts where controller.requirement_collection is application, which includes Custom accounts, the properties below are always returned.

For accounts where controller.requirement_collection is stripe, which includes Standard and Express accounts, some properties are only returned until you create an Account Link or Account Session to start Connect Onboarding. Learn about the differences between accounts.

An AccountSession allows a Connect platform to grant access to a connected account in Connect embedded components.

We recommend that you create an AccountSession each time you need to display an embedded component to your user. Do not save AccountSessions to your database as they expire relatively quickly, and cannot be used more than once.

Related guide: Connect embedded components

When you collect a transaction fee on top of a charge made for your user (using Connect), an Application Fee object is created in your account. You can list, retrieve, and refund application fees.

Related guide: Collecting application fees

Application Fee Refund objects allow you to refund an application fee that has previously been created but not yet refunded. Funds will be refunded to the Stripe account from which the fee was originally collected.

Related guide: Refunding application fees

This is an object representing a capability for a Stripe account.

Related guide: Account capabilities

Stripe needs to collect certain pieces of information about each account created. These requirements can differ depending on the account’s country. The Country Specs API makes these rules available to your integration.

You can also view the information from this API call as an online guide.

External bank accounts are financial accounts associated with a Stripe platform’s connected accounts for the purpose of transferring funds to or from the connected account’s Stripe balance.

External account cards are debit cards associated with a Stripe platform’s connected accounts for the purpose of transferring funds to or from the connected accounts Stripe balance.

This is an object representing a person associated with a Stripe account.

A platform cannot access a person for an account where account.controller.requirement_collection is stripe, which includes Standard and Express accounts, after creating an Account Link or Account Session to start Connect onboarding.

See the Standard onboarding or Express onboarding documentation for information about prefilling information and account onboarding steps. Learn more about handling identity verification with the API.

To top up your Stripe balance, you create a top-up object. You can retrieve individual top-ups, as well as list all top-ups. Top-ups are identified by a unique, random ID.

Related guide: Topping up your platform account

A Transfer object is created when you move funds between Stripe accounts as part of Connect.

Before April 6, 2017, transfers also represented movement of funds from a Stripe account to a card or bank account. This behavior has since been split out into a Payout object, with corresponding payout endpoints. For more information, read about the transfer/payout split.

Related guide: Creating separate charges and transfers

Stripe Connect platforms can reverse transfers made to a connected account, either entirely or partially, and can also specify whether to refund any related application fees. Transfer reversals add to the platform’s balance and subtract from the destination account’s balance.

Reversing a transfer that was made for a destination charge is allowed only up to the amount of the charge. It is possible to reverse a transfer_group transfer only if the destination account has enough balance to cover the reversal.

Related guide: Reverse transfers

Secret Store is an API that allows Stripe Apps developers to securely persist secrets for use by UI Extensions and app backends.

The primary resource in Secret Store is a secret. Other apps can’t view secrets created by an app. Additionally, secrets are scoped to provide further permission control.

All Dashboard users and the app backend share account scoped secrets. Use the account scope for secrets that don’t change per-user, like a third-party API key.

A user scoped secret is accessible by the app backend and one specific Dashboard user. Use the user scope for per-user secrets like per-user OAuth tokens, where different users might have different permissions.

Related guide: Store data between page reloads

An early fraud warning indicates that the card issuer has notified us that a charge may be fraudulent.

Related guide: Early fraud warnings

Reviews can be used to supplement automated fraud detection with human expertise.

Learn more about Radar and reviewing payments here.

Value lists allow you to group values together which can then be referenced in rules.

Related guide: Default Stripe lists

Value list items allow you to add specific values to a given Radar value list, which can then be used in rules.

Related guide: Managing list items

An Issuing Cardholder object represents an individual or business entity who is issued cards.

Related guide: How to create a cardholder

As a card issuer, you can dispute transactions that the cardholder does not recognize, suspects to be fraudulent, or has other issues with.

Related guide: Issuing disputes

Funding Instructions contain reusable bank account and routing information. Push funds to these addresses via bank transfer to top up Issuing Balances.

A Physical Bundle represents the bundle of physical items - card stock, carrier letter, and envelope - that is shipped to a cardholder when you create a physical card.

Tokens Preview feature

An issuing token object is created when an issued card is added to a digital wallet. As a card issuer, you can view and manage these tokens through Stripe.

A Connection Token is used by the Stripe Terminal SDK to connect to a reader.

Related guide: Fleet management

Terminal Hardware Product Preview feature

A TerminalHardwareProduct is a category of hardware devices that are generally similar, but may have variations depending on the country it’s shipped to.

TerminalHardwareSKUs represent variations within the same Product (for example, a country specific device). For example, WisePOS E is a TerminalHardwareProduct and a WisePOS E - US and WisePOS E - UK are TerminalHardwareSKUs.

Terminal Hardware SKU Preview feature

A TerminalHardwareSKU represents a SKU for Terminal hardware. A SKU is a representation of a product available for purchase, containing information such as the name, price, and images.

A TerminalHardwareShipping represents a Shipping Method for Terminal hardware. A Shipping Method is a country-specific representation of a way to ship hardware, containing information such as the country, name, and expected delivery date.

Stripe Treasury provides users with a container for money called a FinancialAccount that is separate from their Payments balance. FinancialAccounts serve as the source and destination of Treasury’s money movement APIs.

Encodes whether a FinancialAccount has access to a particular Feature, with a status enum and associated status_details. Stripe or the platform can control Features via the requested field.

TransactionEntries represent individual units of money movements within a single Transaction.

Use OutboundTransfers to transfer funds from a FinancialAccount to a PaymentMethod belonging to the same entity. To send funds to a different party, use OutboundPayments instead. You can send funds over ACH rails or through a domestic wire transfer to a user’s own external bank account.

Simulate OutboundTransfer state changes with the /v1/test_helpers/treasury/outbound_transfers endpoints. These methods can only be called on test mode objects.

Related guide: Moving money with Treasury using OutboundTransfer objects

ReceivedCredits represent funds sent to a FinancialAccount (for example, via ACH or wire). These money movements are not initiated from the FinancialAccount.

ReceivedDebits represent funds pulled from a FinancialAccount. These are not initiated from the FinancialAccount.

You can reverse some ReceivedCredits depending on their network and source flow. Reversing a ReceivedCredit leads to the creation of a new object known as a CreditReversal.

You can reverse some ReceivedDebits depending on their network and source flow. Reversing a ReceivedDebit leads to the creation of a new object known as a DebitReversal.

A feature represents a monetizable ability or functionality in your system. Features can be assigned to products, and when those products are purchased, Stripe will create an entitlement to the feature for the purchasing customer.

A product_feature represents an attachment between a feature and a product. When a product is purchased that has a feature attached, Stripe will create an entitlement to the feature for the purchasing customer.

An active entitlement describes access to a feature for a customer.

If you have scheduled a Sigma query, you’ll receive a sigma.scheduled_query_run.created webhook each time the query runs. The webhook contains a ScheduledQueryRun object, which you can use to retrieve the query results.

The Report Run object represents an instance of a report type generated with specific run parameters. Once the object is created, Stripe begins processing the report. When the report has finished running, it will give you a reference to a file where you can retrieve your results. For an overview, see API Access to Reports.

Note that certain report types can only be run based on your live-mode data (not test-mode data), and will error when queried without a live-mode API key.

The Report Type resource corresponds to a particular type of report, such as the “Activity summary” or “Itemized payouts” reports. These objects are identified by an ID belonging to a set of enumerated values. See API Access to Reports documentation for those Report Type IDs, along with required and optional parameters.

Note that certain report types can only be run based on your live-mode data (not test-mode data), and will error when queried without a live-mode API key.

Describes an owner of an account.

A Financial Connections Session is the secure way to programmatically launch the client-side Stripe.js modal that lets your users link their accounts.

A Transaction represents a real transaction that affects a Financial Connections Account balance.

A Tax Calculation allows you to calculate the tax to collect from your customer.

Related guide: Calculate tax in your custom payment flow

A Tax Registration lets us know that your business is registered to collect tax on payments within a region, enabling you to automatically collect tax.

Stripe doesn’t register on your behalf with the relevant authorities when you create a Tax Registration object. For more information on how to register to collect tax, see our guide.

Related guide: Using the Registrations API

You can use Tax Settings to manage configurations used by Stripe Tax calculations.

Related guide: Using the Settings API

A VerificationSession guides you through the process of collecting and verifying the identities of your users. It contains details about the type of verification, such as what verification check to perform. Only create one VerificationSession for each verification in your system.

A VerificationSession transitions through multiple statuses throughout its lifetime as it progresses through the verification flow. The VerificationSession contains the user’s verified data after verification checks are complete.

Related guide: The Verification Sessions API

A VerificationReport is the result of an attempt to collect and verify data from a user. The collection of verification checks performed is determined from the type and options parameters used. You can find the result of each verification check performed in the appropriate sub-resource: document, id_number, selfie.

Each VerificationReport contains a copy of any data collected by the user as well as reference IDs which can be used to access collected images through the FileUpload API. To configure and create VerificationReports, use the VerificationSession API.

Related guide: Accessing verification results.

A Crypto Onramp Session represents your customer’s session as they purchase cryptocurrency through Stripe. Once payment is successful, Stripe will fulfill the delivery of cryptocurrency to your user’s wallet and contain a reference to the crypto transaction ID.

You can create an onramp session on your server and embed the widget on your frontend. Alternatively, you can redirect your users to the standalone hosted onramp.

Related guide: Integrate the onramp

Crypto Onramp Quotes are estimated quotes for onramp conversions into all the different cryptocurrencies on different networks. The Quotes API allows you to display quotes in your product UI before directing the user to the onramp widget.

Related guide: Quotes API

Orders represent your intent to purchase a particular Climate product. When you create an order, the payment is deducted from your merchant balance.

A Climate product represents a type of carbon removal unit available for reservation. You can retrieve it to see the current price and availability.

Instructs Stripe to make a request on your behalf using the destination URL. The destination URL is activated by Stripe at the time of onboarding. Stripe verifies requests with your credentials provided during onboarding, and injects card details from the payment_method into the request.

Stripe redacts all sensitive fields and headers, including authentication credentials and card numbers, before storing the request and response data in the forwarding Request object, which are subject to a 30-day retention period.

You can provide a Stripe idempotency key to make sure that requests with the same key result in only one outbound request. The Stripe idempotency key provided should be unique and different from any idempotency keys provided on the underlying third-party request.

Forwarding Requests are synchronous requests that return a response or time out according to Stripe’s limits.

Related guide: Forward card details to third-party API endpoints.

You can configure webhook endpoints via the API to be notified about events that happen in your Stripe account or connected accounts.

Most users configure webhooks from the dashboard, which provides a user interface for registering and testing your webhook endpoints.

Related guide: Setting up webhooks