Customize the Express Dashboard

You can display your platform’s brand name, icon, and customize theming in the Express Dashboard.

Access your Express branding settings, enter your platform’s business_name, upload your platform’s icon, and customize your theming settings. When satisfied with the preview, save your changes. If you already saved your brand information before reading this guide, skip this step.

You can configure the Express Dashboard features available to your connected accounts by using the Express features settings.

If you turn off a feature in your Express Dashboard settings, your connected accounts don’t see it in the Express Dashboard. Before you go live, we recommend configuring your Express Dashboard settings in a testing environment and previewing them with a test connected account.

By default, the Transactions list on the Express Dashboard displays generic descriptions for charges and transfers (for example: Payment on {YOUR_PLATFORM}).

First, determine which type of charge your platform uses. The two recommended charge types for Express connected accounts are Destination Charges and Separate Charges and Transfers.

After you determine the charge type, use the following instructions to update your integration.

Destination charges

To update the description on a payment object that’s visible to your platform’s users, you need to use the Stripe API. This applies to all platforms that use destination charges.

1. Find the existing transfer object you created for an account by finding the latest charge created on the PaymentIntent.
2. Use the charge object to find the transfer object associated with the charge.
3. Use the transfer object to find the destination_payment ID that exists on the transfer.
4. Call the Update Charge API to update the description on the destination payment using the destination_payment ID.

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/charges/
{{PAYMENT_ID}} \
  -u "
sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2
:" \
  -H "Stripe-Account: 
{{CONNECTED_ACCOUNT_ID}}
" \
  -d description="My custom description"

This description becomes visible on the charge after you’ve written this field.

Learn more about creating destination charges on your platform.

Separate charges and transfers

To update the description on a payment object that’s visible to your platform’s users, you need to use the Stripe API. This applies to platforms that use separate charges and transfers.

1. Use the transfer object to find the destination_payment ID that exists on the transfer.
2. Call the Update Charge API to update the description on the destination payment using the destination_payment ID found in the previous step.

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/charges/
{{PAYMENT_ID}} \
  -u "
sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2
:" \
  -H "Stripe-Account: 
{{CONNECTED_ACCOUNT_ID}}
" \
  -d description="My custom description"

This description becomes visible on the charge after you’ve written this field.

Learn more about creating separate charges and transfers.

Use your platform Dashboard to manage communications that your connected accounts receive from Stripe.

Emails

Stripe occasionally sends emails to your connected accounts to provide information and keep them in compliance. You can customize these emails on the Connect Emails settings page.

SMS messages

By default, when a connected account using the Express Dashboard receives its first payout, Stripe notifies them with an SMS message. You can disable or re-enable these notifications on the Connect SMS settings page.