Connect integration guide

Send connected accounts to a Stripe-hosted onboarding flow. Stripe-hosted onboarding allows you to redirect your user to Stripe to complete the onboarding process in a co-branded interface.

Best for when you want to launch quickly with the lowest integration effort:

• Connected accounts leave your site and are redirected to Stripe to complete the flow.
• Co-branding with Stripe and limited options to customize.
• Stripe handles all of the onboarding flow logic.
• Automatically supports 46+ countries and 14 languages.

Provide access to the Stripe Dashboard to connected accounts.

The Stripe Dashboard provides connected accounts with a full suite of functionality, including viewing payouts, managing refunds, handling disputes, accessing reporting, and processing charges on their own. Users can sign into their Stripe Dashboard at any time and can access the Dashboard by visiting Stripe directly. Users have access to Stripe support and Stripe can reach out and communicate with users about their account.

Use the Stripe Dashboard when:

• Your users need access to powerful payments workflows and advanced user management features.
• You prefer Stripe to manage risk of loss and take responsibility for negative balance liability on connected accounts.
• You are comfortable with Stripe branding and limited platform co-branding.

You can always add embedded components to your own website in tandem with providing access to the Stripe Dashboard.

A direct charge is a customer payment made directly to a connected account. Customers directly transact with your connected account, often unaware of your platform’s existence.

This charge type is best suited for platforms providing software as a service. For example, Shopify provides tools for building online storefronts, and Thinkific enables educators to sell online courses.

Stripe collects Stripe fees directly from your connected accounts. You can collect an optional application fee when you create the direct charge.

Stripe monitors risk signals on connected accounts, implements risk interventions on connected accounts in response to observed signals, and seeks to recover negative balances from your connected accounts.

For most software as a service platforms, this is the best default choice, especially for those that are new to embedding payments:

• Stripe monitors your connected accounts for credit and fraud risk, as well as protection against risk of loss in the event of negative balances attributed to business risk.
• Stripe handles all the end to end communications and remediations directly with your connected accounts through hosted flows or embedded components.