Essential tasks
Complete the essential tasks to set up your marketplace and enable your connected accounts.
Connect supports many methods of integration to define the interactions between you, your connected accounts, and Stripe. You get to decide:
- How funds from purchases move through your platform account and Stripe.
- Which accounts Stripe uses to cover losses from refunds and disputes.
- Whether connected accounts interact with Stripe directly or through your own site.
- How to charge connected accounts for using your platform.
If you’re building a marketplace where you connect sellers and buyers, collect payment for a transaction, and then pay the seller their share of each transaction, this guide might help simplify some of your decisions by providing a best practice set of integration steps.
Before you begin
- Register your platform.
- Add business details to activate your account.
- Complete your platform profile.
- Customize your brand settings. Add a business name, icon, and brand color.
Essential task summary
Each essential task represents a step in the process of building your marketplace.
Create a connected account for each seller or vendor on your marketplace and prefill it with relevant information.
Set up access to the Stripe Dashboard to enable your connected accounts to view transactions.
Send an Account Link to your connected accounts so they can complete the process of onboarding to Stripe.
Enable the payment methods you want to support on your marketplace.
Process payments using either destination charges or separate charges and transfers.
Collect application fees from your connected accounts for each transaction in your marketplace.
Manage how and when to make payouts to your connected accounts.
Manage the funds flow of activity that reverses completed payments.