Multiple configurations for your Connect accounts

Learn how to allow your connected accounts to display different sets of payment methods to their buyers in different scenarios.

Use this feature if your platform is using dynamic payment methods and supports setting different types of payment methods for different types of transactions (for example, subscriptions versus one-off checkout) or for different invoice amounts (for example, invoices more than a certain dollar amount can be paid using BNPL).

Create a new payment method configuration
Dashboard

Navigate to the Payment methods settings for your connected accounts in the Stripe Dashboard. This is where you control your platform level “parent” configurations. Your connected accounts receive a “child” configuration for each parent that they can customize within the constraints you set below.

You start with one parent configuration by default. To create an additional configuration, click Add new configuration, and give it a name.

Set the default state for each payment method
Dashboard

You can apply the default setting for each payment method to your new parent configuration, and control what customisations your connected accounts can make. Use the dropdown to select the desired setting:

On by default the payment method is on by default. Connected accounts can turn it on and off.
Off by default the payment method is off by default. Connected accounts can turn it on and off.
Blocked turns the payment method off for all connected accounts. Connected accounts can’t turn it on.

Configure settings for each payment method

Allow your connected accounts to customise their payment methods

Connected accounts with access to the full Stripe Dashboard can turn payment methods on or off if the payment method has been set to either On by default or Off by default. Your connected accounts see the newly created child configuration in their Payment methods settings. Your connected accounts can use the dropdown menu at the top of the page to choose a configuration to edit.

If you want your connected accounts to customise their Payment methods settings from your platform dashboard instead of the Stripe Dashboard, or if you have connected accounts who don’t have Stripe Dashboard access, you can integrate with the Payment Method Configurations API.

Use the Payment Method Configurations API with the connected account ID and child configuration ID to read the current state of a payment method for a specific connected account on that configuration.

{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "{{PAYMENT_METHOD_CONFIGURATION_ID}}"
,
      "object": "payment_method_configuration",
      "name": "My Custom Configuration",
      "active": true,
      "is_default": true,
      "livemode": false,
      "parent": "{{PAYMENT_METHOD_CONFIGURATION_ID}}"
,
      "acss_debit": {
        "available": false,
        "display_preference": {
          "overridable": true,
          "preference": "off",
          "value": "off"
        }
      },
      "affirm": {
        "available": false,
        "display_preference": {
          "overridable": true,
          "preference": "off",
          "value": "off"
        }
      },
      "afterpay_clearpay": {
        "available": false,
        "display_preference": {
          "overridable": true,
          "preference": "off",
          "value": "off"
        }
      },
      ... additional payment methods
    }
  ],
  "has_more": false,
  "url": "/v1/payment_method_configurations"
}

If successful, the return list displays each payment method and includes two parameters outlining availability and display preference.

available is the combination of capability value (active, inactive, pending, or unrequested) and display_preference value.
You can use the available field to know whether a buyer sees this payment method at checkout time. If available is true, that payment method’s capability is active and display_preference is on. If available is false, the payment method either doesn’t have an active capability or the display_preference value is off, and buyers won’t see it at checkout time. To simplify your integration and take advantage of other features, use payment methods that you manage from the Dashboard at checkout, which automatically reads this parameter and shows the right payment methods to buyers.
display_preference has three components: overridable, preference, and value.
- overridable is read-only, and indicates whether the connected account’s preference can override the default set above.
- preference is writable, and stores the connected account’s preference.
- value is read-only, and reflects the effective display_preference value.

Note

Only payment methods that are relevant in the connected account’s country are shown in the API response and are configurable. Check country support.

When a connected account owner takes action to turn on or off a payment method, you can update the display_preference preference attribute. This stores the connected account owner’s preference for that payment method and is used to determine whether buyers see the payment method.

{
  "id": "{{PAYMENT_METHOD_CONFIGURATION_ID}}"
,
  "object": "payment_method_configuration",
  "name": "My Custom Configuration",
  "active": true,
  "is_default": true,
  "livemode": false,
  "acss_debit": {
    "available": false,
    "display_preference": {
      "overridable": true,
      "preference": "off",
      "value": "off"
    }
  },
  "affirm": {
    "available": true,
    "display_preference": {
      "overridable": true,
      "preference": "on",
      "value": "on"
    }
  },
  "afterpay_clearpay": {
    "available": false,
    "display_preference": {
      "overridable": true,
      "preference": "off",
      "value": "off"
    }
  },
  ... additional payment methods
}

When your connected accounts turn on payment methods with the API, Stripe intelligently ranks the payment methods based on the buyer’s location, order size, and other factors to always show the highest converting payment methods first.

Use the configuration in your checkout flow

Pass the parent configuration ID when rendering your checkout flow to use your new configuration. Stripe automatically looks up the child configuration for the associated connected account and uses their customised settings.