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Provide a platform where merchants accept payments directly from their customers through your integration.
As a software as a service (SaaS) platform, you extend your integration of Stripe products to your merchant connected accounts. Those merchants can access Stripe through your platform to accept payments from their own customers and receive payouts from their Stripe balance.
Monetisation
A SaaS platform can design its revenue strategy using a referrer or wholesale model.
Referrer model
Your platform refers merchants to Stripe to process payments and use other financial products. In this model, the platform’s connected accounts:
- Are the merchant of record for payments from their customers.
- Pay Stripe fees.
- Assume liability for their negative balances.
- Process payments as direct charges.
Stripe doesn’t charge your platform in this model and you can earn revenue by:
- Charging your connected accounts a subscription fee for using your platform.
- Charging your connected accounts an application fee per transaction.
- Qualifying for revenue share from Stripe when your connected accounts meet product activation targets.
Reseller model
Your platform purchases Stripe payments and products from Stripe, then resells those services to its connected accounts. In this model, the platform’s connected accounts:
- Don’t pay Stripe fees.
- Are the merchant of record for payments from their customers.
- Are liable to the platform, not Stripe, for their negative balances.
- Process payments as direct charges or destination on-behalf-of (OBO) charges.
Stripe charges your platform in this model and you can earn revenue by:
- Charging your connected accounts a subscription fee for using your platform.
- Charging your connected accounts an application fee per transaction. Use the platform pricing tool to automatically set pricing logic for the application fees you charge your connected accounts.