Customer self-service with a customer portal
Allow your customers to manage their own accounts and subscriptions.
Provide self-service functions to your customers by setting up a customer portal. You can configure it entirely in the Dashboard, or implement more powerful features, such as multiple configurations for different customers or for connected accounts, using the API.
You can fully automate many of your customer interactions by combining a customer portal with customer communications controlled by Stripe Billing automations. You create and manage automations in the Dashboard.
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Customer portal features
A customer portal allows your customers to self-manage their payment details, invoices, and subscriptions in one place.
See what your customers can do in the customer portal | Key customer portal features
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Feature | Description |
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Customer management | Offer your customers a self-serve method to:
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Cancellation deflection | Reduce churn by offering your customers a coupon when they try to cancel their subscription. Customers who cancel anyway can share why. You can collect those reasons through webhooks or Stripe Sigma. |
Interoperability | Use the portal with other Stripe products: |
Localization support | Automatically localize the portal based on your customers’ preferred language. To view a localized version of the portal, set your browser’s default language to the language you want to preview. See the full list of supported languages in the table below. |
Customized branding | Configure the portal to match your branding, including your icon, logo, colors, and business information. |
Payment methods | Manage payment methods to make it convenient for your customers to pay you. See the full list of supported payment methods. Read the payment methods guide to learn more. |
Invoice-only support | Yes. You don’t need to use subscriptions for the customer portal to be useful for your business and your customers. To preview invoicing management in the portal, complete the following step
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Language support | Languages supported by the customer portal
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Stripe Connect compatibility | The customer portal works with Stripe Connect. If you’re using the customer portal with Stripe Connect, make sure you configure the customer portal for the platform instead of a connected account. |
Ephemeral sessions | Portal sessions are temporary. New portal sessions expire after a 5 minute period. If a customer uses it within that time period, the session expires within 1 hour of the most recent activity. |
Customer portal limitations
The customer portal has the following limitations:
If subscriptions use any of the following, customers can only cancel them in the portal (they can’t update such subscriptions):
- Multiple products
- Usage-based billing
- Sending invoices for collection. Read more about the
collection_
parameter. If you use the Dashboard to create the subscription, you make this selection in the Payment method section.method - Unsupported payment methods
Customers can’t update or cancel subscriptions that currently have an update scheduled with a subscription schedule.
Customers can only modify subscriptions if the new price has the same tax behavior as the initial price. Additionally, no modifications are allowed if the tax behavior is
unspecified
, even if the tax behavior of the new price isunspecified
. Learn more about thetax_
parameter and how it relates to subscriptions.behavior The portal doesn’t display the payment method section if the portal doesn’t support the customer’s default payment method.
Customers can’t define multiple Prices with the same
product
andrecurring.
values. For example, to offer a magazine for 4.00 USD per month regular price and 3.00 USD per month for students, create a separate student magazine Product version.interval Customer modifications to a
trialing
subscription will end the free trial and create an invoice for immediate payment.When you allow customers to switch plans, you can specify a maximum of 10 products for them to choose from.
Supported payment methods
Payment method | Description | Currencies | Merchant Country | Limitations |
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ACH Direct Debit (us_ ) | Stripe users can receive bank transfers directly from customers. | USD | US | None |
Amazon Pay (amazon_ ) | Amazon Pay is a wallet payment method that lets your customers check out the same way as on Amazon.com. | USD | US | None |
AU BECS Debit (au_ ) | Bulk Electronic Clearing System (BECS) Direct Debit payments from customers with an Australian bank account. | AUD | AUS | None |
Boleto (boleto ) | Boleto is a popular payment method in Brazil where customers pay by using a Boleto voucher with a generated number. | BRL | BR | You must have a Brazilian Stripe account to accept Boleto from your customers. |
Cards (card ) | Cards, icluding Apple Pay and Google Pay, are one of the most popular ways to pay online, with broad global reach. There are different types of cards and several steps in the process. | Most currencies | Most locations | None |
Cash App Pay (cashapp ) | Cash App is a popular consumer app in the US that allows customers to bank, invest, send, and receive money using their digital wallet. | USD | US | None |
Link (link ) | Link saves and autofills payment and shipping information for your customers so they don’t need to enter payment details manually. | Most currencies | Most locations | None |
PayPal (paypal ) | PayPal is a payment method that enables customers in any country to pay using their PayPal account. | Most currencies | Europe | Requires approval |
Pre-authorized debits (acss_ ) | PADs are a low-cost, high volume batch processing network for financial transactions in Canada. | CAD, USD | CA, US | None |
SEPA direct debit (sepa_ ) | The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is an initiative of the European Union to simplify payments within and across member countries. | EUR | AU, CA, Europe, HK, JP, MX, NZ, SG, US | None |
UK BACS Debit (uk_ ) | Bacs Direct Debit is a reusable, delayed notification payment method available to bank account holders from the United Kingdom. | GBP | UK | You must have a UK Stripe account and a UK bank account to accept UK BACS Debit from your customers. |
Other hosted resources to use with the customer portal
Stripe offers multiple prebuilt resources so you can bill your customers quickly and maximize revenue retention and recovery.