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Payments
Finance automation
Platforms and marketplaces
Money management
Overview
Billing
Tax
Reporting
Data
Startup incorporation

Revenue and finance automation

Use Stripe to automate the revenue lifecycle of your business.

Acquire customers, collect revenue, close your books, and automate sales taxes

Stripe’s tools integrate with your existing systems, automate your revenue and finance processes, and grow your business.

Get started with Stripe Billing

Grow your business with billing

Use Stripe Billing to accept recurring payments, retain revenue, and automate workflows for pricing models that include flat rate and usage-based.

Subscriptions
Ideal for:Collecting recurring payments, billing customersHow it works:Create usage-based or sales-negotiated subscriptions to charge customers on a recurring schedule.
Create a subscription
Invoices
Ideal for:Sending an invoice to specific customerHow it works:Stripe emails your customer an invoice and a link they can use to pay the invoice online.
Create an invoice
Payment Links
Ideal for:Selling products without a websiteHow it works:Create a subscription link in the Dashboard and share it with your customers.
Create a payment link

Calculate, collect, and file sales tax and VAT automatically

Stripe Tax enables compliance automatically by collecting tax and notifying you about locales where your business needs to register and pay tax. It also automatically generates the reports you need to file.

Set up Stripe Tax
Configure your business and product information in the Dashboard to enable automatic tax calculation.
Know where to register
Monitor your tax obligations in the Dashboard, including where you’ve met the threshold to register and where you’re approaching it.
Easy file reporting
Learn about your reporting options on Stripe.

Close your books quickly and accurately

Reduce the cost and risk of manual financial processes with accurate, automated revenue accounting.

Revenue recognition
Automate your accrual accounting process to meet ASC 606 and IFRS 15 compliance.
Bank reconciliation
Automate the process of comparing financial records to close your books.

All of your data in one place

Get real-time business insights that empower teams to make faster, reliable decisions.

Create custom reports
Use Sigma to generate reports from the Dashboard about charges, refunds, disputes, and other critical operational and finance metrics.
Sync Stripe data to a data warehouse
Use Data Pipeline to export your Stripe data to Snowflake or Amazon Redshift.
Import external data into Stripe
Automatically import and map external data from other sources with no-code connectors.

Incorporate your company

Stripe Atlas incorporates your company in Delaware, gets your company tax ID (EIN) from the IRS, issues founders equity, and files your 83(b) election. After incorporating, you can open a business bank account, charge customers using Stripe payments, and access discounts on tools for founders.

How to incorporate your company

Learn what you need to get started with Atlas.

Company types

Use Atlas to form either a Delaware Limited Liability Company (LLC) or a Delaware C corporation.

Section 83(b) elections

Learn about common Section 83(b) considerations.

Billing
  • Pricing models
  • Acquire new customers
  • Bill and collect payments
  • Recover and retain revenue
  • Subscription schedules
Tax
  • Calculate and collect tax
  • Monitor your tax thresholds
  • Locations Stripe calculates tax
  • Validate Tax IDs
  • Report and file tax
Reporting
  • Recognize revenue
  • Reports
  • Automated reconciliation
  • Growth and churn metrics
Data
  • Sync to a data warehouse
  • Save frequently-used queries
  • Import external data
  • Prebuilt query templates
  • Write custom reports
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