Supported Organization setupsPublic preview

Organizations support the following account setups: multiple standalone accounts, platforms, and connected accounts.

Organizations versus Connect platforms

Organizations and Connect platforms serve distinct purposes. Connect models the relationship between a business and third parties. Shopify, for example, is a platform that extends its Stripe integration to a separately owned entity, Allbirds, as a connected account. A Connect platform is itself an account—it processes payments and has balances, customers, subscriptions, and more.

An organization, by contrast, isn’t an account in that it doesn’t conduct its own business through Stripe. It lets users create a multi-faceted business by unifying multiple accounts that exist under common ownership. Importantly, as an account, a Connect platform can belong to an organization. For example, Shopify might have separate Connect platforms operating in different global regions, all of which are accounts within the Shopify organization.

Multiple standalone accounts

It’s common to manage multiple Stripe accounts that represent different business lines, countries of operation, legal entities, and acquisitions.

After you add these accounts to an organization, you can search and download consolidated reports across your accounts without any changes to your Stripe integration. After you create an organization, you can add new business lines or add existing accounts.

Multiple platform accounts

If you have several Connect platforms that correspond to different countries of operation or business lines, you can add them to an organization.

After you add your platforms to an organization, you can search for connected accounts and data within a specific platform or across all your platforms.

Multiple connected accounts under a Connect platform

In certain cases, you might own multiple connected accounts connected to the same platform. This commonly occurs in franchise groups where several franchises are under common ownership.

You can add your connected accounts to an organization, independent of their platform. This allows you to use the unified search and reporting across your accounts.

Multiple business lines represented as connected accounts

In some cases, you might represent multiple business lines as a platform with connected accounts, even though your business isn’t a traditional platform or marketplace. This is common if you want to consolidate payment integrations or clone payment methods stored in the platform to connected accounts.

By creating an organization that encompasses the platform and connected accounts, you can use unified search and reporting across all the accounts without impacting your payment integrations.