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 the same 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.

Multiple standalone accounts representing different business lines

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.

Organization with multiple accounts representing different business lines

Multiple platform accounts

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

Multiple standalone platform accounts representing different business lines, each with connected accounts

After you add your platforms to an organization, you can search for connected accounts under all your platforms, as well as data within each platform account.

Organization with multiple platform accounts representing different business lines, each with connected accounts

Multiple connected accounts under a Connect platform

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

Multiple connected accounts (Acme Dealer of Seattle and Acme Dealer of Tacoma) that belong to the same owner and under a platform

Even though your connected accounts are under a platform, you can still add them to an organization. This allows you to use the unified search and reporting across your accounts.

Organization (Acme Dealer Group) with multiple connected accounts (Acme Dealer of Seattle and Acme Dealer of Tacoma) under common ownership

Multiple business lines represented as connected accounts

In some cases, you might have represented different business lines as connected accounts under one platform account, 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.

A platform account and multiple connected accounts, each representing different business lines

You can create an organization that encompasses the platform account and connected accounts so that your team can benefit from unified search and reporting across all the accounts, without impacting your payment integrations.

Organization with a platform account and multiple connected accounts, representing different business lines